i hate winter

What can I say but "alternate hobby" ?
Hence the guitars in my life. New amp yesterday, fingers are now bleeding, face is cracked with smiling.
Buy a skateboard with road wheels. Climb a mountain. Ride a bike. Find a fit girl and try and keep up with her. Sheesh, find a fat girl and try and keep up with her.
I should mention that I love winter in Canada.

i put new strings on the godin 2 days ago,

warm up the tubes and now go jingle jangle all the way home.

now to finish off that teardrop rickenbacker project........

Pics, or it did not happen.
Have new strings to put on Gretsch too.

BTW doodad, the Spring Equinox is not until 3.09am on September 23rd, which is more like 8 weeks away. Lots of little bear sleepy time left yet.

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Gestalt said...

i put new strings on the godin 2 days ago,

warm up the tubes and now go jingle jangle all the way home.

now to finish off that teardrop rickenbacker project........

^ i'll take a photo and email you.

it's a vintage hollowbody tear drop. similar to a mosrite. i've been rebuilding it (over the past 10 years ) and have some rickenbacker pickups, grovner heads etc to put into it. never bought the rick wiring harness so it's been dorment.

today i sail!

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KenHo said...

BTW doodad, the Spring Equinox is not until 3.09am on September 23rd, which is more like 8 weeks away. Lots of little bear sleepy time left yet.

Ken,
I do believe he was referring to the first day of Spring - 1st September. The equinox (Spring and Autumn) is just the day of the year that there's 12hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. The Summer soltice noon day sun determines the position of the tropics as well as the sun is exactly 90degrees to the earths surface (at the tropics). Another fact is that due to the earth's wobble the position (latitude) of tropics slightly varies from year to year.

Now there's 20 seconds of your life you're never getting back.

Yup, I know all that.
But, the correct turning of the seasons is marked by the solstices and equinoxes, not by the Augustine calander.
You can pretend it's spring on September 1, but Mother Nature might not agree with you.

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sausage said...

KenHo said...

BTW doodad, the Spring Equinox is not until 3.09am on September 23rd, which is more like 8 weeks away. Lots of little bear sleepy time left yet.

Ken,
I do believe he was referring to the first day of Spring - 1st September. The equinox (Spring and Autumn) is just the day of the year that there's 12hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. The equinox noon day sun determines the position of the tropics as well as the sun is exactly 90degrees to the earths surface (at the tropics). Another fact is that due to the earth's wobble the position (latitude) of tropics slightly varies from year to year.

Now there's 20 seconds of your life you're never getting back.

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KenHo said...

Yup, I know all that.
You can pretend it's spring on September 1, but Mother Nature might not agree with you.

I gather you've never lived in the tropics then. Every year the 1st of Sept is like someone turned the heater back on.

Only when I was younger, before I started paying attention to these things.
I agree, the closer to the Equator, the shorter the winter season. It will still be snowing down south well into September though.
I know it's nice in Cairns at present. I think I saw you on the beach at GI, but I don't think I talked to you.
I'm not sure where Doodad is.

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sausage said...

KenHo said...

Yup, I know all that.
You can pretend it's spring on September 1, but Mother Nature might not agree with you.

I gather you've never lived in the tropics then. Every year the 1st of Sept is like someone turned the heater back on.

That sounds groovy. I like old Ricks and semi-hollows in general. My Gretsch is a Setzer Hotrod semi-hollow, which I really dig, and there have been some neat Dusenberg 's that I gassed for badly at times.

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Gestalt said...

^ i'll take a photo and email you.

it's a vintage hollowbody tear drop. similar to a mosrite. i've been rebuilding it (over the past 10 years ) and have some rickenbacker pickups, grovner heads etc to put into it. never bought the rick wiring harness so it's been dorment.

today i sail!

winter getting you down?

huey promising wind and failing to deliver again!!!!

www.indiemoviesonline.com/

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sausage said...

I gather you've never lived in the tropics then. Every year the 1st of Sept is like someone turned the heater back on.

Too damn right. The last two years I've sailed in booming northerlies on the last day of winter/first day of spring. It's like a switch gets flipped.

Here's hoping. Taint spring until a northerly blows anyway. I was hoping to stay home for a month, but that's fading fast.

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ikw777 said...

sausage said...

I gather you've never lived in the tropics then. Every year the 1st of Sept is like someone turned the heater back on.

Too damn right. The last two years I've sailed in booming northerlies on the last day of winter/first day of spring. It's like a switch gets flipped.