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So I recorded a thing on my violin. It's pretty okay. Not the best mic quality. Here it is. c: I hope everyone's having a good Friday!

We are looking into buying a shipping container. We are going to have a decent roll off that box and into a jump line that heads down the property. It has a slight incline. Our property feels slightly huge. We close on July 29th. We rode to our property yesterday and we were back in the park in about 5 minutes. We are so close to the trails. I think I can be on trail in about 2 minutes from the new property

Arroz, enchiladas de pollo con salsa picante, y unos frijoles.

I cannot remember the last time I woke up this late. I heard everyone else get up around 6 and was going to get up then. I didn’t.

Sorry you're having trouble with the site today, and thank you for all you do to keep our little home here up and running. We appreciate all you do for this site.

Costco run after work. 10+lb beef brisket. Flat cut. You get what you get. Two large racks of pork spareribs. They will be smoked on Saturday with some red oak and hickory. I will make some creamy slaw with the cabbage I picked up at the farmers market. I can’t wait.

Yeah, I am not falling for that one again...

A song is made to take you wherever you end up going. <3 Thank you! Thank you!! I actively played and learned starting from 6th grade to when I was a Junior in High School. So about 5-6 years. Since then I play whenever I feel the urge, but that's probably only like once every few months at most. But if you add all that time up (which is silly because I haven't learned anything violin-y since High School) it's been 16 years of having my emotive friend around. I'm much more the type to enjoy slow and melodic over fast and technically difficult, so I'm not very "good" x). I feel like the conveyance of emotion (from both the player and the listener) is what instruments are for, and I'm biased specifically toward stringed instruments since they generally allow more control over that aspect.

mr. and brother are hiking La Luz trail up the west slope to the crest of Sandia Peak, and I’m picking them up around noon. Meanwhile, #2 son and I will hike some forest trails at about 10k on the east side of the mountain.

have a good one peeps hot here. I just brewed organic Mexican coffee from the local roaster. Damn good Beans were just roasted 4 days ago.

...and start helping her build one of these in her backyard?

If they wanted their loud pipes to save lives, wouldn’t it make more sense to point them forward so oncoming traffic and people at intersections could hear them coming better?

This. For me to wear pants that snug they have to have stretch in them, otherwise they do not fit my thighs. Most pants to fit my thighs need to be big enough that I can take them off without undoing them. Big thighs+small butt=good belt

It would be really nice to live somewhere where I couldn't hear cars or people or barking dogs and where lights on the horizon didn't dim the stars. But it's fucking cold there.

I will bring a tractor.

There are piles of decent motorcycle mufflers in scrap yards where their owners dropped them after to changing to straight pipes. The purr of a BMW seems to be lost on American ears.

off for 17 days

A long bike ride during the winter?

@Redfacedwalrus found the error and fixed the site. She is beyond awesome. All should be back to normal as it was before.

Joslyn my wife’s aide brought us some bling today to celebrate the forth. She brought us glasses and red white and blue necklaces. I’ll try to get my wife to wear them tomorrow for a photo.

47 years ago today While the shopping center is still there, the stores aren't My hair is about the same length today since last haircut was in Feb.

An Osprey was seen at Myrtle Beach. SC, carrying a 3 foot long fish! Witnesses identified it as a toothed, shark-like "ladyfish" though some said it may be a small shark!

From Ale Asylum in Madison, WI.

22 miles with 1994 feet of climbing, 1906 feet of descending, so I'm still 88 feet above ground. Was a nice ride, 2 hours and 44 minutes, I stopped for pictures ( cough, cough ) Heading up the road still heading up the road a high altitude bog at the top of the hill, high altitude is relative, slightly over 2700 feet Pitcher Plants in the bog

The quietness of a Wing always makes me chuckle. I don't want aloud bike, but I do enjoy a bit of a rumble. My 750 Honda Shadow had a nice take-off rumble.

You know what they say: “If it ain’t baroque don’t fix it”.

I'm not a fan of loud pipes. I like it when someone says....I can't put mufflers on the bike because it will choke off the motor. Than I tell them that all my race bikes have mufflers and they will out perform any bike with straight pipes. If loud pipes save lives I think we should pray for the BMW and Goldwing riders.

What part of " I think I have a line on something, though, I will let you know if it falls through! " did you not understand???

25 miles

No riding today but i did just get back from one of our fire towers which required hiking to a mountain top.

at the "official" elevation of hills? This one hill I have a phobia about. Turns out it's only 279'. WTF....when I'm riding it I'm sure it's 1500' how does this happen?

There she goes. Flying off the handle again.

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I will say this, every EVERY single person I personally know that has had a motorcycle has also had a motorcycle-caused hospitalization. What their stories have in common is usually "I was going too fast" or "I hit a (pothole, patch of sand, slippery spot)". I know some have said that they have had altercations with drivers, but the bulk of the actual accidents seem to come from overestimating ability to control the motorcycle under varying conditions. The loud thing is a dodge for having the mind of a 4 year-old from what I see. Anyway, when I am on a bike, I always act as though drivers can't see me. It is up to ME to be aware of THEM because all driver's minds are trained to first look for other car sized objects. Motorcyclists should do the same and stop the noise pollution and lame excuses.

Mine is quiet enough to hear the mechanicals over the wind noise. Stuff like the chain, the brake rotor buzz while braking, etc. https://youtu.be/CW0g10n5UsY

I will bring a stretcher.

Speaking about hair bands, you should see the collection of hair bands I have accumulated from all these granddaughters. We had a pool party last night, this morning I found three more hair bands.

After months at home, even the reticent tend to wax loquacious on the interwebs. Wholy carp. I pulled that off without referencing a spell chequer or a dictionary.

I'm going to see fireworks in as many places as possible, I'll take public transportation wherever I can. I will go to many bars and eat at crowded restaurants. During the day I will hang out at overcrowded beaches. This whole COVID thing is a hoax.

My Morning Jacket, Tame Impala, and these guys on this. It works well on her voice around 16-17:00

9:00 am

You're very welcome, sorry for the mess. I can't get in the admin section of the site, so I can't try to fix it. Need to wait for server angels.

Wash them first dammit. You don’t know where they’ve been. Put them on a baking sheet lined with wax paper or parchment. Freeze overnight. Remove and store in freezer bags until needed. If you put them in bags first they will freeze into graperocks that are useless.

It will definitely need streamers!

Yep, carry food and water. Stop only for gas. The doggy doo bags are cheaper and work better than gloves at the gas pumps.

Yes please. You are super awesome, thank you for offering. You're also super awesome. I turned off ImageMagick. I hear it processes images better, but it wrecked the site.

Intellect, wit and wisdom are your weapons, RS. And I don’t know many who are as well armed.

Just to make a long thread even longer, I thought I'd share the inspiration for this post. I bought french bread and as I put it into my trunk, the bag became unsealed and spilled a bunch of sesame seeds into the trunk. I hadn't even realized the bread was seeded because that store brand usually isn't , and a lady was blocking the container so I sort of had to sneak in to grab a loaf, and I never even thought to look at it . Then I was also lackadaisical when I bent over to drop the bags into the trunk - I never even thought that there would be a problem, and viola, my trunk is now full of rat-attracting sesame seeds! So moving along to the fastidious side, I did at least vacuum them up when I got home. I think aboot this a lot. Many times it pays to slow down just a tad and THINK aboot what you are doing. But usually we want to be more on ottopilot and operate oot of habit. A good example is when I almost smashed my thumb in the del Sol's trunk lid this summer because I closed it with my left hand right as I was pulling the key oot with my right. This is also an example of a bad design because the keyhole is less than an inch away from the trunk lid, but it was still my fault for not compensating for that bad design and being extra careful and not rushing. So the motto? Slow the eff down and think! This goes a little against human nature I think, because we want to be in the zone, the state of flow where you don't have to think, everything just comes naturally, so taking just that extra second or two seems like a pain. Oh, and from Merriam-Webster: fastidious adjective fas·tid·i·ous | \fa-ˈsti-dē-əs, fə-\ Definition of fastidious 1a : showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care fastidious attention to detail— Robert Evett b : reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude fastidious workmanship c : having high and often capricious standards : difficult to please critics … so fastidious that they can talk only to a small circle of initiates— Granville Hicks 2 : having complex nutritional requirements fastidious microorganisms 3 archaic : scornful