StringJunky

Yes, I had a 2 year or so period when I'd just got my guitar and was trying every string make and type out there until I settled on Ernie Ball Earthwood bronze 11's. A guitar playing friend called me that and that was what popped up in my head when I joined here. In retrospect, I should have left it until the guitar dried out and settled down before doing that. I made it harder for myself to settle on string choice because it was changing all the time in the first two or three years. The action doesn't seem to have moved in the six years it's been away, so I presume it is settled now. To get over the self-conscious/pressure thing, I've thought of playing in front of a mirror and frequently recording/reviewing myself might settle the nerves of playing in front of others. At the end of the day, we get out of it what we want, even if it's just noodling now and again. The sound of a live guitar and feeling its vibrations is a pretty good way to meditate and get away from normal life for a while.

I used it for my Mamod traction engine in the 70's. Not seen it for a long time.

Is 99% IPA ok in those, or is it too volatile for that?

Time is part of the making of the tone, like wine its bouquet. Also, you know that guitar and can get the sound you want out of it. With a new guitar you have to start again.

I paid for it to be built. Yes's lyrics were more a medium for Anderson's voice, I think. More to evoke emotions rather than concrete concepts. I like Baroque. Here's another Bach piece on guitar by Vidovic. I prefer Julian Byzantine, but she is close.

Jazz really needs to be heard in the flesh. I saw a South African Jazz pianist with double bassist, brass wind player and drummer. They seemed to meld all styles together and it was a masterclass in musicality and precision. The drummer was like a clock with swing. I'm normally into Blues, Pink Floyd, Progressive etc. Yes, I bow to their skill and the ease with which the jazz players improvise. I've just got back my deep-bodied OM after 6 years from my nephew. Its tone has matured well. It is 18 years since I had it built.

It seems teabags are moving over to using polylactic acid, which is plant-based, rather than fossil fuel origins, but is still technically plastic and requires industrial methods to decompose. There is also the issue of recycled plastic being used, and the concomitant risks of contamination with fossil-based plastics. It is not ascertained whether Pthaalates are used in teabag plastics, which makes plastic materials flexible, and are known endocrine disruptors in fish. If the plastic used is recycled then its anybody's guess. I'm going to buy a teapot, thinking about it, although I am mainly a coffee drinker.

You had a close shave.

Wow! I was doing a landscaping job at a house and the lady owner came running out and said a plane had crashed into the WTC, then we saw the second one. We knew then it was an attack. So sad and shocking to see and hear those people crashing down onto the foyer roof from inside cameras before they collapsed. You were standing 500m from the start of the mess we see today in the Middle East.

A new view angle from the twin towers tragedy, a chap just uploaded after 23 years. It's quite clear the collapse starts at the sites of impact and not a detonation at the bottom by a secret government cabal.

I think your body's temp responses are geared to maintaining homeostasis in the brain.

I use uBlock Origin in Brave browser and it's clean as a whistle.

Google 'old tom style gin'. It is juniper berries and gin.

GOPcare.

#MeToo.