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My neighbor fishes the Seneca Lake trout derby every year and she promised to bring me one. Bake or grill? I don't have a smoker.

I go with my mother every Memorial day to put flowers and a flag on her father's grave. He came here to America from Italy at the age of 12 in 1912 and joined the army at 17 yo to fight for his new country as an artilleryman. Though he was mostly deaf after that experience he taught me a lot about farming, tractors, and hard work when I was young. God bless everyone who has worked to protect our not-so-little experiment here in the USA. Hats off to all veterans and current warriors.

You can't take it out on the employee when he's just following the rules. Apparently it said right on the sign that no one without at least one leg and one arm was allowed on that ride. That Joey Jones is more fit than the vast majority of people on the planet doesn't matter. I feel your outrage, and I agree with you. But beating on some poor ticket-tearing schlub for doing his job is not the way to go. Hopefully Six Flags will change their policy, at least with regard to military vets.

Just a guess here, but it looks like whatever chemicals the local water treatment plant is using. Around here we have chlorine and that kind of gunk is pure white. Not enough chemical to smell or taste but it can seriously screw things up, especially in hot water situations. I have all pex except for the bronze meter and 50 or so feet of copper pipe from the road that I tied into. I still had a problem with absolute flow stoppage a couple of years ago. Hot tap, nothing. Not even a trickle. Cold tap worked fine. I spent a day working on the hot water tank and related piping with an air compressor and wet/dry shop-vac to get the system up and running again. Assuming you don't want to take the machine apart I don't know what to tell you other than maybe let it dry out and try a tight-fitting seal on a shop-vac to get the gunk out? Appliances are not my strong point. And like GreeneHunter just said, filtration for the future?

And we have people like Johnny "Joey" Jones who lost both his legs working EOD in Afghanistan being refused access to an amusement park ride because both his legs are prosthetic. He was on one of the news shows talking about it, and he was not happy. He seems like a very cheerful person in general, and he's trying to get a mid to upper level job at the VA, but he was not happy that some wank at Six Flags wouldn't let him on the ride. Rules are rules, so he took it in stride, but he was obviously pi&&ed. I hope I get to buy him a beer some day. Marine Corps discipline. Joey's feelings were hurt, and he likely could have killed the guy with his bare hands, but he lodged a formal complaint and moved on.

You deserve it. Have fun.

My point was, "Do something, anything." This guy might be the exception, but at least he's going to the trouble of painting himself. New Orleans is a weird place. FWIW I lived in New Orleans for almost a year with a gal who did caricatures for people. She was a street artist, and made decent money. She was good at it and she enjoyed it. And the street musicians were amazing. I'd toss them a buck if I could.

If you're going to basically 'panhandle' at least play an instrument or juggle and entertain people for a couple of minutes.

Exercising racehorses during the winter. 2nd worse would be working food service at the local hospital. Lots of good jokes and anecdotes from both though.

I would never watch, or care, but there were some really funny clips I saw on TV last night. The looks on faces, etc. And labeling the other Prince's wife as "Bowels" instead of Bowles. And a bunch of MSNBC men commenting on the hats and bonnets? If they only knew as much about guns as they do about veils, hats and bonnets...

Arsenio Hall show 1989, shortly before he died: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uN--H-L808

There's a whole of Jimmy Lee's 50's influence in this. The last SRV album.

If he were alive today he'd probably be a dorky loud-mouthed liberal like every other entertainer. Politics just wasn't a big thing then, but he definitely had a left-leaning political side. Then again, maybe he would have grown out of it. Either way, RIP Stevie. I miss ya bro.

Beer can chickin?

Sorry for the mistake above. It was Albert Collins. Having a senior moment here...;-]

What impressed me most was, like I've said, he was only 5 1/2 feet tall, my height. But he had a monster persona that made him seem a foot taller on stage. I met Albert King one year in a Buffalo club during a break. He was tall and had hands like an NBA star. A 16 oz beer glass looked tiny in his hand. We chatted for 15 minutes before he went back on stage to finish his show. The next year he came directly over to me with his hundred foot long guitar cord and sat and played for almost half an hour at my table while sipping the BV I bought him. My date was really impressed. Lonnie Mack is another one I have a couple of stories about. The old school blues guys were sincere.

SRV did an unplugged show on Austin City Limits. A friend of mine was working the soundboard that night, and was blown away. I'll look for it. Here's a substitute:

Flamboyant, yes. That was required in the 1980's. He'd crush your skull with either hand. Get over it Patty.

Most guitarists today use 7 and 8 gauge strings for their bottom E on the fretboard. Stevie Ray used 11, 12 and 13 gauge strings in that position. If you can bend that up to top of the fretboard like he did you know where the music comes from.

I thought it was a televised drinking game.

Make the bangin' legal I say!! They've been sleepin' together for a cross fortnight now! Get it done with. This is worse than that insipid Mueller investigation across the pond. Said the Queen.

If the weapon of choice is a bath towel, you might need to rethink your strategy. What was your backup plan, potpourri and incense?

What you think doesn't matter to me.

Don't remember. But that's probably about the right timing. Catch the line in Hendrix's Voodoo Chile, "I may not see you in this world, but I'll see you in the next world..." I have no desire to die any time soon, but the thought of hangin' with Jimmie and Stevie makes things less frightening.

That was probably the same tour that brought him to the Red Creek in Rochester. He was crankin' it out.