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20181201 Things are Poppin’:

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We are in the midst of an exciting weekend. First of all we came back to Pearl Texas for the “First Weekend Jam Session.” It was every bit as fun as the first one we
attended in November. The bands may not be major festival headliners, but most are very good.

Ketogenic lunch
My first Ketogenic lunch; lettuce, cheese, tomatoes and mayo.

To keep things exciting, this

weekend I have gone on a radical low carb high fat diet to see if it will help me keep this Parkingon’s beast under control. It’s easy to find food for this diet. Just look at your grocers under “Meat.” Most vegies are off limits and don’t even mention fruits, chips, breads or deserts. I have been loosing a pound a day for nearly a week now, pounds that I don’t have to spare. For all these years I have kidded about being on a “see food and eat it” diet, I am now beginnning to understand. My heart goes out to you folks who have suffered through diet after diet. I can see where you can start thinking about food all the time.

To cap off the morning, while I was making my special “Semi-automatic Bullet Proof” coffee I forgot to turn the space heater off before I touched off the microwave. Poof! Went the circuit breaker. I turned off the space heater and went back to reset the circuit breaker. I shined my flahlight into the recesses of the panel and observed a thin curl of smoke in the air. I figured out that I had fried the breaker. We will pick up a new one back in Austin.

Ma! I think I cooked the inverter!
Ma! I think I cooked the inverter!
O.K. it is a couple days later and I can most positively state that I cooked the inverter. This is much more serious. I have found out from YouTube that there is a circuit breaker on the inverter box itself. It was completlly hidden beneath a huge cable from the battery.
Fine Bluegrass Music at Pearl Texas every first Saturday.
I will explore that in the morning. Meanwhile the place is laced with extension cords just so we can live in here. This unit is so shoehorned in under the closet that I took me a full afternoon to take out 14 screws holding the cover so that we could look inside. The replacement will come in a few days, meanwhile I have jumpered the missing inverter and the whole house is once again on the grid. It is four inches longer and a little shorter than the old one. It will bbe a shoehorn job for sure.

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4 thoughts on “20181201 Things are Poppin’:”

  1. I was wondering how you were doing. Now I know. We all have those opps moments. I use them as wake up moments. I have noticed that in getting older it’s turns into project time. You have told a tragedy situation and made it a enlightened story. Enjoy your stay and the music. And good luck with the diet. Sooner or later we all need one. We all want to make a new years resolution to lose weight of lose some bad habit.
    Thanks for the story, hope everything works out as I know it will.
    Ray Scholl

  2. Hello!
    I was looking at your chord progression spinner page.
    I am very new to learning progressions and improvisation
    and am very interested trying to learn to use the charts.

    But the 7-zip links don’t work. Would you please give me a password or
    link for the guitar charts?

    Thanks very much

  4. Thank you very much Gary!
    everything except guitar_open works just fine.

    Regarding computers that go poof, have ya tried a bigger hammer?

    If it breaks it needed replacing anyway!

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