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abuelo gringo

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  1. Sister-in-law, niece, and their husbands evacuated their Altadena home last night. Currently holed up in a hotel near the Rose Bowl. Hopefully they won't have to move on from there.
  2. Agreed, both then and now. I would not have paid to see the David Clayton-Thomas BS&T, maybe the Al Kooper version. Couldn’t miss a chance to see Miles live. BB and Nina were a bonus.
  3. One of my worst was also one of my best. 4th Longhorn Jazz Festival at Memorial Auditorium in July of 1969. Blood Sweat and Tears couldn’t find one of their nine matching microphones and held the audience hostage for an hour waiting for the guilty party to return it. I don’t know if it showed up, but the show finally resumed. Childish behavior from supposed professionals. Great performances from Miles Davis (whom we came to see), Nina Simone, and Hugh Masekela, but the night was soured by BB&T antics.
  4. Doubt I'll make it until it streams, but will watch for it. Any serious Dylan fans need to spend a day in Tulsa at the Bob Dylan Center. As a bonus, the Woody Guthrie Center is next door.
  5. I range all the way from cassette tape recording to burning CDs, but made my biggest killing on Usenet news groups.
  6. I am looking for a photo restoration software for Windows. I realize you get what you pay for, but preferably free or cheap, but not a subscription.
  7. Nope. Pleasant Mound (just north of Pleasant Grove) in Dallas County, before incorporation by Dallas. Circa 1953-54.
  8. Some did. But mine didn't have a compass in the stock.
  9. Maybe there's a reason they call it "going postal"?
  10. They just thought it was a Kroger.
  11. I remember when she was governor of Mississippi.
  12. Yeah, in Venice.
  13. I'm sure most if not all talk shows have a stable of guests who are somewhat local and can be called on should there be a last minute cancel or late arriving scheduled guest. So if they schedule Eddie Murphy but his plane is delayed or he has a family emergency or is just drunk, they can call up Teri Garr or Don Rickles or someone and keep the show going. I'm assuming this is why Jimmy Fallon seems to have a lot of SNL people on his show when they don't have a big movie coming out. For Colbert, it's Jon Stewart and John Oliver. Both in NYC and have weekly shows.
  14. Maybe by railcar?
  15. Yes. This eliminates the "double dipping" provisions enacted years ago. People with Civil Service Retirement System and similar pensions used to be able to collect SS benefits also. 35-40 years ago they offset the other pension amount against the SS earnings. This bill would reinstate the retiree receiving full benefits from both. I didn't have enough quarters in to qualify for SS, but many did, but weren't able to.
  16. Our doc says two in a year and Medicare requires rehab. We don't have Medicare part B, so I don't know what that means. Hope to not find out.
  17. Per Stevie Van Zandt on his underground garage the other day, Quincy produced Lesley Gore's huge hit, It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want Too.) This was a biggie in my teen years. A vastly talented man. When Quincy met Lesley – Sixties Music Secrets
  18. We also use these two routes. The Hwy 80-181 has less cities and stop lights. Also, Pioneer Barbecue in Nixon is a good stop.
  19. Just got back from early voting at Bastrop satellite office in Cedar Creek. Buncha other olds, mostly farmer types. Wife and I did not have to wait. Went right up to the iPad check in (two operating), got recorded, and went right to machines (10 or 12, all in operation.) Out in 5 or so minutes. Probably among the few blue votes at that station.
  20. Like people who are going to vote for Trump, but are too embarrassed to say so.
  21. Another vote for Zombie eyeball cookie. No laugh from wife, however.
  22. Someone needs to tell Kevin Kieschneck.
  23. Yeah. We would drive down for the day from Bastrop area when we needed to assess, clean, meet with FEMA, meet with the roofer or other workers, etc. The Sea Sands condo ripped all their sheet rock out and piled it on their parking lot till it could be hauled away. My wife picked up a cough from all the crap in the air. My sister in law's neighborhood over by Community Park was covered with all the vegetation from Charlie's Pasture and the sewer plant swamp. They had more smell problems than we did. It was probably six weeks to two months before we could stay the night.
  24. Wife and I got Pfizer Covid, flu, and Prevnar 20 pneumonia vaccines last week. Both had sore muscle at injection site of Prevnar, me for a day, her a little longer. I plan on getting shingles vax in a couple of weeks. We had the older one years ago. She doesn't want the new one. She had a mild case of shingles on her arm right after the vax. Went away in a few weeks after prescribed ointment. I don't look forward to the side effects.
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