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driver100 · August 2020

abacomike said:

nyccarguy said:
Cross posted from CCBA:

I guess this falls in the grey area between CCBA & Cars & Conversations. Back in March I started getting quotes to rip up and repave my driveway which you have all seen (and commented on in my various car pics over the years)

Quote #1 - $11,725.00

Reclaim Existing Asphalt to Stabilize Base
Regrade Base Material & Compact
Apply & Compact Processed Gravel
Install 3" Nominal Class 2 Asphalt
Reset Belgian Block & Backfill with Concrete 210'

Quote #2 - $11,600.00

Excavate & Remove Existing Driveway
Level, Grade, & Compact Gravel Base
Supply & Place 1" - 4" of Gravel if necessary
Supply & Place 3" of Class 2 Asphalt (Compact to 2 1/2")
Redo Belgian Block on Left side of the driveway to create pitch to drain water to back yard. Reset in Concrete

Quote #3 - $12,800.00

Excavate & Remove Old Driveway
Supply Gravel Base Material to meet grade
5 ton vibratory to pave
10 ton vibratory roller for sub-base
Pave 3" of Class 2 Asphalt Compacted to 2 1/2"
Repair Belgian Blocks as needed

Questions? Comments. Suggestions?

My Driveway is about 2,500 square feet.
I would go with the second quote - $11,600 because he was more specific as to what he is going to do and the quote is reasonable compared to the other 2 quotes.

Also, he is starting from ground level up rather than reclaiming old asphalt which saves the other guy time and haul-away expense. Just my opinion, nyc! 🤓

I agree, I think #2s quote is the most complete without trying to make it sound like he is doing more than the others.
#3 has an extra step listed, use 5 ton then 10 ton.......assume the others said the same in one step.
#2 specifically says Supply and Place 1" - 4" of Gravel if necessary.
He describes exactly what he is doing in the last step with the Belgian Blocks.
I would check reviews too. #2's quote is lower but quite often the real professional guy has built his business over time, he has it paid off and he can make a good living even if he charges a bit less. He can be a professional that likes his work and doesn't have to make a killing.

driver100 · August 2020

roadburner said:
Well this is just great; one of my staff just tested positive for. COVID-19. She had contact with everyone in the office as well as the Grand Jury.

That is a total bummer! I assume she has been wearing a mask. It may be contained if she wasn't really close to anyone else....and everyone was distancing and wearing masks. Guess everyone should get tested......big mess with a jury involved too.

houdini1 · August 2020

roadburner said:
Well this is just great; one of my staff just tested positive for. COVID-19. She had contact with everyone in the office as well as the Grand Jury.

My theory is that 50% of the U.S. population would test positive, and that most would never know it if not tested.

jmonroe1 · August 2020

snakeweasel said:

roadburner said:
I saw Billy Joel open for the Beach Boys in 1974- and Bob Seger open for KISS in 1976. Festival seating, I was maybe 10-15 rows back from the stage. My ears were still ringing the next morning. In 1982 I saw Joan Jett open for the Police. Favorite concerts? Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Derby Eve 1976, George Thorogood and the Destroyers in 1983, the Who 1982, and Rush 2011(Time Machine Tour).
You have my deepest sympathy having to sit through a KISS concert.

I gotta slow down when I read these posts. I thought you said kissing contest. When I was in high school I entered a few of those. And I actually won once, honest. Held every year around Christmas time with the proceeds going to The Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Those were the good old days.

jmonroe

jmonroe1 · August 2020

roadburner said:
Well this is just great; one of my staff just tested positive for. COVID-19. She had contact with everyone in the office as well as the Grand Jury.

WHOA, that is definitely not good. Keep us informed as to how you test. That is, until Edmunds puts you in quarantine for a few weeks. If that happened to @driver100, it would kill him.

Seriously, stay safe.

jmonroe

houdini1 · August 2020

CDC just changed their testing guidelines and says you no longer need to be tested if you don't have symptoms.

stickguy · August 2020

Gee, wonder why?

driver100 · August 2020

jmonroe1 said:

roadburner said:
Well this is just great; one of my staff just tested positive for. COVID-19. She had contact with everyone in the office as well as the Grand Jury.
WHOA, that is definitely not good. Keep us informed as to how you test. That is, until Edmunds puts you in quarantine for a few weeks. If that happened to @driver100, it would kill him.

Seriously, stay safe.

jmonroe

It would be worse for my fans though

driver100 · August 2020

houdini1 said:
CDC just changed their testing guidelines and says you no longer need to be tested if you don't have symptoms.

That makes no sense!!!!!!!!

jmonroe1 · August 2020

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

roadburner said:
Well this is just great; one of my staff just tested positive for. COVID-19. She had contact with everyone in the office as well as the Grand Jury.
WHOA, that is definitely not good. Keep us informed as to how you test. That is, until Edmunds puts you in quarantine for a few weeks. If that happened to @driver100, it would kill him.

Seriously, stay safe.

jmonroe

It would be worse for my fans though

Hey @roadburner, do you think your staff member still has any of that COVID-19 hanging around? We’re willing to take our chances.

jmonroe

oldfarmer50 · August 2020

ab348 said:
I drive my ATS very little, it has yet to hit 10,000 miles after nearly 3 years of ownership. Despite that, I have somehow managed to scuff all 4 of its 18" wheels, with the most recent being yesterday on the right rear when I made a right turn at a tight intersection and caught the nearside curb. This is my first car having such low-profile tires (40 aspect ratio on the front, 35 on the rear) and that gives very little protection to the rims. The first one I damaged was the RF about 3 weeks after getting the car when I pulled into a parking space. That annoyed me so much I took it to my tire shop and had them send it out to be refinished. The two on the left side both have marks on them that mystify me because you don't normally deal with curbs on that side and one of them has a mark on one of the spokes well away from the lip of the wheel, so who knows. It almost seems like a waste to refinish those all at this point since I have little doubt further scuffs and dings will occur. I do have the opportunity to do that when I have the winter wheels and tires are put on though, so I am still thinking it over.

At just shy of 14,000 miles my Mustang is looking at 6 years old. My excuse is that I have the rest of the fleet to drive in rotation. If I’m lucky, at least two get driven every day depending on what I’m up to.

oldfarmer50 · August 2020

snakeweasel said:

graphicguy said:
Peter Frampton does or did live in a very tony area of Cincinnati. He was known to pop up at different venues unannounced and play.....for free. Saw him a couple of times, once at a little place called the Blind Lemon. They have an outdoor area and I was sitting there with my GF when he popped up with an Acoustic Guitar and played for about 90 minutes, all by himself. I was probably 15 feet from him. That was a great time.

The late Gerry Garcia’s wife was from Cincinnati. James Brown recorded here (King Records). Funk star Bootsy Collins shows up everywhere in Cincinnati.

Beach Boys used to play for free after a Reds game every summer at Great American Ballpark.

But, although I was only in Jr High, my older sister took me to see Chicago (when they were an avant-garde jam band and not the pop outfit they became after Terry Kath’s death) and took me to see the best concert I’ve ever seen/heard that had a line up of...

-Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
-The Band
-Jesse Collin Young (Youngbloods)
-Santana

Each artist was in their prime. I also smelled a lot of “funny odors” there, that may be familiar to my CO friends.
I have Chicago's first album when they were known as The Chicago Tansit Authority. To bad I no longer have a way to play it.

I saw Chicago twice thanks to a female friend whose brother was the promoter. Years later my wife and I splurged for front row tickets to see The Beach Boys at SPAC. The amps were so loud that we had to leave after 30 minutes with headaches and ringing ears.

oldfarmer50 · August 2020

roadburner said:
Well this is just great; one of my staff just tested positive for. COVID-19. She had contact with everyone in the office as well as the Grand Jury.

What kind of contact? Walking through a room or kissing everybody? I guess in this time of panic it probably doesn’t matter.

oldfarmer50 · August 2020

tjc78 said:

driver100 said:

tjc78 said:

Hard to miss that! It has to be fixed, either before or when you take it in.........personally, I would take it in for a pre-inspection, see what the dealer would charge.......then comparison shop. But, if it is at all close, use the dealer even if it is more, so they can't deny it wasn't repaired to their standards.
Time to guess the estimate.

Got a quick quote to fix. Includes blending of the front door.

$650. Oh wait, I’m thinking what my guy would charge.

roadburner · August 2020

oldfarmer50 said:

roadburner said:
Well this is just great; one of my staff just tested positive for. COVID-19. She had contact with everyone in the office as well as the Grand Jury.
What kind of contact? Walking through a room or kissing everybody? I guess in this time of panic it probably doesn’t matter.

Walking through a room. My wife and I were tested Sunday because we had been to SC: we got those results today and they were both negative. I have an endoscopy scheduled for next week which took a while to schedule. I’m scheduled for another test Saturday as part of prep for the endoscopy. I suspect that’s nixed regardless of test results.

tjc78 · August 2020

oldfarmer50 said:

tjc78 said:

driver100 said:

tjc78 said:

Hard to miss that! It has to be fixed, either before or when you take it in.........personally, I would take it in for a pre-inspection, see what the dealer would charge.......then comparison shop. But, if it is at all close, use the dealer even if it is more, so they can't deny it wasn't repaired to their standards.
Time to guess the estimate.

Got a quick quote to fix. Includes blending of the front door.

$650.

$861 was book price. TJC78 cash deal as I've worked with them before was $750.

abacomike · August 2020

oldfarmer50 said:

snakeweasel said:

graphicguy said:
Peter Frampton does or did live in a very tony area of Cincinnati. He was known to pop up at different venues unannounced and play.....for free. Saw him a couple of times, once at a little place called the Blind Lemon. They have an outdoor area and I was sitting there with my GF when he popped up with an Acoustic Guitar and played for about 90 minutes, all by himself. I was probably 15 feet from him. That was a great time.

The late Gerry Garcia’s wife was from Cincinnati. James Brown recorded here (King Records). Funk star Bootsy Collins shows up everywhere in Cincinnati.

Beach Boys used to play for free after a Reds game every summer at Great American Ballpark.

But, although I was only in Jr High, my older sister took me to see Chicago (when they were an avant-garde jam band and not the pop outfit they became after Terry Kath’s death) and took me to see the best concert I’ve ever seen/heard that had a line up of...

-Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
-The Band
-Jesse Collin Young (Youngbloods)
-Santana

Each artist was in their prime. I also smelled a lot of “funny odors” there, that may be familiar to my CO friends.
I have Chicago's first album when they were known as The Chicago Tansit Authority. To bad I no longer have a way to play it.
I saw Chicago twice thanks to a female friend whose brother was the promoter. Years later my wife and I splurged for front row tickets to see The Beach Boys at SPAC. The amps were so loud that we had to leave after 30 minutes with headaches and ringing ears.

I knew Lee Loughnane (Trumpeter for the group "Chicago") and his wife and kids very well back in 1998-99. His children were students in my school in California. He gave me an LP signed by the entire group. Nice guy - very friendly and very talented.

abacomike · August 2020

oldfarmer50 said:

ab348 said:
I drive my ATS very little, it has yet to hit 10,000 miles after nearly 3 years of ownership. Despite that, I have somehow managed to scuff all 4 of its 18" wheels, with the most recent being yesterday on the right rear when I made a right turn at a tight intersection and caught the nearside curb. This is my first car having such low-profile tires (40 aspect ratio on the front, 35 on the rear) and that gives very little protection to the rims. The first one I damaged was the RF about 3 weeks after getting the car when I pulled into a parking space. That annoyed me so much I took it to my tire shop and had them send it out to be refinished. The two on the left side both have marks on them that mystify me because you don't normally deal with curbs on that side and one of them has a mark on one of the spokes well away from the lip of the wheel, so who knows. It almost seems like a waste to refinish those all at this point since I have little doubt further scuffs and dings will occur. I do have the opportunity to do that when I have the winter wheels and tires are put on though, so I am still thinking it over.
At just shy of 14,000 miles my Mustang is looking at 6 years old. My excuse is that I have the rest of the fleet to drive in rotation. If I’m lucky, at least two get driven every day depending on what I’m up to.

Can't believe the Mustang is already 6 years old. I remember the many months you contemplated your navel before finally getting it at the price you were happy with.🤪😜🤓

stickguy · August 2020

tjc78 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

tjc78 said:

driver100 said:

tjc78 said:

Hard to miss that! It has to be fixed, either before or when you take it in.........personally, I would take it in for a pre-inspection, see what the dealer would charge.......then comparison shop. But, if it is at all close, use the dealer even if it is more, so they can't deny it wasn't repaired to their standards.
Time to guess the estimate.

Got a quick quote to fix. Includes blending of the front door.

$650.
$861 was book price. TJC78 cash deal as I've worked with them before was $750.

not bad. Next time I need something minor done I will have to get the name from you.

stickguy · August 2020

oldfarmer50 said:

ab348 said:
I drive my ATS very little, it has yet to hit 10,000 miles after nearly 3 years of ownership. Despite that, I have somehow managed to scuff all 4 of its 18" wheels, with the most recent being yesterday on the right rear when I made a right turn at a tight intersection and caught the nearside curb. This is my first car having such low-profile tires (40 aspect ratio on the front, 35 on the rear) and that gives very little protection to the rims. The first one I damaged was the RF about 3 weeks after getting the car when I pulled into a parking space. That annoyed me so much I took it to my tire shop and had them send it out to be refinished. The two on the left side both have marks on them that mystify me because you don't normally deal with curbs on that side and one of them has a mark on one of the spokes well away from the lip of the wheel, so who knows. It almost seems like a waste to refinish those all at this point since I have little doubt further scuffs and dings will occur. I do have the opportunity to do that when I have the winter wheels and tires are put on though, so I am still thinking it over.
At just shy of 14,000 miles my Mustang is looking at 6 years old. My excuse is that I have the rest of the fleet to drive in rotation. If I’m lucky, at least two get driven every day depending on what I’m up to.

my TLX crossed 9,000 tonight driving to the market. I think that car needs a high speed run soon to clean it out.

RDX now over 2,300 miles, thanks to the trip to N. Vermont. That car had plenty of burn out the gunk time.

imidazol97 · August 2020

This trip down memory lane with reliving concerts we've been to is depressing me. I think I enjoyed the Supremes at the Univ. of Cincinnati Armory Fieldhouse. But I couldn't remember what year. I was piecing
together how I even was asked if I wanted a ticket from a group someone had bought. It must have been a fellow grad student at Miami Univ. May 27, 1967. Now I recall the date.

That was 53 years ago. A long, long time.

Other than not being air conditioned and the seats being flat slabs with numbers lined on them for seat assignments, it was a good experience. I remember the performers were really perspiring because it was
so warm.

imidazol97 · August 2020

Even worse, I recalled an earlier concert performance by the Serendipity Singers. I'll no one else here is old enough to remember them, let alone have seen them live.

Sailing Away? Don't Let the Rain Come Down. And the one banned on some radio, Beans in My Ears.
Risque.

jmonroe1 · August 2020

imidazol97 said:
Even worse, I recalled an earlier concert performance by the Serendipity Singers. I'll no one else here is old enough to remember them, let alone have seen them live.

Sailing Away? Don't Let the Rain Come Down. And the one banned on some radio, Beans in My Ears.
Risque.

I remember that group. Bad year though...was married a few months later in that year.

jmonroe

snakeweasel · August 2020

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

roadburner said:
Well this is just great; one of my staff just tested positive for. COVID-19. She had contact with everyone in the office as well as the Grand Jury.
WHOA, that is definitely not good. Keep us informed as to how you test. That is, until Edmunds puts you in quarantine for a few weeks. If that happened to @driver100, it would kill him.

Seriously, stay safe.

jmonroe

It would be worse for my fans though

Both of them would be OK.

snakeweasel · August 2020

driver100 said:

houdini1 said:
CDC just changed their testing guidelines and says you no longer need to be tested if you don't have symptoms.
That makes no sense!!!!!!!!

This is 2020, nothing makes sense this year.

suydam · August 2020

We are still going to a few concerts a year, so not in the past for us. We were supposed to see Taj Majal in October, but I doubt if it’s happening. And I think we are slated to see Tedeschi Trucks next time they swing through here, but who knows when that will be?

cdnpinhead · August 2020

imidazol97 said:
That was 53 years ago. A long, long time.

When I was in elementary school in Grand Junction, CO, in the mid-'50s,, 72 years earlier would have been 1883. I'm 72 now, and the '50s don't seem impossibly long ago.

Go figure.

oldfarmer50 · August 2020

tjc78 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

tjc78 said:

driver100 said:

tjc78 said:

Hard to miss that! It has to be fixed, either before or when you take it in.........personally, I would take it in for a pre-inspection, see what the dealer would charge.......then comparison shop. But, if it is at all close, use the dealer even if it is more, so they can't deny it wasn't repaired to their standards.
Time to guess the estimate.

Got a quick quote to fix. Includes blending of the front door.

$650.
$861 was book price. TJC78 cash deal as I've worked with them before was $750.

So according to Price is Right rules, I win!

oldfarmer50 · August 2020

abacomike said:

oldfarmer50 said:

ab348 said:
I drive my ATS very little, it has yet to hit 10,000 miles after nearly 3 years of ownership. Despite that, I have somehow managed to scuff all 4 of its 18" wheels, with the most recent being yesterday on the right rear when I made a right turn at a tight intersection and caught the nearside curb. This is my first car having such low-profile tires (40 aspect ratio on the front, 35 on the rear) and that gives very little protection to the rims. The first one I damaged was the RF about 3 weeks after getting the car when I pulled into a parking space. That annoyed me so much I took it to my tire shop and had them send it out to be refinished. The two on the left side both have marks on them that mystify me because you don't normally deal with curbs on that side and one of them has a mark on one of the spokes well away from the lip of the wheel, so who knows. It almost seems like a waste to refinish those all at this point since I have little doubt further scuffs and dings will occur. I do have the opportunity to do that when I have the winter wheels and tires are put on though, so I am still thinking it over.
At just shy of 14,000 miles my Mustang is looking at 6 years old. My excuse is that I have the rest of the fleet to drive in rotation. If I’m lucky, at least two get driven every day depending on what I’m up to.
Can't believe the Mustang is already 6 years old. I remember the many months you contemplated your navel before finally getting it at the price you were happy with.🤪😜🤓

I procrastinate on almost all my car purchases. I just don’t lay out my angst here any more until I’m close to pulling the trigger.

That’s why I’m in awe of some of the posters who make a purchase seemingly on the spur of the moment.

driver100 · August 2020

jmonroe1 said:

imidazol97 said:
Even worse, I recalled an earlier concert performance by the Serendipity Singers. I'll no one else here is old enough to remember them, let alone have seen them live.

Sailing Away? Don't Let the Rain Come Down. And the one banned on some radio, Beans in My Ears.
Risque.
I remember that group. Bad year though...was married a few months later in that year.

jmonroe

This information may come in handy some day....I will keep it on file!

imidazol97 · August 2020

jmonroe1 said:

imidazol97 said:
Even worse, I recalled an earlier concert performance by the Serendipity Singers. I'll no one else here is old enough to remember them, let alone have seen them live.

Sailing Away? Don't Let the Rain Come Down. And the one banned on some radio, Beans in My Ears.
Risque.
I remember that group. Bad year though...was married a few months later in that year.

jmonroe

I remember it because I took a beautiful young lady to the performance. It was in a small auditorium and was much like some of the off-the-cuff performances by artists some here describe. Very up close and personal. The group performing was large 12? 16? 18? total members.

I'm sure this information will help someone here.

imidazol97 · August 2020

Another Tesla accident on autopilot. What's with some of the Tesla drivers?

The local morning talk show host and his producer were betting he was watching
x-rated video on his phone mentioned in the article.

https://electrek.co/2020/08/26/tesla-driver-autopilot-watching-movie-when-crash-police-car/

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/14/tesla-on-autopilot-hits-police-vehicle-which-hits-ambulance-driver-possibly-drunk-police/

qbrozen · August 2020

imidazol97 said:
Another Tesla accident on autopilot. What's with some of the Tesla drivers?

The local morning talk show host and his producer were betting he was watching
x-rated video on his phone mentioned in the article.

https://electrek.co/2020/08/26/tesla-driver-autopilot-watching-movie-when-crash-police-car/

Well, maybe the Tesla was low on juice and was trying to get itself to the Charger.

*buh-dum-bum*

graphicguy · August 2020

stickguy said:
Gee, wonder why?

Thinking the exact same thing!

graphicguy · August 2020

ab348 said:
I drive my ATS very little, it has yet to hit 10,000 miles after nearly 3 years of ownership. Despite that, I have somehow managed to scuff all 4 of its 18" wheels, with the most recent being yesterday on the right rear when I made a right turn at a tight intersection and caught the nearside curb. This is my first car having such low-profile tires (40 aspect ratio on the front, 35 on the rear) and that gives very little protection to the rims. The first one I damaged was the RF about 3 weeks after getting the car when I pulled into a parking space. That annoyed me so much I took it to my tire shop and had them send it out to be refinished. The two on the left side both have marks on them that mystify me because you don't normally deal with curbs on that side and one of them has a mark on one of the spokes well away from the lip of the wheel, so who knows. It almost seems like a waste to refinish those all at this point since I have little doubt further scuffs and dings will occur. I do have the opportunity to do that when I have the winter wheels and tires are put on though, so I am still thinking it over.

So, knowing that you would only drive the ATS (the best car Cadillac has made in a decade, IMHO) 10K miles, would you buy it again?

graphicguy · August 2020

tjc78 said:

graphicguy said:

snakeweasel said:

graphicguy said:
Peter Frampton does or did live in a very tony area of Cincinnati. He was known to pop up at different venues unannounced and play.....for free. Saw him a couple of times, once at a little place called the Blind Lemon. They have an outdoor area and I was sitting there with my GF when he popped up with an Acoustic Guitar and played for about 90 minutes, all by himself. I was probably 15 feet from him. That was a great time.

The late Gerry Garcia’s wife was from Cincinnati. James Brown recorded here (King Records). Funk star Bootsy Collins shows up everywhere in Cincinnati.

Beach Boys used to play for free after a Reds game every summer at Great American Ballpark.

But, although I was only in Jr High, my older sister took me to see Chicago (when they were an avant-garde jam band and not the pop outfit they became after Terry Kath’s death) and took me to see the best concert I’ve ever seen/heard that had a line up of...

-Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
-The Band
-Jesse Collin Young (Youngbloods)
-Santana

Each artist was in their prime. I also smelled a lot of “funny odors” there, that may be familiar to my CO friends.
I have Chicago's first album when they were known as The Chicago Tansit Authority. To bad I no longer have a way to play it.
Cool...I had the CTA album, Chicago (silver) and the Chicago Live set (3 albums). I lost interest when they started going "pop".

Mentioned before, I had was redoing a vintage Thorens turntable. I've been working on it for a couple of years. Parts are hard to come by. So, I've never been able to play it reliably. Thinking of inviting in one of the new "internet only" turntable companies (i.e. U-Turn or Fluance).
I’d turn to Ebay and get a mid-late 70s Technics, Pioneer or Marantz. Many people restore those and they are great IMO

I love my Technics SL-1900. It wasn’t a super high end model back in the day but it’s built like a tank and sounds awesome even with a low end cartridge.

Kinda keeping an eye out. I can fix those vintage turntables, if parts are available. What I can’t do is fabricate the parts that are no longer available, which is the situation I’m in with the vintage Thorens.

stickguy · August 2020

Saw another (well, likely the same one) of those orange stingers driving around yesterday. Interesting color. I think that is only on (only comes that color?) the special RWD performance package model?

stickguy · August 2020

graphicguy said:

tjc78 said:

graphicguy said:

snakeweasel said:

graphicguy said:
Peter Frampton does or did live in a very tony area of Cincinnati. He was known to pop up at different venues unannounced and play.....for free. Saw him a couple of times, once at a little place called the Blind Lemon. They have an outdoor area and I was sitting there with my GF when he popped up with an Acoustic Guitar and played for about 90 minutes, all by himself. I was probably 15 feet from him. That was a great time.

The late Gerry Garcia’s wife was from Cincinnati. James Brown recorded here (King Records). Funk star Bootsy Collins shows up everywhere in Cincinnati.

Beach Boys used to play for free after a Reds game every summer at Great American Ballpark.

But, although I was only in Jr High, my older sister took me to see Chicago (when they were an avant-garde jam band and not the pop outfit they became after Terry Kath’s death) and took me to see the best concert I’ve ever seen/heard that had a line up of...

-Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
-The Band
-Jesse Collin Young (Youngbloods)
-Santana

Each artist was in their prime. I also smelled a lot of “funny odors” there, that may be familiar to my CO friends.
I have Chicago's first album when they were known as The Chicago Tansit Authority. To bad I no longer have a way to play it.
Cool...I had the CTA album, Chicago (silver) and the Chicago Live set (3 albums). I lost interest when they started going "pop".

Mentioned before, I had was redoing a vintage Thorens turntable. I've been working on it for a couple of years. Parts are hard to come by. So, I've never been able to play it reliably. Thinking of inviting in one of the new "internet only" turntable companies (i.e. U-Turn or Fluance).
I’d turn to Ebay and get a mid-late 70s Technics, Pioneer or Marantz. Many people restore those and they are great IMO

I love my Technics SL-1900. It wasn’t a super high end model back in the day but it’s built like a tank and sounds awesome even with a low end cartridge.
Kinda keeping an eye out. I can fix those vintage turntables, if parts are available. What I can’t do is fabricate the parts that are no longer available, which is the situation I’m in with the vintage Thorens.

My TT from the mid-late 80s is still in the box on a shelf. Technics SLQD33 I think it is. Probably still works, though all the vinyl is long gone.

kyfdx · August 2020

suydam said:
We are still going to a few concerts a year, so not in the past for us. We were supposed to see Taj Majal in October, but I doubt if it’s happening. And I think we are slated to see Tedeschi Trucks next time they swing through here, but who knows when that will be?

We saw Tedeschi Trucks in 2018. They were great!

ab348 · August 2020

kyfdx said:

We saw Tedeschi Trucks in 2018. They were great!

That not a brand of truck with which I am familiar. Are they imported from Europe?

ab348 · August 2020

graphicguy said:

So, knowing that you would only drive the ATS (the best car Cadillac has made in a decade, IMHO) 10K miles, would you buy it again?

Well, I was in a position coming off a lease where I had to get something and this one was a pretty good deal. I tried a few other cars and didn't particularly like them, and there really wasn't anything that I had the hots for. A couple of months earlier I was sorely tempted by a demo 2017 GTI at the dealer nearby, but after dithering too long it got sold so that was that. I knew going in that whatever I bought wouldn't get driven much although I wasn't counting on the health issues that have limited that even more. My thinking at the time was to get off the lease train, buy something and keep it for a while. Of course I hadn't counted on that itch I get whenever I've had a car for a while. As for the ATS itself it has been a great car, no issues whatsoever except for those self-inflicted ones with the wheels. I think it looks better than the sedans Caddy is offering today.

jmonroe1 · August 2020

imidazol97 said:
Another Tesla accident on autopilot. What's with some of the Tesla drivers?

The local morning talk show host and his producer were betting he was watching
x-rated video on his phone mentioned in the article.

https://electrek.co/2020/08/26/tesla-driver-autopilot-watching-movie-when-crash-police-car/

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/14/tesla-on-autopilot-hits-police-vehicle-which-hits-ambulance-driver-possibly-drunk-police/

@ab348, I gonna let someone else say it.

jmonroe

jmonroe1 · August 2020

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

imidazol97 said:
Even worse, I recalled an earlier concert performance by the Serendipity Singers. I'll no one else here is old enough to remember them, let alone have seen them live.

Sailing Away? Don't Let the Rain Come Down. And the one banned on some radio, Beans in My Ears.
Risque.
I remember that group. Bad year though...was married a few months later in that year.

jmonroe

This information may come in handy some day....I will keep it on file!

If @roadburner comes through with my request you won’t be here some day.

jmonroe

snakeweasel · August 2020

Well I finally replaced my laptop that gave up the ghost a couple of years ago (still had a tower computer for our main computer). But since they are discussing the possibility that we wont be back into the workplace until next year at the earliest and that we are discussing that we might still be doing work from home a couple of times a week once we get back to "normal" I decided to upgrade my office and computing. Most of my posting lately has been on my tablet but now back with a more normal computer.

I got a HP ENVY that Best Buy gave me for $100 off since the one laptop that they had on display that we were going to get was out of stock with no known date of any coming in was $100 less. So Best Buy gave us this one, which has more functions for the same price. It's a 2 in 1 which will flip the screen all the way over and turn it into a tablet. Really liking it.

jmonroe1 · August 2020

ab348 said:

kyfdx said:

We saw Tedeschi Trucks in 2018. They were great!
That not a brand of truck with which I am familiar. Are they imported from Europe?

I’m with you but from what I can gleen from the post they’re all 2-leg drive. Just not sure if they’re front or rear drive.

jmonroe

imidazol97 · August 2020

I'm watching hurricane damage assessment on cable.

At least warning gave time for people to leave. Those without power get lots of sympathy from me.

fintail · August 2020

Combine techdork arrogance with an inaccurately named feature ("autopilot" is misleading at best), and there you go.

imidazol97 said:
Another Tesla accident on autopilot. What's with some of the Tesla drivers?

snakeweasel · August 2020

fintail said:
Combine techdork arrogance with an inaccurately named feature ("autopilot" is misleading at best), and there you go.

imidazol97 said:
Another Tesla accident on autopilot. What's with some of the Tesla drivers?

Should they rename it "auto kamikaze pilot"?

driver100 · August 2020

fintail said:
Combine techdork arrogance with an inaccurately named feature ("autopilot" is misleading at best), and there you go.

imidazol97 said:
Another Tesla accident on autopilot. What's with some of the Tesla drivers?

If someone makes an invention that can improve our lives and make the world safer.....there will always be somebody will find a way to misuse it and seriously injure or kill themselves.

driver100 · August 2020

jmonroe1 said:

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

imidazol97 said:
Even worse, I recalled an earlier concert performance by the Serendipity Singers. I'll no one else here is old enough to remember them, let alone have seen them live.

Sailing Away? Don't Let the Rain Come Down. And the one banned on some radio, Beans in My Ears.
Risque.
I remember that group. Bad year though...was married a few months later in that year.

jmonroe

This information may come in handy some day....I will keep it on file!
If @roadburner comes through with my request you won’t be here some day.

jmonroe

Yeh, but that quote has been left at my lawyers office and it will be opened on that eventful day.

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