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edfuli -
You will be more likely to get your question addressed if you put it in Song Requests. To get to Song Requests, click on the word "Index". Song Requests is a one of the forums you can select. Then in the upper right corner (I think) are the words "New Topic". Click on that. You can then put your request in there. I can move entire topics, but not replies to a topic or I'd have moved it for you.
Good luck finding what you need.
Regards,
Zurf
To me, it's like this. From a being able to play perspective, it makes sense for you to associate yourself with folks who can play when you can. I don't see any problem with that.
From a 'how to treat people perspective', it matters a great deal WHY you started the new band. If you did it out of spite, that's not good. If you did it from a practical perspective of "Oh, you guys play when I can't, so I just figured to get with some folks who are on my schedule", then not. That you're doing it openly is good. But if you did it from spite or from anger or from a bruised ego, then I think you do need to have that conversation with them as suggested by Buzzwagon. You shouldn't let hard feelings fester.
- Zurf
Moose is awesome. That one eye gives him a little bit of a crazy look - like that friend you never knew what he was going to do but you were absolutely certain that at some time in your life you'd be sitting beside him in a holding cell laughing.
- Zurf
Today my family and I went to one of our favorite little towns to kill some time. There's shops and historic displays and a river to hang out by and all manner of cool things. So while we're there a big storm passes through and knocks out the power. After the storm passed, folks were milling around on the sidewalks in a very casual, friendly sort of way. About that time, a woman was out on the balcony of her business and shouted down to one of the other shop-owners, "You never can tell what's going to happen." Why was that funny? She was a psychic adviser.
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Try making pizza in a cast iron pan on a grill.
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yep. Mostly I practice with it by strapping my hands to prevent myself from throwing it out a window.
- Zurf
Beginner sissified folk pop with delusions of adequacy.
It depends upon who I'm jamming with. Cursing the B chord and singing off-key works. Each taking a turn and swapping stories and jokes works. Drunken debauchery's not my style.
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Welcome to Chordie Pat. That's a pretty incredible first post right there.
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I thought this site was more into axes??!
Good one.
Absolutely proper. I tossed it into a dumpster behind a pawn shop.
I had a bass that came with a lightning bolt painted on the back and the word "Wizbang!" down the lightning bolt. So I called it Wizbang. It seemed the right thing to do given the circumstances. Wizbang has since moved on to the big guitar rack in the sky.
Ouiji Board, three friends and several adult beverages.
LOL! Please, please, please never admit it if that's not true. It's the best possible answer to this thread.
What is your body fat percentage? How do you feel other than hungry? Are you tired all the time or have more energy? What is your daily caloric intake?
What do you do? Jogging? Biking? High impact or low? Try swimming. Last thought: Cheat a bit every now and then.
Body fat percentage? No idea. Something less than 150%, I'd think.
How do I feel / energy? I feel pretty good most of the time. With the reduction of booze and increase of water, I am sleeping much more soundly, which has lead to feeling better overall. Also, over the winter I think I was suffering some minor symptoms of depression. With the increased activity levels, I am also regaining interest in the things I enjoy doing (which is mostly fishing and puttering around the house, but they're things I like). To be clear because it's come up several times, my prior consumption of booze was not excessive. I was honest with my doctor about what, how much, and when I imbibe and he thought it was fine.
What is my daily caloric intake? No idea. My wife has a food scale and she logs everything for carbs, grams of fiber, and calories. Perhaps I will ask her to teach me how. I tried using several Google food calculators and found myself extremely frustrated with them. They were flat-out annoying in their interface, and frequently did not include very normal things that I eat and did include things that it seems no one would eat.
What do I do? For exercise, I walk/hike and use a Total Gym. I have tuned up my bike and gotten in a few rides, which have demonstrated how terribly out of condition I am despite what is now well over a year's worth of conditioning. I know how to swim. Given my paddling and fishing hobbies, being able to swim aggressively in turbulent water for several hundred yards is a safety issue. Otherwise, I absolutely abhor swimming. It is a good exercise. But I find it dreadful. My children love it and so it is impossible for me to go to the pool and actually exercise. I have to watch my children because they are not old enough yet to permit them to swim unattended (despite the eldest being better at it than am I).
I'm not sure if that enlightens you, but I hated to see the questions left unanswered when you've taken so much time, effort, and thought to try and help.
If I ate until I did not feel hungry, I'm afraid there would be a sudden and terrible shortage of pepperoni pizza in the tri-state area of Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. It's a bit like a tall tale to see me eat when I am trying to satisfy my Appetite. The capitalization is correct, in that my Appetite has taken on a legendary status within its own mythos.
- Zurf
Play while you've got it.
The first syllable of my last name is Zurf. A fair number of different groups through my life have called me by that nickname. Other common nicknames are D and Big D. Guess what letter my first name starts with. Because for a time I straddled the line between paddlers going out for fun running rapids and paddlers using boats to float their big fannies out to where the fish are, I had one group of paddlers telling me I was too slow and another group of paddlers telling me I was going too fast. So I also use the handle Halffastpaddler on some forums.
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Good advice from all. I am humbled and grateful that you all took so much time and effort to provide recommendations. I am feeling better and my fitness level is improving. I will try to work in some bike riding among the walking and look in the Chuck Norris Punisher (Total Gym) handbook for some different exercises to try.
I had a guest this weekend, who commented on my portion sizes. He suggested that even though portion sizes are substantially reduced from previously, they are perhaps still a bit too large for my purposes. So portion size control, changing up exercising, and staying the course seems to be the consensus - and it sounds sensible from a "Hmmmmm, let me think about that" perspective. So I guess that's what I'll do.
Thank you all for your interest and advice.
- Zurf
I would love to, but I have other commitments. I am chaperoning my daughter's kindergarten class's field trip AND it's my wife's birthday. Disappearing would be very, very bad for me upon my return. Thanks for thinking of me and sending the personal invitation.
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I eat five times a day, in accordance with physician's instructions.
- Zurf
The Fog. Killer fog off the coast of New England. You had to go inside to avoid it, because obviously air only exists outside of lighthouses.
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I had that on one of my guitars. The "fix" was to remove the seed one of my kids put in the hole. It got caught in a spot that at certain vibrations would cause the seed to jump around and buzz. So check to see if you've got something inside your guitar.
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MKM - Thanks. All my life I've had physical jobs leading to an enormous metabolism. I could eat anything I wanted any time I wanted as much as I wanted. Now that middle age is in full swing and I have a sedentary desk job, such is not the case. I am following a diet - both volumes and substances - recommended by my GI. It's just that being used to eating three or four times as much, I'm hungry all the time.
I'm drinking tons of water. I haven't measured the volume, but on a thumbnail guesstimate it's more than you've listed. Whenever I feel hungry, I drink some water. And I am always hungry.
I get my blood work done annually. I'll be telling the doctor this year to have a particular eye on thyroid.
My hair has been long gone and I would prefer it to stay that way. I had the most baby fine ridiculous hair. It looked greasy minutes after washing and blow dry AND it had a double crown so I was constantly fighting a cowlick. It's better gone. If it grew back, I'd cut it off anyway.
- Zurf
You may be losing inches even though you are not losing weight. Some fat may be turning into muscle.Just a thought.
It had occurred to me, and so I pretty much suspended resistance exercises in favor of doubling up on aerobic exercise.
I'm thinking that I'm going to enhance that some too. Maybe add the resistance exercise back in but only a couple days per week and then use the Demonic Dominator 2000 (our elliptical machine) several days per week in addition to my daily hikes or bike rides.
The elliptical is the thing that I was using frequently in the cold weather when I was losing weight that I have not been doing in the warmer weather, preferring to walk outside instead.
So maybe walking outside AND using the Demonic Dominator 2000...
I hate being hungry.
- Zurf
I would prefer a glass of cool water to a 55 calorie beer, so at least that works in my favor! I have scarce few beers any longer because of the high carb load they have. However, both wine and hard liquor have very few initial carbs and I have been enjoying a bit of those. Carbs aren't problematic with them, it's just the empty calories at this point.
I am allergic to my favorite vegetable - carrots, and I am also allergic to favorite low-carb snack - nuts. It was upon discovering these things that I started to balloon up in weight. I had a very good diet going on, which unfortunately was trying to kill me. So I switched to other foods and got carried away with the carbs and BOOM I turned into a big, fat, load. So now the challenge is to find a high-protein, low-carb, high-fiber food that does not include soy (also allergic), carrots, or nuts of any kind. Good luck with that, right? I miss Snickers bars too.
If anyone is wondering, I'm going to suspend the no beer thing during this summer's river jams.
- Zurf
Not a drip, drop, or ounce. Between January and March - roughly 18 pounds fell off. Doing the same things, the April and May weigh-ins showed 246.4 pounds each time. Complete stall. So I increased my effort, improved my diet more, and for the June weigh-in I weighed 246.8. I had a goal of five pounds of weight loss for May and instead gained 0.4 pounds instead. I am disgusted and frustrated. I am hungry all the time and sore from exercise. I've purchased a pedometer and have taken the 10,000 steps a day challenge. Even if I take a break from resistance exercise for recovery, no change. It seems as if the exercise makes no difference whatever.
Very frustrating.
Eventual goal remains the same. More diet change in order. Reduce carbs, I guess eliminate booze altogether (hardly seems reasonable, but it is useless calories), and longer periods of non-aerobic/fat-burning exercise. I'll be tuning up my bike. If that doesn't work, I'm going to have to check in with the doctor to see whether there's a thyroid issue.
- Zurf
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