Keyan Farlander Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 July the Fourth be with you! Wait, I think I'm doing it wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 had an awesome fourth of july, and i didn't even have alcohol, didn't even crave it like i do every friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 5, 2014 Author Share Posted July 5, 2014 I had a very boring 4th. I did nothing of note. It was perfect, in other words. I needed a whole day of nothing. Of course, having the outside edge of a hurricane out the door didn't hurt at keeping me home either... Haven't started sorting through this room full of guitars yet. Not quite ready for that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Room full of guitars to sort = problem you'd want to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 5, 2014 Author Share Posted July 5, 2014 Kinda... yes and no. I'm not at all happy about the circumstances that brought them here. And I really don't have space for everything, so I can't keep most of them. But I want to do good with these, to honor my dad's legacy... get them into the hands of the next generation of great jazz players who might not be able to afford a fantastic instrument, but who play their asses off. I don't think I can just crassly auction them all off to the highest bidder just to make a profit... but then there's always my dad's continuing care and bills to contend with. So it's confusing as to what to do... Dad does have a pretty good little nest egg of his own in the bank, and that shouldn't be depleted immediately. I celebrated the 4th on the 3rd this year. Went down to Plymouth for the big celebrations they have there after work that afternoon. Caught up with my beekeeping lady friend. There's a selfie we took together over on FB... We were at the bonfire on the beach. We stopped in to visit a friend of hers in the neighborhood who is a baker... and a big time stoner. Without thinking about it I took a chocolate she offered us. After eating it I thought... "Oh, waitaminnit..." I haven't been high since 1999... it hit me hard. It was an interesting drive back home that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Quick, man...put on the Beatles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 5, 2014 Author Share Posted July 5, 2014 Oh, and something else I learned yesterday... If you have really elderly instruments, like Gibsons and Martins from the 20's and 30's, that you dragged out from under your father's trailer in Florida in nasty, moldy conditions, and get them to your house, and they still smell of mildew... It's not a great idea to spray them down with Lysol... old lacquer finishes really don't get along with it. Now I have several ancient instruments that may no longer be mildewed... but have giant white streaks all over them. Yes... I am a moron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I once tried to sharpen a Japanese sword from WW2. Me = moron also. Day late, but here: (This BBCode requires its accompanying plugin to work properly.) Yif! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 water park was fun today, hung out with my friends all day, played pool at the bar managed not to drink...had 1 of those twisted iced teas at my friends place, it made me feel weird, so at least that tells me my medication is working. it's nice coming home and not feeling wasted...think i'll stay on this stuff for a while or at least til i get a car and a job. trying to be positive, because my bank account is starting to look low. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 applying for jobs today...retail here we go again. Applied at.. Target Lowes Home Depot Staples I really want the job at either Staples or Target...Staples would be easier though since i wouldn't have to rely too much on the bus to get there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildstar Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 This should make Ed (among others here) happy: Pink Floyd will release a new album, their first studio album since The Division Bell 20 years ago, in October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Rabbit Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Rogue15, we need a dishwasher, and maybe a cook. The diner I work at is HOPPING. Now is when we either do good and build a successful business or f*ck up everyone's food and ensure that they don't come back. Unfortunately, one of the cooks is a douchebag who seems to be bent on doing the second thing. When I was looking for work, I applied to a lot of places online and dropped my resume off in person at only one...and it turned out to be the one that hired me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 I just ordered some new tubes for my Vox AC30 (which I shouldn't even have, really). These things all seem to be made in China and Russia now, and not nearly as well as they used to be. Can't really find much of the old Mullard stock anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 Yeah, the best you can hope for in American or European is New Old Stock... and those will be expensive, and by this point you are looking at 3rd and 4th string pickovers. Groove Tubes does a pretty good job of sorting through the old and current stocks, and only selling the decent ones. But yeah, only 2 tube factories left, and demand is drying up, and environmental concerns will eventually put those under too. Get ready for the age of all-digital modelling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 no calls back yet about any of the places i applied at. my computer has a virus, i'm currently in safe mode with networking available trying to fix it. letting malwarebytes go to work, then it'll be spybot and avg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Yeah, the best you can hope for in American or European is New Old Stock... and those will be expensive, and by this point you are looking at 3rd and 4th string pickovers. Groove Tubes does a pretty good job of sorting through the old and current stocks, and only selling the decent ones. I wound up getting them from watfordvalves.com - they have their own range called Harma, which seem to be rebranded versions of other things, carefully selected and tested. That seems to be the best you can do now. But yeah, only 2 tube factories left, and demand is drying up, and environmental concerns will eventually put those under too. Get ready for the age of all-digital modelling. It's weird - real analog synths seem to be having something of a revival. Moog has the Minimoog Voyager, which is a beauty, Dave Smith is making some nice stuff, and Tom Oberheim is selling new versions of the SEM, Two Voice, and others. I probably mentioned it before, but Korg is supposedly releasing a faithful recreation of the ARP Odyssey soon. The thing is, this probably doesn't make much difference in a recording. There is some really nice virtual analog stuff out there, hardware and software both. But when it comes to programming and PLAYING it, nothing comes close to the real thing. It's the same thing with guitars. There are some nice digital modelling amps out there, and I have no doubt I could be fooled on a recording easily. And I'm glad they exist for the convenience they afford. But it just doesn't compare to playing the real thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted July 8, 2014 Author Share Posted July 8, 2014 Yeah, I'm planning on keeping the Fender Vibroverb that came in my dad's stuff... but it will need to be cleaned up and re-tubed. I'll be going through the same struggle. Last time I re-tubed an old amp, some of the tubes I needed simply weren't available, and one of my old amps now has a solid-state rectifier circuit. I met the areas Martin-authorized repair tech today at work. Gonna get in touch with him about restoring this old archtop, and maybe having a look at the D35 with the cracked top that goes back to the 60's or 70's. I've been soaking these things in furniture polish all day for the last 3 or 4, and the white stains from the Lysol damage has all but vanished. Chewed up 4 cans of polish though... but if the finish on these instruments can be saved, it will be worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 well that took all but 7 hours. stupid trojan viruses and malware. grrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_Kinnison Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I got mad at my wife she kept using internet exploder, and not Chrome/firefox/safari etc. she kept complaining that her computer was slow. Finally after a visit to the shop she decided to switch. one problem I do have my wife is that she is very passive agressive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 and the problem still persists. out of ideas. ieplorer.exe runs 3 instances on processes in task manager, i close them out but they return...1 of them takes up roughly 60-100% CPU which causes a huge slowdown to where i can't do a damn thing. AVG is reporting a .dll file is infected but won't remove it yet keeps popping up so i have to disable that...i dont know what else to do, i ran malwarebytes and it found a bunch of infected files and supposedly quarantined them and spybot supposedly did the same thing, but i'm not seeing a difference.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Format and reinstall. That would take way less than 7 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 ehhhh no. that would actually take even longer considering i don't have a disc or any knowledge on reinstalling the whole OS, etc. hitmanpro took care of the trojan virus i had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Jones Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Everyone in here should convince Zoom to get a Dotanuki. I mean, yeah. ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 ran some more scans and stuff with AVG, got my pc optimized and it's so much faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 So.... I've decided to start knocking some **** off the ol' bucket list. Nothing too fancy or grand, because most of those involve passports and a ton of money that I don't have. Air fare is expensive, especially across the Atlantic or the Pacific. Number 5 on the bucket list is "Learn to play the Violin so people don't run in fear of the hideous noise." ... Anyone have an violin they no longer use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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