halfspeed

Not a lot of snow, but sub-zero temperatures and high winds blowing the snow around. White out conditions, lots of drifting. It's a mess. I'll be working from home in the morning.

Dannihilator

Uggh.

The more I think about it, the more I want to ride going to the sun road.

patentcad

I have another gig 2.15, and a couple who heard JD and I playing there asked us to play @ their daughter's big outdoor birthday bash in June.

Pcad will have the last laugh.




You'll see. You'll all see.

3alarmer 

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...I hear there's big money in playing Bar Mitzvahs.

Ramona_W

Or Bat Mitzvahs as the case may be. Probably not so much call for bands at a bris. Don't want loud music to make the mohel edgy and all.

patentcad

The only way you can really make money as a local musician for the most part is to play things like weddings. That requires a level of pro musicianship that's beyond most amateur musicians (me included I think); regardless, when I go to a wedding as I did this past Fall, I look up at the wedding band and think that I'd never want to do that. What I do is fun. Playing a wedding gig is real work, much of the material you have to play is awful.

halfspeed

You can always teach pimply faced kids how to play "Eruption".

BillyD

Whoa! Family forum here, hullooo!!!

BillyD

Of course I keed, I keed.

rjones28 

We had that this morning, minus the sub-zero temps.

WhyFi

I fired up the snow blower in the late morning, yesterday. Wind kicked up in the early afternoon and I had 10" deep drifts covering the sidewalk despite the fact that it didn't actually snow.

WhyFi

Oh man, this is getting me borderline aroused -

truckstop

we got 4-5" of super fluffy dry snow, and then after the driveway was clear it snowed *again*, maybe 2 more inches, and then the wind started. what do you even do with that? it's still windy but the sun is out and it's only -4° instead of the -50° they were predicting. so there's that. Looking at the pile behind our house I'm pretty sure I should move some stuff in the basement because when that **** melts we're going to get some seepage, but i don't know where to go with the snow anymore.

i talked to an older gentleman the other day and we were discussing how this winter is more like what we used to get 30 years ago. for me, i always thought winter seemed worse then because i was 2-3' shorter and all the snow drifts looked much bigger.

Dudelsack 

I been fox hunting:

ls01

I have the spin Dr. Truing stand also, I hsve adapted a cheap dual indicator to mine. Works great.
I like my spin Dr. nipple wrenches better than my Park wrenches though.

ls01

Mark the outsude of the spoke with a black sharpie marker. Adjust the spoke and then twist the nipple till the mark is back where it was, to address spoke windup. Wipe with alchol when done.

ls01

Fft cuz hes old

halfspeed

And if you're using bladed spokes, you skip all that. Plus, with a bladed spoke holder you don't even have to overshoot and turn back.

halfspeed

Fortunately, they can figure out "Smoke on the Water" on their own.

rjones28 

What do you do, if you have black spokes?

patentcad

I gotta get outta here.

WhyFi

LesterOfPuppets

White Out?

seriously, though, I'd go with tape.

coasting 

i like cycling. i like bikes.

But I would never ever get aroused by a bicycle. just saying.


carry on.

WhyFi

I said "borderline"!