Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

I'm thinking that my resident barn black snake is gone, because I have a whole new family
of little friends hopping around in there with me. Frogs galore, geckos coming up to say hello, not scared of me one little bit.
I just worry about stepping on them.
Carrying on a conversation with a gecko is great fun.

With so many commercial weedkillers being used in our farm fields today, and those snakes are slithering through there, can't
be good for them. Like your dog getting sick from lawn treatments.
Snakes up in the mountains are probably doing fine...

 

[RoyJackson]

2017-10-14, 0654.

53 right now...high in the low 70's.

Plans are to do everything I put off last week...dump run, haircut and pick up that Ruger American Ranch rifle. I'm hoping to get to my buddy's camp to sight the rifle in, but he was pretty sick yesterday and might not be available.
Also, it's mowing time today, I think...I'll need to get some fuel too.

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning.
55 headed to 61. Heavy rainfall warning in effect. for today, tonite and tomorrow. Up to 2" coming.

I'm going back down south for work tomorrow and will be away for the next two weeks I think.

I am going to go 'head to head' with the fleet manager and then possibly with the equipment manager over their 'lack of good judgement' in putting rims on my truck that were rubbing on the tie rod ends and setting up a shake in the steer axle. The shop created the problem, then when I barked about the shake they charged time against the truck for 3 days and didn't fix it. I took it to a different mechanic and he found the problem in 15 minutes and he corrected it. It cost them $3543.oo CDN for two new tires (stock size,11.00R22.5 Michelins), 2 new rims again stock and two new tie rod ends.
We'll see what happens come Monday. Maybe I will be out of a job by Monday afternoon, but that is better than being dead thanks to a steer axle failure.

 

[PJSprog]

64°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 90° today. Front coming through tonight should push us back into the 60s for tomorrow.

Had to come into work for awhile this morning to help get some new product up and running for a new customer (Woods is redesigning their batwing mowers, and we're making the support frame parts).

 

[PJSprog]

Oh MAN you bought a Carvin?? Lucky Dog!!

I got the V3MC guitar combo amp. I've been wanting that thing for years. I've had an MB10 bass combo and 115MBE cabinet for many years now, and it's a great little amp. I've long been an Ampeg guy, because I worked there for 10 years and got a lot of free stuff (prototypes, leftovers, production samples, etc.). I've always liked the stuff Carvin was making, though, and they had a great business model selling direct from the factory. It's too bad the internal family turmoil destroyed that.

(stock photo from the internet)

 

[B7510HSD]

I got the V3MC guitar combo amp. I've been wanting that thing for years. I've had an MB10 bass combo and 115MBE cabinet for many years now, and it's a great little amp. I've long been an Ampeg guy, because I worked there for 10 years and got a lot of free stuff (prototypes, leftovers, production samples, etc.). I've always liked the stuff Carvin was making, though, and they had a great business model selling direct from the factory. It's too bad the internal family turmoil destroyed that.

(stock photo from the internet)
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Yes it is. Nice setup!

 

[daugen]

I've long been an Ampeg guy, because I worked there for 10 years

I bet most folks don't know who Ampeg is, but having owned a Radio Shack in the 80's, and selling some pretty low quality
Realistic brand guitar amps to budding musicians, I knew that Ampeg was the good stuff.
Welcome To Ampeg
I think I even sold something called a wawa pedal. When distortion was a cool thing.

It's neat that PJ and quite a few others have an electronics/IT background plus are musicians. The rest of us learn from you.

Part of the stock I inherited when I bought this tiny Radio Shack in a very small town was a whole range of tubes, tubes such as used in what is today the
highest end of audio. And tube checkers, had to have one of those. The guy who owned the business fixed tv's from the very beginning. Which I promptly gutted, doubled in size and
ran differently, but I had this very odd stuff that went up on the wall for clearance. And the word got out, all the techies in the Princeton-New Brunswick corridor of NJ would come in looking
for good deals. Including the whole box for ten bucks stuff. Boy did I see smiling guys going out. They actually knew what the parts were, the triacs and thermistors, and
if it wasn't current Radio Shack stock, out it went. I was never a musician so I never understood all the mixing boards, and there wasn't much demand for it.
But amplifiers? Those guitars needed to get plugged in somewhere. No more air guitar. Jimmy Hendrix II is in session. Thankfully they didn't test the equipment in the store.

I think I sold over a hundred pair of Infinity speakers to local families. They weren't used to that from the department store. Kenwood, Panasonic, Pioneer and Onkyo receivers, never did high end, no super fancy turntables. But still an adult toy store. I had been reading Stereo Review since I was 16, not for the music like PJ understands, but because I found the electronics fascinating. Led to building many Heathkit gizmos too. I wonder how many of us have built a Heathkit. Perhaps a dying art. But good to know when the big EMP goes off and nothing works.
You just know RNG has something already figured out...

now it really is time to get to work. Enjoy your day.

 

[wngsprd]

62 cloudy mist going to 75 with some sun promised.

Ron, hope you and your wife had a special anniversary.

Ed, hope you mom is improving.

Don, we've probably had our usual snake visitors this year, frequent blacks, a garter, a green, an earth snake, hognose, ringed-neck snake...but haven't seen any copperheads back in the woods for maybe the last 10 years...before that would see one every summer.

Changed the oil in the Tundra yesterday...no more freebies from the dealer...the skid plate went back on much more easily than the first time I changed the oil. I was so happy...funny how a small victory like that can really make my day.

Went to the opening on the Folk Festival last evening...great Texas swing band from Austin, then a Dixie land band from New Orleans, some Zydeco, then a master blues guitarist. Going back for more.

 

[Buppies]

Dynaco amp preamp and tuner driving OHM F speakers no sound like it. Hated to see that amp burn up a long time ago. OHM Fs had a membrane flaw that got mine, now packed away in a closet just no time to listen to if they did work and as hearing has deteriorated over the years doubt I could pick up what they were capable of delivering

 

[B7510HSD]

I've long been an Ampeg guy, because I worked there for 10 years

I bet most folks don't know who Ampeg is, but having owned a Radio Shack in the 80's, and selling some pretty low quality
Realistic brand guitar amps to budding musicians, I knew that Ampeg was the good stuff.
Welcome To Ampeg
I think I even sold something called a wawa pedal. When distortion was a cool thing.

It's neat that PJ and quite a few others have an electronics/IT background plus are musicians. The rest of us learn from you.

Part of the stock I inherited when I bought this tiny Radio Shack in a very small town was a whole range of tubes, tubes such as used in what is today the
highest end of audio. And tube checkers, had to have one of those. The guy who owned the business fixed tv's from the very beginning. Which I promptly gutted, doubled in size and
ran differently, but I had this very odd stuff that went up on the wall for clearance. And the word got out, all the techies in the Princeton-New Brunswick corridor of NJ would come in looking
for good deals. Including the whole box for ten bucks stuff. Boy did I see smiling guys going out. They actually knew what the parts were, the triacs and thermistors, and
if it wasn't current Radio Shack stock, out it went. I was never a musician so I never understood all the mixing boards, and there wasn't much demand for it.
But amplifiers? Those guitars needed to get plugged in somewhere. No more air guitar. Jimmy Hendrix II is in session. Thankfully they didn't test the equipment in the store.

I think I sold over a hundred pair of Infinity speakers to local families. They weren't used to that from the department store. Kenwood, Panasonic, Pioneer and Onkyo receivers, never did high end, no super fancy turntables. But still an adult toy store. I had been reading Stereo Review since I was 16, not for the music like PJ understands, but because I found the electronics fascinating. Led to building many Heathkit gizmos too. I wonder how many of us have built a Heathkit. Perhaps a dying art. But good to know when the big EMP goes off and nothing works.
You just know RNG has something already figured out...

now it really is time to get to work. Enjoy your day.

I used to frequent Radio Shack for years buying electronics parts now most of the parts I use need to be ordered online as there are no stores that carry the parts needed. Seems everyone wants toys and cell phones now and when electronics break they throw them out and buy a new one.