6ixString's Home Improvement and Mindless Ramblings Thread....
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Monday, May 9, 2016 00:48
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Well I was being all ironical and facetious about PN, I thought that obvious..
I never much actually CARED what was in the cargo, Jack - I ain't responsible for it, and if there's a problem in order to break the seal there has to be a rep from the DOT as well as a legally authorized representative from both the sender and recipient, so if it was anything out of sorts I wouldn't be the one gettin a boot up the ass about it, and I got paid either way so... *shrug*
Never had that actually happen, but I *did* get the occasional hicktown deputy dawg type who wanted a peek in there, but most of the time bringing the idea of pissing off the Feds into it made them reconsider the notion, save for a guns-drawn confrontation in bumfuck ohio, but nothin came of that either cause I seemed a little too confident in my ability to take the both of em for their liking.
(I used to point-shoot competatively with the IDPA)
And yes, bomb worshipping nihilist - one reason I find the dude praying to the bomb in Fallout 3 so damn funny is cause I *DID* worship the concept of nuclear armageddon at one time, and considered the radiation symbol an icon on par with the cross or a pentacle.
You gotta remember, all my childhood associates were prettymuch dead or in slam, I didn't have friends and for the past ten years I was a complete pariah to society, and I had just lost my remaining parent, watched my so-called-family vulture the assets, had my whole damn life crumble to bits, and nothing to turn to but an impossible ideal everyone else on this planet seemed to find repugnant, preferring their hate, their intolerance, exploitation and abuse and I was like, okay fine, I hope WE ALL DIE.
I seriously, seriously WANTED to kill EVERY BODY, and the only thing holding me back, the only fine thread which kept me from going complete rampage, was that I wouldn't get ENOUGH of em to matter.
The psychological scars from that still linger, in that my first reflex still is the desire to kill, weakened and easily dismissed that it is, when I see another human - this has NOT done wonders for my personal relationships you can imagine.
I was a ball of semi-feral hardcore violence just waitin to happen to someone, and prayin to have someone, or someones, lots of em, to happen to - only they waited too long to get around to doin it and by that time I'd dredged enough coherent thought back out of the pile to realize what a setup that was and made other plans... I ain't exaggerating about that semi-feral thing either, a person under ENOUGH stress will actually start to devolve below what I consider sentience, and one reason I am so good at bringing back abused people from the brink, or even pulling them out of the whirlpool, is cause I been there, I know the waters and can navigate them.
And yes indeedly, pipe tobacco, cause of the class-L dodge around them motherfuckin insane taxes which every time, they leech it all off into their pockets, and then try to throw another increase "for healthcare" or "for the schools", but the money NEVER GETS THERE, and they think they can double, triple, quadruple dip on that forever, and then have something of a hissy when people quit?
Oh, I'm sorry, wasn't that your fully expressed intent assholes, to force people to quit when you couldn't flat outlaw it ?
Buncha freakin liars the lot of em, it's about money, it always is...
Anyhow, yes, class-L pipe tobacco, which I score for about $12 a bag, WHEN I pay for it at all, God Bless Canada.
*hums Smugglers Blues*
And yes they're healthier cause that's bulk tobacco, untreated with the barrage of chems that prepackaged smokes are, although in my case I doubt it matters cause I don't freakin bother with the niceties of a rolling machine and filter tubes, I just crack open a rack of TOP rollin papers (the ones WITHOUT all that plastic/rosin coated shit layered on em) and spin em up like a nice fat dooby, and light that mofo!
I used to roll em straight, but when the Baltimore City cops
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Dont take 'amatuer lameness' az too much uv an insult, Jack! I never even went to see QueensRyche or Metal Church kuz they arent az good live az their studio stuff, like most bandz.
Sum uv my frendz are pro.
[url] http://www.7thheavenband.com/]
[url] http://www.gypsyacoustic.com/]
[url] http://mattmcbride.com/pages/main.asp[/url]
If youre really talented and work hard for a long time (or get a lucky break) you can get rich.
My fave joke with theze guyz iz 'you must be doing it rong, man! Evrybody knowz if you get a second hand guitar chancez are youll go far!'
If you get sum free time and spare $, Steve (gypsyacoustic) haz an actual studio & duz an amazing job uv layin down the tracks.
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Haha J0753,
No worries....
I'll never be famous or even good at that stuff, and I don't ever want to be either.
I'm to old for that now anyways. Unless I come up with some mind-blowing orignal work, 32 is the equivilant to 1920's 60. I'm not a bad looking guy by any means, and I have skills on the guitar and to rehab a house, but nothing that would make a million teenage girls scream and buy my album.....
Sadly, those times have come and gone.
That's on a grand scale though.....
One on One, my natural charisma coupled with a guitar and my remedial knowledge of how to get around it has made some magical nights happen. :)
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Originally posted by JO753:
Dont take 'amatuer lameness' az too much uv an insult, Jack! I never even went to see QueensRyche or Metal Church kuz they arent az good live az their studio stuff, like most bandz.
Sum uv my frendz are pro.
[url] http://www.7thheavenband.com/]
[url] http://www.gypsyacoustic.com/]
[url] http://mattmcbride.com/pages/main.asp[/url]
If youre really talented and work hard for a long time (or get a lucky break) you can get rich.
My fave joke with theze guyz iz 'you must be doing it rong, man! Evrybody knowz if you get a second hand guitar chancez are youll go far!'
If you get sum free time and spare $, Steve (gypsyacoustic) haz an actual studio & duz an amazing job uv layin down the tracks.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
BTW... Frem
F-U-C-K the new system here at fff...
I spent nearly an hour replying to your post and it's gone now.
I NEVER had that problem before!
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32, yes, 1 foot in the grave. Mold growing behind your ears. "Too old. Yes. Too old to begin the training." (Yoda)
Soundz like you paid too much attention in the Conformity Factory! Sheesh!
Life iz not a train on railz, Jack.
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In home improvement news.....
Weeds SUCK!
Of course, anyone who gave a crap about how their lawn looks knows that... but the project I'm up against now is not a question of regular lawn-care and maintenance, but the first assault against a mature "patch" of wildlife that likely has never been tousled with since the house was built in 1959.
I humbly submit the Before picture of the 80ft x 15ft Com-Ed easement that I've dubbed the "Crabbage Patch".
(Note, I took the picture after a few hours of work today and the few hours I did last night, but ALL of this was full of weeds beforehand. I figured since I'm going to be evening out the ground when I'm done before planting seeds, I wanted before pics that save my ass when my neighbor may complain that I put all of my rain runoff into his back yard. I didn't add any new dirt. It's not my fault that my property overall is about 3 inches higher than his is 
)
Do you know how many 5 gallon pails you fill up when removing weeds and debris from a virgin 1,200 sq/ft piece of land in this state? Well, I'm only about 2/5 to 1/2 done and I'm already well above 25 pails. As every other job I've taken on has proven in the end, this is a much larger job than I thought it would be initially.
I'm just shocked that the weather held out all damn day for me to do it. Got a few 1 or 2 minute drizzle spells, but other than that I was at it all day long. I figured I might luck into a good hour or two before the rain came when I started this morning. Lucky me!
Anyway, here's the After pic about 10 hours into it....
The silliest thing is, I kind of understand why nobody ever did this before. This area is a glorified Alley. I don't own the land, but I sure have to look at it everyday. I really can't imagine why nobody who ever lived here ever did this during their down-time though????? How could you have an otherwise nice looking back yard but live with that crap everyday for YEARS???
When I put my own privacy fence up to block the neighbor's ugly fence and their ugly back yard, here's hoping the village lets me keep as much of this re-seeded lawn as possible inside the fence (like my other next door neighbors have their fence).
Haha JO753...
You're right. To me, the WORST thing that could happen would to be famous, so it's not as if I'd want to ever be as talented as Clapton anyways. Maybe I'll be good enough to play in a band that does some city summer events like one of my ex-girlfriend's step dad did.
I've never heard that Queensryche song before. It's crazy... Don't hate me for saying it, if you don't like Boston, but this song sounds SO MUCH like Boston!
I can't even imagine how you could ever hit vocals like that man. I got a decent voice, and back when I did Karaoke I could rock a lot of songs from Edwin McCain to Tom Petty to even Metallica, but that insane wavering falcetto is just amazing. Back when I was really in shape and only smoking about 5 smokes a day I could hit all the high notes on Ah Ha's "Take on Me", but that falcetto was pretty straightforward and without the reverb of Queensryche.
I don't know a lot of their stuff, and if an old coworker didn't mention them to me about 6 years ago I never would have even known about them. Don't know how I missed them since I was growing up around the time they were doing their thing. Probably had something to do with the fact they weren't super-mainstream, my parents forbid me to watch MTV, and I was not only the oldest of my siblings, but I was the oldest cousin... so I didn't have any cool "older"-whatever to influence me on the down low.
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That's the thing about kids, or anyone whom you are teaching/mentoring/helpin out, you learn just as much from them as they learn from you. My 5 and a half year stint on junior high staff at church taught me this, and when they are grown and returning the favor for other kids, some of them are on staff now themselves, they learn this, its something you don't always get though until you're in the mentor or parent role, when you're the one getting raised or helped you don't usually know what an impact for good you're having on the one doing it for you.
Sarcasm and I have a funny relationship, there are as many ways to be sarcastic as there are people in this world. When you think you've got it down someone does it different and then you realize you don't.
"Crabbage patch" :)
I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.
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I wuz a little slow catching on to QueenszRyche myself. Back in the 80z the local metal station only played 1 uv their songz, Close To You. It wuz good enuff to make me buy the album, Rage For Order, but I didnt bother lissining to anything else from it for yirz. Wen I finally did, I discovered everything else wuz at least az good az that song!
Their first 5 albumz have zero filler krap! Its all good to great. The next 2 or 3 didnt appeal to me so much, but I havent heard their most recent yet.
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Originally posted by RionaEire:
That's the thing about kids, or anyone whom you are teaching/mentoring/helpin out, you learn just as much from them as they learn from you. My 5 and a half year stint on junior high staff at church taught me this, and when they are grown and returning the favor for other kids, some of them are on staff now themselves, they learn this, its something you don't always get though until you're in the mentor or parent role, when you're the one getting raised or helped you don't usually know what an impact for good you're having on the one doing it for you.
Sarcasm and I have a funny relationship, there are as many ways to be sarcastic as there are people in this world. When you think you've got it down someone does it different and then you realize you don't.
"Crabbage patch" :)
I'd love to be a mentor Riona, but with all of my successes, I am plagued with failures and eccentricities, and I'd never want to put myself in a position to ever be in any public spotlight in this brave new world we find ourselves in. I think that's why I'm always urging my bro to finally have a kid with his wife and wish they didn't get that damned cute dog to fill that void. You can never say never, but I'm pretty sure I'll never be a parent. I'm going on 33 and I still own an 8 year old cell phone because even though I love my current company after having 4 others before, I don't want to upgrade my phone and be in another 2 year commitment. Oh yeah, my house and car are paid for.... Ummmmmmm.... see a pattern developing here?
Short of them ever having kids before they're too old to, I think my only shot at influencing the young in a positive way is a zombie apocalypse, which I do believe I'm ready for. Not that I'm crazy enough to think it would happen, but with the REAL fears I'm loading up against I think I got at least 1 year of survival under the absolute worst circumstances taken care of. Don't remember what movie it was, but the guy who played Casey Jones in Ninja Turtles said something along the lines of "when the shit hits the fan, who's going to survive longer, the bleeding heart that stored up a year worth of water, or the guy next door with the gun and nothing to lose?"
Figure I'd do both so I don't have to trump my morals if things ever get bad. :)
Ah yes.... Sarcasm.... my number one defense mechanism....
Haha... glad you liked the Crabbage Patch lol
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Originally posted by JO753:
I wuz a little slow catching on to QueenszRyche myself. Back in the 80z the local metal station only played 1 uv their songz, Close To You. It wuz good enuff to make me buy the album, Rage For Order, but I didnt bother lissining to anything else from it for yirz. Wen I finally did, I discovered everything else wuz at least az good az that song!
Their first 5 albumz have zero filler krap! Its all good to great. The next 2 or 3 didnt appeal to me so much, but I havent heard their most recent yet.
Wow Jo, you sound just like the guy who introduced them to me. I wasn't just in the mood for it I guess when I heard the first song or two on the album he burned for me, and I don't know where it is now. I hear it's the one of their albums that tells a story from start to finish very much like 1984/Brave New World. I'll have to listen to it sometime. Maybe you could clue me in again to which album that would be?
The only song I know from them is their most POP song, Silent Lucidity.
I can actually play that one on Guitar
I can hit all of those notes too, even though I smoke..... WITHOUT AUTOTUNE!!!
Oh... BTW...
In other home improvement news....
One of my best friends, and somebody who has done many years of home improvement himself came over the other day to see the fixes I'd made and he was blown away.
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Operation Mindcrime iz wut youre thinking uv; the fave uv most hardcore QR fanz. My fave iz Rage for Order and Nue Regel iz my fave song.
Iz it just my computer, or iz anybody else having trouble with the cursor wile typing here? Sumtimez it just duznt move to where the typing iz actually going to happen, either with the arrow buttonz or the touchpad. Dam irritating, gorramit!
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Originally posted by JO753:
Operation Mindcrime iz wut youre thinking uv; the fave uv most hardcore QR fanz. My fave iz Rage for Order and Nue Regel iz my fave song.
Iz it just my computer, or iz anybody else having trouble with the cursor wile typing here? Sumtimez it just duznt move to where the typing iz actually going to happen, either with the arrow buttonz or the touchpad. Dam irritating, gorramit!
Haha... Operation Mindcrime! That's it!
I'll really have to give that a listen....
Nope, no problems here, except that I spent an hour replying to Frem a few nights ago and my post was "eaten"!
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