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So I have this old guitar. At least 38 years, the way I figure it, maybe a good deal more. My pa bought it when he went away to college. Made by some little guitar-maker in Irvine, CA, who made classical guitars that no one's ever heard of. He stuck a Wherehouse sticker on it way back when. Woo hah.

Anyway, I dug it out of a corner when I was in high school and I've put it through hell since then, and it hasn't lost a thing. The sucker may not have been top notch when they cranked it out, but it was made of good wood and made to last.

Yesterday a window-fan rattled out of the windowframe and a big blast of wind blew it out and right onto the guitar. I've just got it out and there's something rattling around in it, so I shake it out. (I never play with a pick, so I can't have dropped a pick in.)

And it's a piece of the borken fan. Right there inside the guitar, which only has a little scratch on it. (It's had number of others, but none have ever turned into cracks even in the humid climates I've been living in. My old Fender Rhodes was shot to hell before I left California. The good people at Fender made a product that couldn't handle the way I live, but that Orlando guy in Irvine sure made a hell of a product.

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Ramen!!!!!

Very Happy

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Well, I guess that's that. R.I.P.

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That WAS it.

Now you have awoken the beast.

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Damn it, Andy.

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Garn...you know you love this thread, Patio.

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Yeah. It's got sentimental value. But like the 8-track, I fear it may have outlived its usefulness.

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Dunno...sometimes it gets all lively and funny again......

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I've got a nice bellyful of tasty Alameda County zinfandel in me on top of some tasty lamb and some very marginal shellfish.

I'm contributing nothing except for, maybe, a very colorful and visceral mess a bit later.

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Lol! And I, at 3.09 pm, have nothing in MY belly except two mugs of coffee, and I am feeling dizzy.

I am procrastinating about bathing, and going out to the shops, and what the smeg I am serving the fella tonight when he drops in, expecting dinner.

This man needs training.

We're gonna have a talk about the need for him to contribute to the hunting and gathering soon.

VERY soon.

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There's a fella dropping in? And an expectant one, at that? This is a development, innit? What a happy conundrum.

(For the record, in my book, the home-person has responsbility for eat-in food, unless'n it be afternoon drinkies and snackies. But keep in mind that the missus and I had our first date at a court-ordered AA meeting the morning after we first slept together (on a freshly-wine-stained bed), so I'm not exactly Miss Manners here...)

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patiodog wrote:

There's a fella dropping in? And an expectant one, at that? This is a development, innit? What a happy conundrum.

(For the record, in my book, the home-person has responsbility for eat-in food, unless'n it be afternoon drinkies and snackies. But keep in mind that the missus and I had our first date at a court-ordered AA meeting the morning after we first slept together (on a freshly-wine-stained bed), so I'm not exactly Miss Manners here...)

Lol!!!! How romantic a meeting!!!

That's HIS view...re the host providing...however, he is one of those males who says his place is too disgusting for me to soil my dainty fur with, so it's ALWAYS my place. I have no desire to visit his disgusting abode, but its presence changes the rules, in my view.

Happy conundrum?

Dunno......I think I am turning into a man...you know:

"Why do they always want a RELATIONSHIP?!!!!" (moam grumble...)

"Ohmigod, the TOOTHBRUSH and DEODORANT have appeared!!!!!!" (runs, gibbering....)

He's buying a toothbrush, and I'm still thinking from date to date....

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So you're in the driver's seat. What are you complaining about? As Brian said to the leper that Jesus had healed and was now without a trade -- "there's no pleasing some people."

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patiodog wrote:

So you're in the driver's seat. What are you complaining about? As Brian said to the leper that Jesus had healed and was now without a trade -- "there's no pleasing some people."

Lol! Fair cop.

But he's already backseat driving.......and I have no idea where I am going.

Sigh...I really AM turning into a man.....this happened with the last one...."You're not prepared to commit..."

I'd MUCH rather be in the driver's seat, than the passenger seat, you're right....... but I do think shared driving is the best.

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Shared driving is absolutely the best.

I'd have had a much different life if I hadn't met someone who would really share all the driving -- the heavy ****, the very personal if not very significant to the larger world **** -- when I was so young. I knew it at the time, thinking, "Man, I'd like to do this and that." A lot of stuff I would've done.

But a lot of stuff that I wouldn't've done, too.

Does he see you as an equal (or himself as an equal to you)?

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patiodog wrote:

Shared driving is absolutely the best.

I'd have had a much different life if I hadn't met someone who would really share all the driving -- the heavy ****, the very personal if not very significant to the larger world **** -- when I was so young. I knew it at the time, thinking, "Man, I'd like to do this and that." A lot of stuff I would've done.

But a lot of stuff that I wouldn't've done, too.

Does he see you as an equal (or himself as an equal to you)?

Hmmmmmm......I assume so.

Politically he considers me wishy washy and not properly Left.

Personally...he knows I am currently calling the shots relationship wise.

I am far more successful career wise and socially....

But, he's not a specially social creature, so.....

He considers himself more rational.

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Us "rational" types are the craziest, you know.

And I 'spect you consider yourself to be a rational type, too. Leastise, you carry on here as if that was so.

Not properly left? What is this, "The Children of the Revolution"? (With you as the man once again, I might add... Poor Joe Welch, doomed from the start...)

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Just being crusty, you understand. I am a great fan of hyperbole in conversation, and sometimes people don't quite get that. It's a real problem among good, earnest, Lutheran folks -- who in the end are some broad-minded folk and I love living in their beer-sodden midst, and if they don't get that "I'd like to throw that asshole under a bus" really means you are mildly irritated by them and would probably buy them a beer if you saw them in a bar probably reflects moor poorly on my character than theirs (or anybody else's).

At any rate, I'm not trying to be a dick.

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patiodog wrote:

Just being crusty, you understand. I am a great fan of hyperbole in conversation, and sometimes people don't quite get that. It's a real problem among good, earnest, Lutheran folks -- who in the end are some broad-minded folk and I love living in their beer-sodden midst, and if they don't get that "I'd like to throw that **** under a bus" really means you are mildly irritated by them and would probably buy them a beer if you saw them in a bar probably reflects moor poorly on my character than theirs (or anybody else's).

At any rate, I'm not trying to be a dick.

Lol...you aren't a dick, you just have one.

Which leads me to wonder: Is there, REALLY, a man....anywhere....who does not, even secretly, believe himself the equal, or more, to any woman?

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patiodog wrote:

Us "rational" types are the craziest, you know.

And I 'spect you consider yourself to be a rational type, too. Leastise, you carry on here as if that was so.

Not properly left? What is this, "The Children of the Revolution"? (With you as the man once again, I might add... Poor Joe Welch, doomed from the start...)

I consider myself both rational and very emotional.

This fella doesn't get a lot of the normal emotional of the world.

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