Barbo wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2023 11:30 pm Ran the riding mower over a stump and now I gotta replace the whole deck. Thanks Obama.

Jon

Might be time for a cognitive ability check-up. It's Brandon now, no?

Memorize these five things in this order and repeat back: money, bitches, drank, blunt, 'Rari.

penningtron wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:30 am ^ Awesome! Even if it does have hair metal overtones.

Yeah. Unfortunately, someone has been sending in non-stop requests for Extreme.

At least it’s only every fifth song or so, with all of the other songs being requested by others.

And at least it isn’t “modern country”.

I don't know why, but someone has installed this sculpture in the middle of a field on the edge of our small town. It's pretty cool, the dog does not quite know what to make of it. I guess this thing has been all over. Now its here.

"The Awakening" by Seward Johnson

Past couple of days:

1) Parking ticket for being in a street cleaning zone in front of my house. The machine already had come past, twice, and I moved my car to the side for the next day's cleaning. Wait 20 minutes, no parking cop. Hop in shower. Get out of shower and lady is giving me a ticket. "The sign says 10-12." "Yes but I waited until he passed, twice, I was very careful." "I believe you, but we don't know when the cleaner came by."

There's this thing called a cell phone, that can literally track fucking anything, with pretty good accuracy, except when it comes to ballot harvesters, it's been said, then they're not so accurate.

LA just needs money because so many people here don't pay enough (or any) taxes.

2) Parking downtown. Private lot. Pay my $20 for 4 hours (certain neighborhoods just cannot be trusted after dark). Get back to the car and there's a ticket. I was 30 minutes over. Ticket, at a *private* lot is $63. Ahahahahahaha. Fuck you. It was $24 for a whole day. I wrote a check for $4 and mailed it, with a note that says I expect the ticket discharged and a receipt sent to my email. We'll see. I'm gonna hound these fucks until I get a receipt.

3) Drove to get some shoes and in one neighborhood there's a new traffic circle with motherfucking Stop signs at all four corners. WTFF.

4) Was trying to type "natty" into a wine related text and accidentally typed matty, and auto-correct took care of it. It's the end of the world.

5) Also, what's this bullshit about people retracting bids and not paying on eBay all willy-nilly. Are there no consequences for these now, other than my ass not getting paid? Back in my day, you bid, you bought, or there were consequences (bad feedback).

enframed wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:48 am 5) Also, what's this bullshit about people retracting bids and not paying on eBay all willy-nilly. Are there no consequences for these now, other than my ass not getting paid? Back in my day, you bid, you bought, or there were consequences (bad feedback).

I've had a rash of unpaying buyers on ebay lately. They'll make an offer, I'll accept, they they ghost out and I'm stuck waiting for 3 days before I can relist.

jfv wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:37 am

penningtron wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:30 am ^ Awesome! Even if it does have hair metal overtones.

Yeah. Unfortunately, someone has been sending in non-stop requests for Extreme.

At least it’s only every fifth song or so, with all of the other songs being requested by others.

And at least it isn’t “modern country”.

Now Crüe.

Trying to remain optimistic.

The worst part is half the songs, they cheat and play on the computer (not on vinyl) with the accompanying video on a big screen. So I have to see the fucking hair metal bands too.

jfv wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:12 am

jfv wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:37 am

penningtron wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:30 am ^ Awesome! Even if it does have hair metal overtones.

Yeah. Unfortunately, someone has been sending in non-stop requests for Extreme.

At least it’s only every fifth song or so, with all of the other songs being requested by others.

And at least it isn’t “modern country”.

Now Crüe.

Trying to remain optimistic.

The worst part is half the songs, they cheat and play on the computer (not on vinyl) with the accompanying video on a big screen. So I have to see the fucking hair metal bands too.

"Vinyl bar" playing music not from vinyl is always a disappointment. Happens more often than I'd appreciate. I basically avoid those places now.

Nate Dort wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:11 am

enframed wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:48 am 5) Also, what's this bullshit about people retracting bids and not paying on eBay all willy-nilly. Are there no consequences for these now, other than my ass not getting paid? Back in my day, you bid, you bought, or there were consequences (bad feedback).

I've had a rash of unpaying buyers on ebay lately. They'll make an offer, I'll accept, they they ghost out and I'm stuck waiting for 3 days before I can relist.

It's ridiculous. IIRC, one used to be able to make an offer to the next highest bidder, but it appears that is no longer an option?

motorbike guy wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:45 am I don't know why, but someone has installed this sculpture in the middle of a field on the edge of our small town. It's pretty cool, the dog does not quite know what to make of it. I guess this thing has been all over. Now its here.

"The Awakening" by Seward Johnson

That used to be in DC. Are there multiple casts of this sculpture? My daughter used to climb all over it.

jfv wrote: Fri Apr 21, 2023 7:25 am

When I think of hard rock and heavy metal, the first thing that comes to mind is Woodstock