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I would like to add my Best Wishes to everyone for a Happy, Healthy, and Safe Holiday Season!

Salaam, Shalom, y Feliz Navidad.

The Smith Clan

Seems to me just a few months ago we were complaining about drought..... now we're treading water!  I'm sure somebody prayed for rain and it's been raining buckets for a week or more. But there is a bright side, the freexing level has stayed fairly high, which is good for getting ahead on the snowpack we'll be needing later in the year.

In the meantime though, flooding and mudslides, local rivers and streams overflowing, debris in the bays and costal waterways raising havoc with shipping, just another Northwest Winter (like the good old pre-drought days!).

OK this is likely not the exact section to mention it in...... but did anyone notice that our Portland Timbers Major League Soccer team won the MLS Championship Cup this weekend?

Just bragging a little on the local gang!!  It ain't FIFA, but growing a good fan base here on this Continent.

Well although one I looked at was a bit slow to load, they seem to be functional currently.

KIR,  I use both spellings interchangably.  I grew up overseas and most of my early teachers were British and naturally "sticklers" on spelling, grammar and the proper use of the English Language.  I've however grown sloppy in my  old age...... it's an American thing, to toss off the "extra" vowels on a whim. Generally both are acceptable in writing although I did get called out on it at Uni by an English Professor who hailed from......South Carolina!  "Yawl shud use gud spellin cuz I mark down if'n yew don't.".   

edited to correct improper use of smilie (or smiley or smily or ???)

Best Wishes to everyone from your friends here in the Pacific Northwest!!   Where the sun is shining, trees are shedding Fall Colours, the bird is filling the house with welcoming aromas (cooking that is), and tonight it will be down around -3c (25f for we Colonists).

Enjoy the day, your families, friends, and above all be safe out there if you are traveling.

Driver conflicts can be issues in any software installation, but I personally shy away from "aftermarket" driver search tools in favor of going directly to the operating system source for "certified drivers" that are less likely to not play nicely with your OS of choice (ie: Microsoft for Windows, Apple for IOS, Canonical for Linux),  Another reason to always go to the verified source and run the "Compatibility Tools" feature (especially in Windows) to be sure your hardware is fully supported in the version you are installing (or wait until updated drivers are provided by them) before jumping onto the latest/greatest iteration of the Operating System. 

Specifically to Windows 10.... I'm still waiting for all the issues to be ironed out before migrating my 7 and 8.1 systems over.  For everything not "touch-centric" Linux is my flavor of choice and preference.,, for the stuff I do these days.  I do remember the time when you ran a Mac if you were doing lots of stuff that was mostly graphics (because all the best software was Adobe and ran best on Apple hardware), and PC with Windows if most of your work was word processing and number crunching.  Who remembers Kaypro, and all that kickin' engineering software for determining structural stress, and heat loads, in Cobol and Unix???   Didn't think so.....

I too am becoming an "artifact" it seems. 

Getting back to the original question.......I'm pretty sure that most wives/spouses/significant-others (choose one) would have a proverbial "tizzy-fit" if anyone was bold enough to "come home with a new piece"    Especially without permission!!!

But after 35 years of marital "bliss"(?), most things get discussed if the expense is likely to impact the budget.  Discretionary spending is OK to that $200 limit beyond which at least some discussion is required.   That pretty much rules out any high-line guitars just "falling out of a pickup and ending up in the music room".  "Really it was just laying there along the road in the rain......shivering and lonely".

Last time I lusted after an electric guitar, I got the "You have the wood, you have the tools, you have the skills, and you have the time......don't cut any fingers off.".  Needless to say I don't shop much.

I'm curious what a "good setup for the Northwest" would consist of?  Other than drying and packing away your humidifier (surely not needed where the humidity rarely drops below 40%, and hangs between there and 100),  After a couple of weeks of "acclimation" a quick tuning is the only thing I've found. I often travel between here and the Southwest (sometimes for a couple of months at a stretch) and have not had to change anything.

OK maybe a small bag of mildew prevention crystals dropped in the sound-hole......?? 

Life is good!!

Take Care;
Doug

I'm sure Bryan will chime along shortly, but actually Bill you theoretically should be able to do it.  If you check out Justinguitar's tutorials, he claims that you can do pretty much everything with 5 "grips" (actually 5 with a E string root, and 5 more with an A string root).  Which holds true if you limit yourself to Major, Minor, 7ths, Maj7, flat 5 ,and Dom 7th chord patterns. Get into Diminished, Augmented, and / ("slash") chords and you kinda have to toss the barre out in favor of freeing up enough fingers to hit all the voicings.

That's why the Lord made "altered tunings"........ so us arthritic folks don't have to "pretzelate" our digits. 

Ooorrrrrr, You can do a "Beamer" and crank the amp up and bash away with "power Chords"........ with enough volume and distortion you can't tell the difference between a Major, Minor, or 7th.

(just joking Scott)

This is one of my favorite places to shop in the area.  Not only is the shop well stocked, but the staff is friendly and encourage you to have a seat and play away to your heart's content on anything you fancy.  I've known Kent since 1976 and even took a couple of lessons from him to get back into playing after Nam.  Good folks and kind of a landmark hereabouts. every instrument is dusted and tuned daily, Outstanding Customer Service!

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