Not that Bob

Would an AMG GT 63 s stay out of the shop? I'll stop dreaming if they're junk. I used to be afraid of turbos but my Volvo has been flawless so maybe...but I know nothing about Mercedes reliability.

I think that was Wizard of Oz.

I just tucked that manila folder into my carry on for a trip to see the grandkids. You see, a phone is a machine and all machines break at some point. Usually at the most inopportune time, like while boarding an airplane. A printed piece of paper never has low batteries or a weak signal, whippersnapper.

A Makers float is tempting.

Can you eat ice cream. Seems like some dense calories.

Didn't y'all ever watch Disney's "Fantasia", you know, the dinosaur scene where they are just wandering around, eating one another, and minding their own business. Then...BOOM!! Mother Nature gets tired of all that shit and wants a change. Ain't nothing any man, woman, child, or dinosaur can do. If Mother Nature wants a change, she is going to have a gotdamn change. We are a gnat on an elephant's butt. Nothing we can do. tl/dr: We're fucked. Timeline Of Mass Extinction Events On Earth Extinction Event Approximate Time Of Occurrence Ordovician–Silurian extinction events 439 million years ago Late Devonian extinction 364 million years ago Permian–Triassic extinction event 251 million years ago Triassic–Jurassic extinction event 199 million to 214 million years ago Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 65 million years ago Holocene extinction Present (Ongoing)

We put plantation shutters on several French Doors in a previous house. Very functional but may be more visual weight than you want.

Chet Atkins, or I saw Andres Segovia at The Union one time and he was pretty bitchin'.

Swift I think. They certainly live up to that name.

I'll look tonight to see if my guys have that white collar.

Give me an idea of what these 6PM acrobats are swooping down to catch a bill full of water from the pool on the fly. I'd say nighthawks but nighthawks are mottled or stripedy. These guys are toast colored on the breast and belly and black or dark brown on the back. They move and dart so fast I can't get a picture. I mean unbelievably fast and agile. They can dart 4 different directions in a second. They'll group up and run off a buzzard.

I swear I'm losing an inch and a half a day on these hundred degree days. Y'all?

You gotta make this decision on your own, with wife of course, but I have had two friends cured of Melanoma at MD Anderson. I have nothing but good to say about that place. Peace to you and the spouse. I find The Mayo Clinic informative, accessible and up to date. Be sure to scroll down to find link to next section. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/melanoma/symptoms-causes/syc-20374884

Getting old sucks. You either have a condition that threatens you every day, or you watch your friends and family struggle with a condition that threatens them every day. I have three good friends now who are on the threshold. I would not be at all surprised to get that phone call from their wife, weeping and asking me to help with the funeral arrangements, or whatever other help a good friend should give at that time. You drop everything and go help. Finish, and then go back to what you were doing. Catching up with your own stuff. Hoping to get it all in order before your wife makes that same phone call to one of your friends. Wondering how you managed to outrun The Grim Reaper a little longer than your buddy. You both raised hell in your younger days. Beer for beer. Cigarette for cigarette. No justification for you being alive while he's gone. Worried that the footsteps you hear behind you are The Reaper, coming to take you next. Wondering which of your friends will get that call from your wife. Getting old sucks.

The Classical Music thread motivated me to pull out one of my top 10 favorite albums, if you said top 5 I wouldn't argue. Bach, got dam Bach. Listen to the "complex simplicity" of this. I know that's a contradiction in terms, but for me it defines what I am hearing. The Flentrop at the top of it's game. The King of Instruments indeed. And Biggs. Biggs is a fucking monster. I am never sorry I put this album on.

I can't get the YouTube to open. Who is conductor/orchestra on that William Tell? Fucking magnificent version.

This may be the best thread I've ever read on the intertrons. And that Akhlut. Yeah. Fuck that.

This makes me happy. I listen to Beethoven and Mozart often. I listen to Bach every day. Soli Deo Gloria

You are correct. Rene was not playing when the bone was invented. He was one of my first heroes when I was a kid. Ramirez. Bobby Lackey. Later on, James Saxon. Bigger than life to a little kid.

We gotta move to night games or people gonna die.

Can someone splain it to me? I'm a Texan. I've lived through plenty of 100+ days, but this heat wave just seems hotter. Is there some atmospheric thing that makes 2023 100 degrees hotter than 2008 100 degrees? I know I'm 15 years older than 2008, but come on! I spent time outside in 2008, not so much today.

I look at these situations as service to society. If you fix your own brakes you are depriving some mechanic of much needed income. Be a team player. Prime the economic machine.

#1. This guy is about 100X better than me. #2. Everybody posting on this thread is about 100X better than me. #3. The problem I have with this style is that it is about 90% playing the same 2 or 3 licks at different places on the neck. #4. This guy is about 100X better than me.

Don't you give me no dirty looks Your father's hip, he knows what cooks

I'm going to hurl