I'm also getting much better at playing dead, but I'm tryin' to put off "expert status" on that one for a while - 58 is 'way too young to
Holy moly, I'm lucky just to grasp guitar a bit. That long, huh? I started picking up a guitar when I was sixteen. Played many years pro, but many years semi retired
Ha! whatever that means!
Well, I wish I could say it's beer thirty. But I quit drinking 3 years, 5 months, 3 weeks 4 days 2 hours and 16 minutes ago. Man would I love a cold beer, but
nooooooooooooooooooooo!!! My grapefruit juice and Mountain Dew serves me fine. Like Hank Jr. says, "I drink it by the gallon" Its what I used to quit alcohol. Amongst others.
Time to get off the roof, which I didn't finish as planned. The knees are worse than my playing fingers. I remembered my vehicle permit was expiring today, so had to go to DMV. Now let me tell you something. What a breeze. In California, I had to go to the smog check 7 times on my ole 79 Chevy stepside 350. Never did get it smogged cause of one thing or other that cost mucho bucks. Runs perfect. No smog certificate, no registration. They just raised the frigging fees THREE TIMES what they were last year. ($210 + smog + fixing=no drive)
Adios mofo's. The fee to register it here in Oregon is $30 plus another $30 for a plate. And thats for 2 frigging years. YEA!
But I gotta say, going to DMV here in Coos Bay can be a real interesting place to catch an eyefull of the locals. Today was no exception. As I pulled into the parking lot
a gal was climbing down a ladder on a 4 wheel drive, that had to of been 5' off the ground. It was about a '90 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL 4 door. Now thats 4 wheelin in style!
Unfucking believable. Only in Oregon.
When I stayed in a motel over in North Bend, on Sat. nights, I was amused by the quantity of 4 wheel drive trucks barreling through town (Hiway 101) at 50 mph, filled with whooping and hollering young guys, who sounded like cowboys who've been out on the range for 40 days and hadn't seen a woman in 6 months. Funny. Different world over here.
Actually, this roof is more time consuming than anticipated. And so is the silicone consumption. Remember, this is a temporary fix, but 22 tubes is NOT CHEAP. Ha!
Money dump. Oh well! I'll do it right next year.
Well gents, not much else to report on the saga front. Tonight I'll get my email/host crap configured hopefully and start punching in the numbers to CAD. This house is really structurally sound, but a lot stuff is hidden, and the only way to make sence of it is to draw it to scale and overlay the two floors, slabs, roofs, beams etc untill I see what lines up with what. Like for instance, half the room I'm in now, which will temporarily house my studio gear, is suspended over a porch. Its on the second floor. The floor joists are covered below by a vinyl soffit covering, which at the end of the room are supported by a 6x8 beam. The joists then cantelever past the beam for 3 ft, which provides joists for a deck, outside of a sliding glass door at the end of the studio.
Now since I can remove the vinyl soffet, it dawned on me, since my console legs die into the floor as cable chases, I can access the cables from underneith, to feed them along the joists, to the transport rack at the rear of the room. Perfect. OK, I'm done rambling. Got no one else to talk to but my wife and she doesn't want to hear this shit, so I guess that leaves you guys to talk to.
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