penningtron wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 8:14 am

Dave N. wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 8:05 am

dontfeartheringo wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 7:57 am This is so dumb but the heart wants what the heart wants:

a .22 LR lever action Henry carbine and a Leupold 3x rimfire scope. There's something very zen-like about whacking cans at 50 meters over and over.

Also, shooting .22 is cheaper than eating M&Ms, so after the initial $500, the rest is the cheapest bullets on the planet and aluminum cans.

I took my great-grandpappy’s .38 out to the farm recently to do some target practice. My big takeaway- “How do people afford this shit?”

Maybe it's the rural america version of avocado toast..

Yeah, I think you're on to something there.

I have cheered up a bit since last week and am pleased to confirm that my dumb desires now amount to installing a new pool table at the local community centre, taking up judo (I am 5'9", approx 340lbs, with the flexibility and resilience of a breadstick), and somehow buying the Takamine TB10, a discontinued acoustic bass guitar with an approximation of a double bass bridge and endpin and, for some reason, an onboard tube preamp. It looks like this:

I used to have a fantasy of the few extravagances I would allow myself if I won the lottery, or had fuck-you-money. Chief on that list: someone to sharpen my cooking knives to razor sharp once a week. Maybe I didn't use that one this week -- don't care. Sharpen them all. I want to be able to shave with any one of them at a moment's notice. I might then pass the hours delicately slicing onions, all afternoon, just for the pure Zen of it, because there is something so completely satisfying about doing food prep with an obscenely sharp knife.

After a while I might up the ante and take a decade-long apprenticeship to learn to do the sharpening myself, which is something I've never gotten the proper hang of.

And even though I haven't played drums in over 5 years, I still think sometimes of a nice mid-life crisis thrash metal drumset: double kicks, three rack toms, china cymbal.

A few of you mentioned roto-toms, and if I'm going for it -- hell yeah, throw those on the pile.

dfglv wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 11:52 am I have cheered up a bit since last week and am pleased to confirm that my dumb desires now amount to installing a new pool table at the local community centre, taking up judo (I am 5'9", approx 340lbs, with the flexibility and resilience of a breadstick), and somehow buying the Takamine TB10, a discontinued acoustic bass guitar with an approximation of a double bass bridge and endpin and, for some reason, an onboard tube preamp. It looks like this:

Oh man, life goals right there!
I'd love to start BJJ again, but after taking my kid to judo I fucked up my Achilles heel and being a hefty fella my knees are sore all the time. So, water running it is, for me. Although I can't get myself to go there, it's boring as hell.

Oh but that Takamine! I play mainly fretless nowadays. My band mates want me to play upright, but I'm not ready to abandon self expression over unwieldy bundle of trouble. I played one gig on upright and could hardly hear myself. Also it's a very different beast, that scale and the sheer physicality of it makes it hard to play.

Emmons GS-10

PEPPER! wrote: Tue Dec 17, 2024 1:12 pmEmmons GS-10

Shit, you know somebody bought the name, and they're making S-10s again? They look pretty nice. I'm torn between that and the Sho-Bud LDG. No doubt it would be a fine conversation piece, but I would never actually get around to learning it.

I'd like a good quality turntable. It doesn't really make sense because I haven't purchased vinyl in decades and I'm not sure how badly I want to listen to my old records. I don't need a new hobby that involves new and heavy objects (or at least heavy when you accumulate them). I have a Technics that seems well built and probably cost me 100 bucks in the 80's, but the cueing mechanism is somehow broken. I guess I could get it fixed?

jfv wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:02 am

penningtron wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 8:24 am To move to south Florida right now.

This 100% meets the intent of this thread and I fully agree with this dumb desire.

The weather here has been nice. There was a cool/cold patch for a while a few weeks ago, which I enjoyed just for the change of pace, even if it was a tad uncomfortable. But other than that it's mostly been hovering between the low seventies and mid eighties during the day.

HOWEVER, allergies the past couple of weeks have been brutal. It's been on and off for me, usually not an all-day thing, but at its worst--like today--I've felt incapacitated, delirious. I mean, like, OUT OF MY MIND, not on Planet Earth, only nominally human. At certain times of year, this can be one of the worst areas in the country for allergies.