Prostheta 2,231 Posted October 24, 2020 Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 Is that an Ibanez case? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crusader 194 Posted October 24, 2020 Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 10 minutes ago, Prostheta said: Is that an Ibanez case? Gatorade I think 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MiKro 537 Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 So I have procrastinated for quite awhile on replacing the AC unit in the shop./garage. I have fixed it numerous times over the years. I don't have any heat anymore as the space heaters I had been using began having electrical issues. LOL Now it is cold and my procrastination mode has turned to Hurry up mode, do something quick dumbass. LOL. So instead of replacing the old window style AC unit with a Window type AC/heat unit. I just ordered a split AC/Heat pump unit for the shop. Oh my, this should be fun, maybe? Hopefully next week I will be back up and not freezing my butt off. MK Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bizman62 975 Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 34 minutes ago, MiKro said: Now it is cold At first I was like "wut???" but apparently there's now frost in some parts of Texas. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RonMay 129 Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 The panhandle is currently experiencing an ice storm with probably snow tomorrow too. For them, winter is here big time. For me not so much. Currently it's 91f, but that will change by tomorrow and drop down to maybe as low as low as 59f at 5am but warm up to the 60s. Ron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MiKro 537 Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 38 minutes ago, Bizman62 said: At first I was like "wut???" but apparently there's now frost in some parts of Texas. We get ice storms and some snow as well . It's currently 42*f here and raining. LOL mk 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ScottR 3,269 Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 It has been said that Texas is big. It's about 1100 miles from where Ron lives and the northern border in the panhandle....and the panhandle is 3500' higher in elevation. I recall hitting 100f in McAllen one February day, and the panhandle will have a few days that hover around zero degrees F. But boys, Finland is in the neighborhood of 3000 miles further north of the panhandle. We ain't never going to convince our friends up there that we know what cold is. 'Course, they have no idea what hot is..... SR 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MiKro 537 Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 2 hours ago, ScottR said: It has been said that Texas is big. It's about 1100 miles from where Ron lives and the northern border in the panhandle....and the panhandle is 3500' higher in elevation. I recall hitting 100f in McAllen one February day, and the panhandle will have a few days that hover around zero degrees F. But boys, Finland is in the neighborhood of 3000 miles further north of the panhandle. We ain't never going to convince our friends up there that we know what cold is. 'Course, they have no idea what hot is..... SR Yep and I am 500+ miles or approx 800+ kilometers North of Ron. Our windchill temp here is 1* C today. There is ice and freezing rain about 150 miles West of me. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bizman62 975 Posted October 27, 2020 Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 12 hours ago, ScottR said: It has been said that Texas is big. Meh, it's only twice the area of Finland... We used to be that big but then the Swedes left us and we got even bigger, fairly twice the size of the USA. But then we sold Alaska and later we got rid of Russia as well. The current size has plenty enough space for all of us. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Prostheta 2,231 Posted October 27, 2020 Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 We got rid of them, but they flipped the chessboard and took Karelia on the way out. FFS 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MiKro 537 Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 I got up this morning to find a possum at the bottom of the pool. Man you would think they could swim and find the step to get out? Called the city and they came got it out and hauled away. Now I know what the cat was going nuts about last night. MK 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Prostheta 2,231 Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 We'd been having a discussion "behind the scenes" with Melvyn a few weeks back about the imminent release of the book, however things went quiet. I understand this is not looking good, but yes, Melvyn does have that character of "levity resisting the pull of gravity". 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MiKro 537 Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 4 minutes ago, Prostheta said: We'd been having a discussion "behind the scenes" with Melvyn a few weeks back about the imminent release of the book, however things went quiet. I understand this is not looking good, but yes, Melvyn does have that character of "levity resisting the pull of gravity". I know Carl, Melvyn is a one of kind person. I know how much he wants to finish the book. I am afraid it may not happen as he planned. He is getting to the point that even a short text message is about all he can muster now. He is putting all of his guitars up for sale as of today. He has been an inspiration through his books for so many over the years. Mike. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Prostheta 2,231 Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 Man, that's rough. He's given so much inspiration and knowledge to people first hand, second hand and so forth over the years though. The man's got a lot to be proud of having achieved. I really hope he manages to get things into place how he wants them to be. Morphine takes absolutely everything out of you. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
komodo 801 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 I started building in high school after seeing another guy trying to unsuccessfully make a guitar. Not long after building #1, I ran across Melvyn's book. It fired up my imagination as much as the first D&D hardcover books. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Prostheta 2,231 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 I fumbled around with bits of knowledge that I'd gleaned from here and there - some pretty faulty as it turned out - before Melvyn's book brought it together, and it started to click. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bizman62 975 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 It's a shame the Hiscock books haven't been translated! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Prostheta 2,231 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 Just drink beer until it makes itself clear. Like most things. Apply a bit of "work". *crack* "Just working dear" 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ADFinlayson 861 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 England in full lockdown again I'm now feeling rather lucky my house sold when it did! I feel no sympathy for the scumbag developers behind me that just put all their flats on the market 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Prostheta 2,231 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 Extending furlough pay is one thing, but not supporting businesses isn't enough. Some degree of top down rather than sticking a plaster on bottom up, right? My sister is runs a store in the UK (part, anyway) and employees get a break but the businesses don't. Small businesses are their own employees and need to put food on the table themselves. Seriously, what the actual fuck. It's not like small business owners are greedy corpo scum. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ADFinlayson 861 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 2 minutes ago, Prostheta said: Extending furlough pay is one thing, but not supporting businesses isn't enough. Some degree of top down rather than sticking a plaster on bottom up, right? My sister is runs a store in the UK (part, anyway) and employees get a break but the businesses don't. Small businesses are their own employees and need to put food on the table themselves. Seriously, what the actual fuck. It's not like small business owners are greedy corpo scum. small businesses have been given a lot of grants and most small business are not paying any business rates at the moment. People who are running small ltd companies are generally employees of the company therefore a good chunk of their salaries can be claimed through furlough but they can still do their managerial duties as shareholder/md etc. Self employed people working as sole traders have been able to claim a large chunk of salary based on their previous tax returns too. Obviously the schemes don't work for everyone, there are those that fell through the cracks, but it's impossible to save every job without doing some kind of universal basic income which most people are against and It's still a much better set of schemes that bailing out the banks like they did in 2009 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ADFinlayson 861 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 and they announced today that they were extending furlough at least up until then end of the new lockdown. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Prostheta 2,231 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 I see. I hope the intention is good and comes to more than words. Everybody is hurting and everybody needs to put food on the table. I have little confidence in incompetent suckups like bojo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RonMay 129 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 @ADFinlayson, did they say how long the lock down is going to be? The WHO said that the lock downs were bad, didn't they? Ron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ADFinlayson 861 Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 37 minutes ago, Prostheta said: I see. I hope the intention is good and comes to more than words. Everybody is hurting and everybody needs to put food on the table. I have little confidence in incompetent suckups like bojo. The schemes I mentioned above are schemes that have been in place since the start of the pandemic, they're not just talk. Bojo, or Bodge as I call him, is a libertarian, no way he want's to lock the country down but I struggle to understand the rationale some times - The guy has a massive 80 seat majority and can do anything he wants to do as PM but he constantly cow tows to the people that will never vote for him. The guy has a massive open goal in front of him but he keeps turning round to kick the ball at his own net. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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