3:30 AM Central USA, started my day about 2 hours ago with the 'help' of three felines. One batting my face (Scar), one outside the bedroom window screaming to come in and eat (P.T.), and one (Emoci) just sitting and STARING at me...she's always very quiet vocally, you can barely hear her speak, but she has the loudest damned stare I've ever seen in my life. August...typically a lousy month (for me) but a good Clapton record. And onward we roll through the fog, courtesy of…
Well, it's almost 8 AM Sunday morning, the cats have been fed (and fed...and fed...but that's a different story) and the birds have been fed and the squirrels have been fed and I have mucho caffeine in me and I may just almost be prepared to go out to Walmart and battle the seething horde. I don't think I ever really dig deep down into how problematic my aversion to being around people has become. It began manifesting itself a few years before COVID struck, and I decided in…
I try...I really do. But I always get the new user assholes that come blasting into myLot (a different site I am on) and start gleefully posting away plagiarized crap, and I send them a message saying that will get them banned and they might want to read the rules, and I get back replies like the well thought-out one from a particular gentleman this morning that said "Fuck you ban me I don't care". Okay, fine, I'll pass the message on to TPTB. lol
Morning vinyl spin, going round-and-round with Alice Cooper's 'Welcome To My Nightmare'
Saw this today and couldn't help but think it is basically true in a way...
Morning Squirrel Watch out front of the house at the Squirrel Tree (the Squirrel Tree is a sweet gum tree that I put bird and squirrel feed at a couple of times each day). Emoci loves to sit and watch the squirrels as they come down to feed.
Are ye still a-livin' or did the shark get ya?
Capturing a few photos of 'moci sitting in a 'sumbean' this morning when we were suddenly photo-bombed by a squirrel.
And tonight, I would like to leave with the following question: If I buy food with half the fat and half the calories, should I eat twice as much to maintain the status quo? G'night Noisers
I was getting all cocky because I heard the word that I have the biggest dick in town was spreading, and then I was informed that no, I must have misunderstood, word was spreading that I AM the biggest dick in town...
Thank you @Noise.cash for the tagging and hashtag abilities #ilikeitnoisy
If people just weren't so damned peopley I would probably like them better. Or maybe if they were more like cats... It seems no matter how much I 'dumb down' some ideas there are some people that just can't quite latch on to them. They have it stuck in their narrow little head that things work 'this way' even though no, they work 'that way'. Throw in a language barrier or two and I'm ready to start shooting about 30 minutes after I get online most mornings.
These lilies are the only thing I currently have blooming. Except for the blooming cats, they are always up to no good. lol
Got a NEW spam call today the likes of which I had never received previously, evidently the 'U.S. Health Department' would like me to sign up with their 'new health plan called 'PfizerCare'. lol
Well, that concerns me just a little. Looked outside checking on Emoci and there was a fox about 15 feet away from her standing in the road watching her. I don't think it could 'take' her, it doesn't have enough of a size advantage, but it looks pretty skinny and a bit desperate for its next meal, so I called her on inside (the cat, not the fox). It does, however, answer the question I had been asking myself: yes, the fox still lives in the neighborhood. Checking back, looks…
Saw a post from an #exwife on #facebook and wanted to say "See this? THIS is why we are no longer married" but I know what kind of argument that would start because that is why we are no longer married. lol Of course, that is my side of the argument - HER side would probably be that we are no longer together because I am an opinionated old sumbitch. And you know what? She could be right.
I put a donut hole in my lunchbox and closed it but of course upon doing that I had a hole in my lunch bucket and it must have fallen out through the hole at which point there was no longer a hole in the bucket so I didn't have a snack because it was empty when I opened it. At least Frank said that must have been what happened...funny how his didn't fall out of HIS lunchbox.
Yes, I have a channel, but I don't post there much. In fact, for the most part I don't post in any channels or chambers. There have been several times I was going to comment to something a 'friend' said only to realize I had to join a channel to say anything, and in my honest opinion that greatly reduces my freedom...I can see (in a way) requiring people to 'join' a channel to create a post in it, but making them join just to comment to a 'friend'? That is a bit too much in…
P.T. says naps are very good, but cat-naps are very best. Unrelenting rain drove him inside earlier and he's decided to stay for a bit.
So here I was, all ready to begin a bright new day, caffeine and nicotine and cats at hand, and to the Internet I go...and people were there again. The InterWebs would be a fantastic place if it weren't for all the damned people. Oh, some of them are fine, possibly about 1.84623578% of you...the rest of them, though, cause me to develop a severe headache after about 15 seconds...if there is a God, He/She/It must love stupid people because they made billions of them. Oh,…
Right here shows a great example of how stupid many spammers are. This person seriously asked why I thought something was a copy/paste, as if they were saying it wasn't. That 'Oh' reply at the end cracks me up. lol https://noise.cash/post/l2v9g550
Damn that turntable is a sexy thang...I saw the UPS truck pulling up at the end of the drive and I met the guy at the truck door, I wanted this in the house NOW. Another chunk of change in my quest for the Perfect Sound...this sounds great already, but I have a cartridge/stylus (needle) set that cost almost as much as the turntable itself that I'll be putting on it eventually. And I have different speakers coming soon...might change the power amp...I'm just never quite…
So I went to mark something as 'spam' in my email inbox and Yahoo asked if I would rather unsubscribe to the site instead of marking it as 'spam'. NO. Mark that fucker as SPAM because I did not subscribe to it in the first place.
Someone alleged that something I wrote is a 'bad joke'. No...and for that specific reason, I just wrote a bad joke (100% original): Why are there 4 suns when sailing the ocean? Because there are four sea-suns.
Another Friday the 13th, third one this year. But to me it feels just like a Friday the 12th or a Friday the 11th or any other Friday. All these people scared of the number 13 must not like donuts much. Now why would I bring up donuts and 13? Because a box of a 'baker's dozen' contains THIRTEEN donuts. And if 13 freaks you out, just drop by the house and I'll eat the extra donut so you only have 12. ;-)
It seems that most days recently I have absolutely no patience. I don't know if The-Powers-That-Be only give me so much patience each month and I already used my monthly allowance or if there is some other reason...maybe I listened to Alice Cooper's 'No More Mr Nice Guy' too many times or something. I dunno. Maybe I'm just an asshole. Or maybe my blood sugar is out of whack again and it is affecting my personality. Or maybe IDGAF. Probably the latter. Here is a photo of Scar…
Bounced off my head (rather hard) and landed on the Durango, I think it stunned itself because I was able to snap several very close shots before it buzzed away (I actually went inside to get the camera and figured it would be gone before I went back outside).
Get. The. Hell. Out. Of. My. Yard. Not sure what I missed, but Scar is being a total dick to P.T. this morning. It may turn into a major fight before it is over, because P.T. accepts Scar as the 'dominant' male, but he is not scared of him and actually has a decent size advantage - and Scar is really pushing that dominance thing today. Emoci (my female) is fixed, so it is not an argument over a piece of tail...
Noticed something kind of cool with the new turntable. It has a glass platter instead of metal, and if you play colored vinyl, the platter picks up the color of the record. But now that I have a new turntable, and put a cartridge/stylus (needle) on it that costs almost as much as the player, and I have some really good speakers, I can hear what a piece of crap I have for an amp (actually it isn't crap but it is not audiophile quality) so tomorrow I'll make the 2½ hour drive…
Full grown sausage in the front yard of the empty house for sale catercorner from me this afternoon. Earlier this year I had 5 groundhog pups living at the end of my yard. Quite possibly the most skittish critters I get, even more so than the fox.
Some dude that tells me they research everything before making statements then proceeded to say I was a Trumper. Which, needless to say, completely invalidates their claim to researching before running their mouth. :-)
Well, St Louis/Alpha Tech Electronics was a bust. They did have an extremely nice old wooden cased Kenwood - for $900.00 - that kept trying to seduce me, and I almost succumbed to her siren song...'almost' being the operative word here. Damn...she sure was a beautiful piece of work, and I did seriously consider it for a few minutes, but I had my heart set on an older model Marantz - of which they had nary a one - so I came home empty handed. But tomorrow...tomorrow I am…
Instead of playing the game @Porwest deletes the posts. Dammit, I love statements coming from completely out of nowhere that I have no clue what they are in relation to and I start a dialog to find the answer (or some shit like that anyway) but ol' @Porwest just deletes it. Did I mention @Porwest did that?
'moci and Scar take up their accustomed positions waiting to go outside this morning. For some reason instead of sitting in front of the door, they always choose to sit on top of the tower speaker next to the door...maybe they think I'll see them easier?
I don't know why so many people have problems doing QR tips...I don't know why people use wallets other than what Noise.cash suggests we use. It takes me 20 seconds to complete a QR tip. I thought it was 10, but I hadn't actually timed it, so I shot a screen video while I tipped someone earlier. 20 seconds to QR tip someone using a Bitcoin.com wallet. Click click click click click click DONE basically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fAYxMwn0tg
Spent most of the day getting this all set up. Sorted through my albums and boxed up 1,061 that I am selling off (the guy is coming the first of September) and moved the other 779 albums and shelves from my bedroom into my living room. Still need to completely alphabetize them (I do have all the A's and B's and etc together) and decided while I was doing all this I would hook up the Kenwood a/v receiver with the Bose 101 speakers for video use and have the Marantz and…
And in this corner, weighing in at 17 ounces, we have the contender to the title... Looks like the squirrels are getting ready to square off against each other in a boxing match. These are both the same specie of squirrel, namely Eastern Grey Squirrels. It is not really understood why, but all of the squirrels in this area carry a recessive gene that causes albinism, and the pure white squirrels are nothing more than an albino grey squirrel, they both carry the same DNA but…
This was a pain in the ass. I don't have Photo Shop so I used Paint to take the background out with. I really like the finished look, but I don't think I'll try it again any time soon... #VinylJunkie #Photography
Someone I don't know from Adam or Steve likes two of my posts and then wants my facebook user name? Um...nope, sorry, and now you are blocked. I'm choosy about whom I associate with in the first place, and you are NOT one of my choices. I get enough SPAM on my phone daily...and the occasional facebook thing...I don't need more of it.
I really do not understand this crap with Yahoo. A few times lately I have marked mail I received as SPAM and suddenly Yahoo is asking if I would rather just 'unsubscribe'. No, Yahoo, I do not want to unsubscribe BECAUSE I NEVER SUBSCRIBED TO THAT SITE IN THE FIRST PLACE. That is one of the definitions of spam, unwanted contact from something/someone you have no interest in and did not ask for any information about. So why are you asking me if I want to 'unsubscribe' to…
Silly brats. They really want to be outside, but it is raining, so all three are under the Durango to keep from getting wet. I stood at the door calling and none of them are interested in being inside right now. And, of course, Scar is pretty sure Emoci needs a bath. lol #Caturday
Now, if people want to be vegans or vegetarians or whatever particular brand of non-meat eating creatures, that's fine with me. After all, that leaves me more bacon. lol But please, people, can you stop citing the Bible as your reason? Jesus didn't hand out bread and broccoli, He handed out bread and FISH, The last time I checked, fish are not a vegetable. Just one more of my quite unpopular opinions. :-) (photo from…
Sunday morning with the second Pearl Jam album, Vs - which was almost named 'Five Against One'. Hard to pick a favorite cut from this - as soon as I decide "Yeah, this is the one" the NEXT song starts and it's "Well...maybe it is THIS one". But I wanted to leave a link to at least one song...with my last name being Ratcliffe, maybe this would be appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFXCEe3Aos8
"We don't need no education." I call bullshit. You evidently DO need some education or you would realize the proper sentence should read "We don't need any education." But no, since you don't need no education, you'll keep espousing tripe like that. Dammit...I'm just trying to enjoy some rock 'n' roll. lol
#vinyljunkie #pinkfloyd #TheWall The digital world entirely changed the art of photography. Nowadays even complete novices can turn out professional-looking photos as easy as the click of a button (or several clicks as the case may be). I'm an amateur photographer, and while I do get some great shots, quite often they are accidental, and at times I use the moniker "The Accidental Photographer" because quite often I was not trying to get 'that shot', I just got lucky. And…
When you have only THIS much peanut butter, and more and more people keep showing up to eat, some of those people are not going to get a sandwich. Unless you get more peanut butter... NoiseCashFund is not adding more peanut butter. They are using the same amount they have used for several months, but a LOT more people are showing up wanting a sandwich...so a lot of people are going hungry. This is NOT to say NCF needs to add more. None of us should simply expect to get paid…
Scar is tolerating Pete, but it doesn't go much beyond that. There haven't been any major fights, but Scar does smack him around - for absolutely no reason - other than he is Scar and it is HIS house. And this, in turn, causes Emoci to go smack Pete - for no reason - other than Scar did it. But since Pete has been here every single day for the past 2½ months, I am assuming it is just Scar making sure Pete understands who the dominant cat of this household is. (Which, in…
One of the horde of raccoons in the neighborhood showed up at the #SquirrelTree for an early morning snack today. Most of them are fairly used to me and will keep eating as long as I don't get closer than about 2 meters. They don't seem too bothered by the cats, either. Pete came out to the tree to see what I was taking photos of and decided he'd get into the action as well.
Okay, no idea why that happened. I fell asleep around noon yesterday (after having an average night's sleep Sunday) and just woke up about an hour ago (3 AM), which means I slept 15 hours. Maybe my blood sugar got out of whack because right now it is 174 and it should not be that high after fasting for 15 hours. ANYWAY, I have labs scheduled for today (fasting) so I won't get to eat breakfast for about 4 more hours...I hate it when this crap happens. Watched 1,062 albums…
R.I.P. to drummer Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones. I was spinning the Stones album 'Goats Head Soup' earlier today, and then a few hours later Mr. Watts death was announced. Thank you for 59 years of music. Charlie Watts was 80. #TheRollingStones
"You don't have to live like a refugee" But you can if you want to. Don't let ME tell you how to live your life. Full ahead and Damn The Torpedoes. This album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is currently selling for between $100 & $125 used (this is a special 2-album set released in 2010). I should probably make a list of the albums I have that do sell for a decent amount so when I die they won't get just thrown out. https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2576053
Well, that worked out about as well as it could have. I knew it was gonna cost me a chunk of change to get my Durango fixed, so I decided to call the repair shop since I got $1,000 from selling a load of albums...and the estimate for fixing the exhaust (replacing the manifold) and putting in a new radiator and mechanical cooling fan comes to just over $900.00. This means I don't have to touch any money I have in the bank. And even though it will take about a week to get it…
Well fuck, get ready for another influx of spammers. That is pretty much all an 'affiliate' program does is bring in 20 spammers for every 1 legit profile . And of course that divides the 'pie slices' even more. Watch as even more people begin to complain about not getting tips. Guess I'll go read a book.
So when I went and picked up the Marantz receiver a few days ago (9) I drove past a marijuana dispensary I didn't know about. It's 20 miles farther away than the one I always go to, but I decided to go check it out this morning since I needed something new to smoke (a person builds up a tolerance after so long, it's best to keep several strains handy and switch off-and-on). ANYWAY on the way there (northbound) I saw a few instances of people out walking the highway…
The only album by the band Chicago Transit Authority. Of course, they did release several dozen albums after changing the name to simply Chicago, but in my opinion that very first album was the best they ever did. This was quite more 'rocking' that their other releases, and it was an extremely rare thing for a band to make their very first release a double-lp. This is quite possibly my favorite cut from it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxtoJeHPCho
I keep meaning to wear this shirt when I go to the dispensary and I keep forgetting. I used to be an inland member of the National Coast Guard...we guarded America's inner harbour. Together with all the alphabet agencies (FBI CIA NSA ATF ETC) we were tasked with Operation WOW - the War On Weed. Many a time we rolled in on a bunch of unsuspecting reefer rapscallions loading their Pipes of Death before going out on a mad killing spree from the Evil Effects of the Pot. We…
And I got in the car, started the engine, put the shifter in reverse, and thought "This takes me back." Thank you very much, tip jar is on the bar, I'll be here all evening... #FridayNightFunnies
"Just throw me on a fire and break out the wienie sticks" Death and dying seems to be on my mind lately. It's been over 6 years since the stroke that left me laying on the floor unable to get up. A week in intensive care, and then shuffled off to a 'care home' for a bit, which was a horror all on its own...but I got to where I could walk again with a cane, and then finally I was able to put the cane aside and walk unaided. Yes, occasionally you may see me weave just a…
I have at least three white vinyl releases...maybe 4....hang on, I gotta go look now... Okay, four. I have Jimmy Page/Black Crowes - Live at the Greek (a three-lp set), The Four Horsemen - Nobody Said It Was Easy (double lp), Humble Pie - Joint Effort, and this one: Live- Secret Samadhi (which is a double lp set). Secret Samadhi is one of those that I just happened to come across a copy for a good price ($35.00) a few years ago - and is now selling for twice that price.…
Emoci enjoys her 12th breakfast. No, not really, but this little girl LOVES her food...and Scar's food, and Petey's food, and...yeah, it's like that. lol She's a lil' fattbutt but a sweetheart. #cats
#VinylJunkie I knew this was going to be a royal pain in the ass. I've sold between 1300-1400 albums in the last month and I thought I had 780 now. Evidently I miscounted, because last night I recounted and I came up with 696. So then I went through my Discogs (a site devoted to collecting music) collection database and deleted everything I sold. And according to that, I still had 704 albums...so I decided to reorganize the shelves and see where the error was. And so far…
"That lil' ol' band from Texas..." #VinylJunkie #ZZTop Which I've watched live 5 times now. And won't get to watch again since the death of bassist/co-vocalist Dusty Hill last month. :-( Three guys, no frills, that just absolutely filled the stage with their presence. Every show I saw they were a down-tight boogie band with that distinctive sound not quite like anyone else. This morning I am spinning their sixth release, 1979's 'Degüello'. "I'm Bad I'm Nationwide", "Cheap…
So I made this here channel? Right here? This here channel right here? Yeah, I made that so I could gather all my album-art/music posts all in the same place? Just in case I forgot to tag it #VinylJunkies? And now I am making this here post right here right here in this channel? Because I am a Vinyl Junkie? M'kay? And I needed to post something to activate the channel? And this is it right here? (The link is to a song from the album 'Acoustiverse' by my friend Jake Martin…
Morning Coughee Moment August 31, 2021 Another day, another cup (or two) of coughee. Actually I should call it four 'cups' daily since I drink 2-20 ounce mugs every morning and the average 'coughee cup' is 10-12 ounces. (This works out to a bit over a liter daily for those not familiar with alternate measurements.) Can you believe I have already been 'working' on writing this for over 30 minutes? (I'm sorry but I don't know how to convert time metrically so however long that…
#vinylrecords #vinyl #records Fuel - 'Sunburn' (1998) "Cause I have found All that shimmers in this world Is sure to fade away Again..." I 'found' this band because of karaoke, actually. A guy I knew sang a song I'd never heard before and I loved it, so when he got done I asked him about it and he told me the name of the band; when I left later I went out to WalMart and bought a copy of the CD. It spent several weeks in the player in the car. A really hard album to find on…
THE ANNUAL SCREAMING OF THE CICADAS August and September seems to be the period that these rambunctious lil' fuckers are most active where I live (southern Illinois USA) and I decided to shoot a piece of video from my front porch showing what I hear during this period from dawn 'til dusk. These are not of the 17-year or 13-year varieties, these are the plain ol' annual scream-every-damn-year sons-of-bitches. I have 26 adult trees on the property. TWENTY-SIX. All full of the…
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