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  1. Oh, I forgot to mention that I got a frantic phone call yesterday that her debit card was being used in California with a charge of $211.  "I DIDN'T MAKE THAT PURCHASE."  Well, apparently the last time she bought printer ink at Office Depot, she let them sell her some kind of program where they automatically charge you and send you ink on a 'regular basis'.  Guess what she didn't remember?       So, our credit union cancelled her debit card, are sending her another one (that won't get here until after she leaves), and have opened a dispute with Office Depot for something she fucking set up.  When she initially told me about the "Ink Program", I told her to cancel it.  We will buy ink on an as-needed basis.  Guess what she didn't do.  

    But, she leaves tomorrow......did I mention that?  For one glorious month.  

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  2. This should probably be filed under "Women are horrible at telling stories/leaving messages/etc"

    My wife is going on a road trip to New England to see friends, relatives and general sight seeing.  One glorious month of solitude for Hulla.  "Where is the downside" you ask?  Great question.

    She is calling all of her credit card companies to let them know she is going to be travelling and so they don't flag the cards for fraud.   I have heard her have 4 different conversations with the credit card people.  Now, keep in mind that she is deaf and uses a captioning phone...she can speak fine, but has to wait on the captioning to catch up so she can answer questions.  

    She has a road map out and is listing all of the states she may or may not drive through or visit.  i have heard, "well, I'm going to Boston to stay with my cousins", "I may go to Canada so I can see the Niagara Falls", I'm not going to New York City because I've already been there several times", "I may go to Canada..like Toronto...it that it?".   Four times, I've heard the same excruciating conversation, including how she "may or may not drive on I95 because it is closed due to the hurricane."    I'm not sure why she keeps listing Florida because when you leave Atlanta, GA headed for New England....I'm not how one would actually include Florida in your travel itinerary....but what do I know.  Oh, she also have two separate phone numbers for her cell phone since one of them handles a captioned call.  That also requires a lot of explanation.  Oh....we live on Moon Place.   "you know...like the sun and the moon."  

    Oh, they just upped her credit limit..."that is nice...in case my car breaks down because I'm driving on this trip."  

    I'm going to have a glorious month of no adult supervision......  Or as my buddy calls it, "Running with Scissors"  

     

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  3. 23 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I can't think of too many I'd put above this one (and I've posted their music before):

    "I imagine she could mention fleas and my body would begin to itch"

     

     

    "You double cross the T's and dot out all the eyes"

     

    I LOVE this record.  Was hoping you would mention it.  It is fantastic.  Also, about the same time, the Geardaddies released a great record.  Saw the Gunbunnies open for Toad The Wet Sprocket on the tour for that Gunbunnies record.  

  4. A relatively new guy I'm listening to is Damien Jurado.  His voice is strange, but his lyrics, combined with the overall vibe, are really interesting to me. 

     

    And Austin's own, Damon Bramblett.  (a happy tune but about being put to death on death row.  Kelly Willis did this at a prison concert...not realizing what it was about)

     

  5. Tbone, Love that chrome one black look.  Never seen that look before.  I  jave a friend who put Fralins in his 2003 Strat.  It has those early 2000s noiseless things in there.  They were horrible.  Really like what the Fralins did for that Strat.

     

  6. Most everything I bought in college.  Probably number one for me would be anything that Zeitgeist/Reivers did.  

    Also, just a few:  ANYTHING by Vigilantes of Love
    Adam Schmidt (LOVED this guy's power pop)
    Andrew Cash, Blue Rodeo, Grapes of Wrath (all great Canadian bands out at the same time)  
    Marti Jones

    VOL:  Great line:   "I got a little cauterized brain and a heart shot off at the knees" 

    Adam Schmidt:  BRILLIANT power pop

     

    Andrew Cash:  Produced by Don Dixon.

     

    Marti Jones, aka Mrs. Don Dixon

     

     

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  7. My niece wants an acoustic guitar. She already knows a few chords, and plays my Eastman whenever she comes over.
    I was going to get her the Yamaha FG720, but apparently it's been replaced by the FG800 (dreadnaught) or FS800 (orchestra).
    Any other suggestions for a playable beginner guitar?
    How old is your niece.
  8. 12 hours ago, CTC2 said:

    M2205358-front-xlarge.jpgBroke down over Labor Day sale time and picked up this Martin 000-15m. Remember if you ever want to buy something from Sweetwater to call them and ask for a better price.  They went down almost $200 from the advertised price. 

    Guitar plays nice and I am eager to see how it sounds once it opens up. 

    Beautiful.  I love the way Celery's has already developed a cool patena.  Isbell said he put his new Martin in front of some speakers and played hip hop everytime they left the house.  He also had an Ebow lying around so he laid it flat and just sat the Ebow on the neck and let it run.  

  9. We’ve only been in the area a short while and had agreed we’d not do anything major to the house until we decided how we liked living here.
    That  agreement was presumably forgotten  by one party..... but not I.  For now those plans go in the drawer......for now.. 
    Shit gets lost all of the time.
  10. Along the lines of the Eagles, John Prine's debut was strong as well.  Even if you just include Angel from Montgomery, Sam Stone, and Paradise.  And a bunch more classics.

     

    Bruce Robison's first one wasn't big by debut standards, but resulted in a bunch of hits by others:  Angry All The Time (Tim McGraw No.1); Travellin' Soldier (DIxie Chicks No. 1); Not Forgotten You and Take It All Out on You (Kelly Willis); Lonely Too (Included on Leeann Womack's "I Hope You Dance" album)

  11. I didn't take any pictures of the complete trainwreck I caused last night, but when you do stupid shit, you need to come clean.  I'm hulla and I'm a dipshit.

     

    Changed strings on an acoustic, so thought I would whip out the tele at the same time since it has locking tuners and is easy as fuck to restring.    Well, took off the low E, strung the new string through the back, through the peg, tightened it up, clipped the string and started tuning.  But the string kept stretching, and stretching, and stretching.  It usually winds about 1/4 the way around the peg, but I got 3 full wraps and it still wouldn't keep stretching.  

     

    You know those little metal eyelets on the back of string-through body guitars?  Well, that one had fallen off and when I ran the string through, I didn't notice it was gone, and I pulled that ball end almost completely through the body.  You couldn't even see it from the back of the guitar and I couldn't push it back out from the top.  I ended up having to take the bridge off and yank the ball-end through the top of the body.  Chipped a little bit of the top that I glued on.  It is mostly covered up by the bridge.

     

    Thanks for letting me share.  (Found a picture with the E still stuck in the guitar, after I removed the others strings so I could take the bridge off)

     

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  12. On 9/3/2018 at 3:52 PM, Grandioso said:

    And by the way, Roger Taylor is playing lights out drums WHILE singing fucking David Bowie's part. Can I get a fuckin' witness?

    I was going to comment on that.  Taylor never gets the credit he deserves....especially vocally.   

    One of my favorite Queen songs is "I'm In Love With My Car".  LOVE May's guitar work, but Roger's voice is perfect for this song.  

     

  13. My favorite electric to play is my Mexican made, Nashville tele (3 pickups/5 way switch)  I bought it at a used shop for $200.  Still had the sticker on the pickguard.  I have a guitar I paid 10x as much for but if I only had to pick one, the tele would be it.  $800 buck is a lot of fun to be had.  Like mentioned, since you have a Gibson, get a Mexican made Fender.  I can't keep the new names straight anymore.

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