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A used Fender Newporter I bought around 1974.  Looked cool but sounded terrible.  Or at least it sounded terrible when i played it.

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Have fun Jim.  I spent a week down there the beginning of December and another at the end of the month.  Just got back the 4th of January.  It was pretty chilly in Pensacola when I left. What part of the state are you vacationing?

DE

As I plan on being retired by then, I'm guessing I'm around 75% sure I can make it.  Might bring a couple friends if things work out.

DE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg

Considering the teams that will be playing, this years national championship game should be called the Oversigning.com Bowl.

I wonder at what point sponsors are going to realize that adding their name to a bowl game makes it sound so ridiculous that the "advertisement" becomes counter-productive.

I'm guessing a shoulder injury - a common problem among hair (whitewater) boaters.  I've never had a bad injury while on the water but carrying yaks down river paths and rock-hopping to scout rapids has caused a few pains over the years.  I sold my jumbo Guild 12-string back in the 80's because after tearing up my shoulder while carrying a yak down a goat path to run a flooded river section, my arm just couldn't comfortably reach over the lower bout.  Twenty years later I sold my dread-naught because accumulated shoulder injuries made it too painful to play.  I'm pretty comfortable with 000's now but there's always the possibility of 00's 0's and parlors in my future ...............

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Well, the 2 GOD (2 guitars ordered day) has finally turned into a NGDX2 as the Recording King ROS-16 and the Breedlove Retro OM/ERe arrived this week.

The ROS arrived Monday and has really been a surprise. It's a replica of a 1902 Martin 000 slot-head and I couldn't believe the quality and detail in such a cheap guitar  I was impressed with the sound - right out of the box it sounded great and can only get better.  The wide neck (1-13/16 string spacing) really fits my big paws well and it has been a joy to play.  In fact I can hardly put the thing down. 

The Breedlove arrived Wednesday.  I'm always leery about buying instruments from ebay, but the seller was correct in his description.  The guitar is absolutely pristine without a mark on it or the case.  Its a spruce/rosewood combo like my Blueridge and has an on-board L.R Baggs pickup with a LR-TCV preamp which has a 3 band EQ and built-in tuner.  The guitar sounds just like my spruce/rosewood Blueridge and that's the problem.  Its like having two of the same guitar.  In my haste to buy it, I thought the string spacing was 1-3/4" but it's 1-11/16 just like my Blueridge and has the same shallow C slim neck.  Although it's a great guitar, I'm thinking about trying to sell it on Craig's List and look for a cedar/rosewood with 1-3/4" string spacing.

I've been invited to a bluegrass jam at a friend's house tomorrow evening.  I'm anxious to take the ROS-16 and see how it does. (Or should I say how I do with it ...........)

DE

There have been a few, but one that really stands out.  The first time I heard Darrel Scott's "Never Leave Harlan Alive" I thought "Damn, I wish I'd wrote that" and my next thought was "Damn, I need to learn that".

DE

It should be a great game and one of many college games I'll watch this weekend.  I used to watch the pros too but in '94 after the baseball player's strike the realization hit me that watching corporate sports is like rooting for General Motors to beat Apple Computer - it's all just a big business that depends on "fans" to spend money to support the lavish lifestyles of the owners and players. I haven't watched a single minute of any pro sports games (football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer) in 17 years. On the other hand I watch every college sporting event I can find on TV, although football is my favorite.

I agree that LSU and Bama may be the best two college football teams however I don't like the way they got to that level.  If you are familiar with college teams "over-signing" players then you know that those two teams are among the worst abusers.  In fact, historically the whole SEC has been guilty of the practice.  Most college fans think when a player commits and signs to a college that they are given a 4-year scholarship, but actually it is only for one year at a time.  Still, most colleges honor their original offers and even if a player does not turn out to be as good as they originally thought, as long as they stay out of trouble, attend classes and pass their courses, they are kept on the team until they graduate.  At LSU and Alabama (and most SEC west teams as well as SC in the east) these kids are pushed off the team and replaced with new recruits each year so the team can still stay within the 85 scholarship limit. Its tough for teams that try to honor scholarship offers to compete against teams that practice over-signing, as in reality they are playing kids from 4 recruitment classes against kids that are essentially from the equivalent of 5-6 classes (best of 85-90 players vs best of 120-25).  Its the reason high school football is divided into divisions as small schools with limited players can't compete against large schools who pick kids from hundreds that try out.  Georgia and Florida stopped over-recruiting a few years back and now have trouble competing in their own conference.

In short its totally unfair to the kids who get cast aside, although its legal by NCAA rules.  There have been recent meetings and discussions within the NCAA to raise academic standards and to also make scholarships good for at least two years but the SEC is fighting it.

Anyway, I'll step off the soapbox now.  Hope everyone enjoys the games this weekend.

DE

Like many of you, I have dabbled in several other things. I've been a whitewater kayaker, raft guide, and canoer for many years, although my "hair boating" days are over.  Any big water I run now is strictly rowing my raft.  I raced canoes for a few years and have a few medals from winning some Ohio state finals races as well as two gold medals from the "82 World's Fair. (A  damaged right shoulder ended my racing days though. ) I've also done quite a bit of wilderness tripping and have 21 trips lasting 1-3 weeks along the old fur trade routes in western Ontario.  I also combined my love of canoing with my interest in the Lewis & Clark Expedition by paddling 150 miles of the Upper Missouri in Montana exactly 200 years after they did the same section of river, staying on their campsites and seeing many of the sights they described in their journals. I've also combined my love of woodworking and have built 5 cedar-strip canoes over the years.

I've designed and built 4 houses from the ground up by myself, doing all the masonry and block work, carpentry, plumbing, wiring etc.  The home I currently live in was built by me 23 years ago and I raised my 4 children in it.  (The only thing I have ever hired out has been finishing dry wall, which I suck at.)

I've also logged quite a few miles back-backing and camping as well as spending 30-50 days a year fishing for small mouth bass.

I'm an American Civil War buff and have a pretty good library of books related to the conflict.  I enjoy walking the old battle fields and imagining what it would have been like to have fought there.  I had a goal this year to try to write enough songs about the Civil War to put together a CD.  Although I've written several new songs this year, only 3 have been about the war so maybe a CD next year ????????

By trade, I was an I&C (Instrumentation and Controls) Tech for 20 years and also an instructor/trainer in the trade for nearly 10 years, all my work being in the nuclear industry.  For the last dozen years I've worked as an I&C Engineer although the controls systems I knew (electrical, electronic, pneumatic, hydraulic) have almost all been replaced with computers and the technology is leaving me behind, so I can no longer say I'm very good at it.

What I have been consistently good at over the years has been CONSUMING ADULT BEVERAGES.

DE