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Re: What's to chat about?

#1276 Post by Bruce Weldy »

Tom Smit wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:32 pm Deleted the original post in case some might have found it upsetting.
Don't know what you deleted, but I've never seen you post anything that could even mildly be considered upsetting.

Except that time you called me a fat, bald, redneck jackass from Texas.....but, since it's true - I guess I can't complain.....

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Bruce Weldy wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2024 6:03 pm
Tom Smit wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:32 pm Deleted the original post in case some might have found it upsetting.
Don't know what you deleted, but I've never seen you post anything that could even mildly be considered upsetting.

Except that time you called me a fat, bald, redneck jackass from Texas.....but, since it's true - I guess I can't complain.....
Hahahahaha! I don't remember that!!!!! :lol:
What I had posted worked for me successfully, but, some people may consider it "misinformation".
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Re: What's to chat about?

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Bruce Weldy wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2024 6:03 pm
Tom Smit wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:32 pm Deleted the original post in case some might have found it upsetting.
Don't know what you deleted, but I've never seen you post anything that could even mildly be considered upsetting.
This.

Bruce, I know this is hard to envision but there may be a darker side to our friendly Tom that we have never been aware of :lol:
Except that time you called me a fat, bald, redneck jackass from Texas.....but, since it's true - I guess I can't complain.....
:loler:
Where can I complain about the coffee that just went all over my screen and keyboard?

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#1279 Post by Bruce Weldy »

AntonZ wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:53 am
Where can I complain about the coffee that just went all over my screen and keyboard?
You know I have Covid.....you shouldn't be reading my posts without a mask on....

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Good point :cowboy:

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#1281 Post by Rich4349 »

Bruce Weldy wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:20 pm You know I have Covid.....you shouldn't be reading my posts without a mask on....
It seems like 75% of the people I know have had it in the past month, if not currently.
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Rich4349 wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 11:12 am
Bruce Weldy wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:20 pm You know I have Covid.....you shouldn't be reading my posts without a mask on....
It seems like 75% of the people I know have had it in the past month, if not currently.
Interesting, but I tested positive last Tuesday. My wife has tested twice (including this morning) and she's still negative. No change in our regular routine. Still sleep in the same bed, etc. Same happened the second time I had it. She never got it.

However, I did get her the first time. :mrgreen:

A .333 average would get you millions in MLB.

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I will say that I have never tested for it. BTW, oranges have tested positive.
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#1284 Post by Bruce Weldy »

Tom Smit wrote: Sat Feb 10, 2024 10:38 pm I will say that I have never tested for it. BTW, oranges have tested positive.
Well, I've always been a redhead, but I guess orange is more descriptive of my hair in my early years. :cowboy:

After the first round, I've been able to predict the second and third round before testing. It just feels different than anything I've ever had. Fortunately, I didn't lose my sense of taste like I did the first time. That was truly weird. It wasn't that I couldn't taste anything at all, everything just tasted strange and different.

I started Paxlovid immediately and the symptoms have been pretty mild so far. But, that stuff gets in your system and you can taste it 24/7. But, just took my last dose. Hopefully, tomorrow that taste will be out of my mouth and I'll keep feeling better. Two shows next weekend - gotta' be better. Rock and Roll waits for no man!

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Re: What's to chat about?

#1285 Post by Tom Smit »

I have had good success with Ivermectin. When I felt like a bad cold was coming on, lungs feeling tight, well, then I had some. Within hours the lungs loosened up and the coughs became productive.
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Tom Smit wrote: Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:08 am ...and the coughs became productive.
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Re: What's to chat about?

#1287 Post by Bruce Weldy »

Came across this yesterday.....pretty profound. I'm definitely not an audiophile. Are you?
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#1288 Post by Seth »

I agree, profound. Upon a brief moment of introspection, I definitely do both. I can relate to "using your music to listen to my system". However, I would never consider myself an audiophile in the traditional sense. The traditional audiophile plight is a fools errand in this day and age.
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I've been thinking about making this post for a few months. Over those months my intentions have grown stronger and I feel it's time to share with the group...

I'm switching gears in life. Gonna shake it up a bit and pursue what's seemed like a pipe dream. More fantasy than realistic expectation. You only live once! Might as well start making up reasons I can do it, instead of making up reasons why I can't.

I'm going to sell EVERYTHING, buy a sailboat and sail to as many amazing places the world over as I possibly can, for as long as I am able and interested.

I live in California, but I'm looking at boats for sale as far up as Canada. I estimate it will likely take at least one year to get to the point of being ready to shove off into adventure. And my goal is to shove off no later than Sept 1 2026.

Without going into detail about every possible place, the rough layout of the adventure will be California to Baja Mexico, then West to the South Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, South Asia, Islands of the Indian ocean, Madagascar. Taking my time and going wherever the wind takes me, it may take five years or more to get to that point. But from there, it's a choice between continuing South around South Africa, across the South Atlantic to Brazil, and North up to the Caribbean, Bahamas, Eastern US and cross the North Atlantic for a European tour, South into the Mediterranean... Spain, Italy, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, etc. OR, go the other way around and head North from Madagascar, through the Suez Canal, do the Mediterranean, up to the Norther EU countries, across the North Atlantic, down the US coast, Bahamas, Caribbean and beyond.

Once everything is bought and paid for, monthly expenses should be quite manageable. No car payment, no car insurance, no mortgage/rent. Mostly just food, fuel, maintenance, and VISA/immigration fees. My intention is to financially support the adventure through documenting the adventure on a YouTube channel. I don't expect to become YouTube famous. But, I'm fairly certain I can be interesting, entertaining, and charming enough to attract sufficient cashflow in the venture. Might help get the channel off the ground if I can find an attractive woman (or three) to join me. :fingers:

In researching how to create a successful YouTube channel, they say it will take 100 videos before money starts to roll in. Yikes! I better get started now!

So, why post these intentions here? After so many years, I consider some of you friends. If you're wondering if you're one of them, the answer is yes. And yes, I still intend on participating and contributing to this forum. And yes, I intend to meet up and visit any and all of you sprinkled throughout the world.

Regretfully, there are some speaker projects that are going to get abandoned in this shift of intention. If any of you reading this are near Lodi, CA (I'm not stuck again, I swear), I'll gladly donate all the lumber needed to make four 30" wide T39's out of 5 ply Douglas Fir (lighter than Baltic Birch), which is already cut down to rough dimensions and labeled. As well as enough 1/4" Baltic Birch and 1/8 flex ply, cut down to rough dimensions and labeled, to make four light weight DR200's. I have drivers up the wahzoo and will be posting them up in the classifieds section soon. 3012LF's, S2012's, Beta 12's, Neo drivers for DR200, enough mid-range drivers for a home theater of TLAH's, SLA center, and Surrounds. I'll also have M32C mixer with stagebox, many amplifiers, wireless IEM's, etc. It's all gotta go. Let me know if there's something you're looking for... Driverack VENU 360, rolling 4RU Gator Racks, Gig bag full of cabling and misc gear... tons of stuff to get rid of.

My hope is to find good homes for all this stuff and to share the adventure from here on out with anyone who's interested in following along.

Any and all questions or comments welcome. Are any of you guys experienced sailors? I am not (yet). LOL

I've never had any tattoos. I've always wanted one, but could never think of something I'd want to have on my body forever. I like the idea of them signifying an achievement and look forward to earning my turtle, first of several Swallow's, an anchor, and possibly a fully rigged ship. Prior to the existence of the Panama Canal, my great grandfather sailed from Denmark, around Cape Horn, to San Francisco. He had a HUGE fully rigged ship tattoo across his chest. He wasn't the type to show it off, but I remember seeing it as a youngster. Now I understand why.

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Re: What's to chat about?

#1290 Post by Bruce Weldy »

You never cease to surprise me Seth. Keep us up to date while you put this together.

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