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I used to spend my winters in Arizona, so while we are on the subject..... it is illegal to shoot or hunt Camels there.  But like Zurf, have not seen any in the wild..... but there are rumours....

It is against the law for Women to wear pants in Prescott Arizona.  But everyone can carry guns, so good luck enforcing that one without a showdown!

They also have a "domicile Law" that allows you to shoot and kill an intruder to your home (including uninvited guests)...... but a contradictory Law that says you can only defend yourself against an intruder who is armed with an "equal or lesser weapon".......  which brings up the question, does a nine iron trump crowbar in this instance???

Local ordinances are more commonly "strange" and for some reason stay on the books although they are outdated.  My little town has one prohibiting the consumption of Coffee by, or serving Coffee to Women after 6:00 PM.  ?

Tying your Horse or Team to  a Lightpost is prohibited (I suppose fear of gas leak & fire was the concern here)..... so there is another that requires all businesses to provide "rails, posts, or other devices for securing livestock".  There are a few "hitching rings" set into the sidewalks in the older section of town.  An unwelcome surprise to the skateboarders (which are illegal on public sidewalks) as they are large enough to tie at least two pairs of horses.

Schools are required to provide shelter, hay and water to all horses ridden by students attending.

I would....... but for the life of me I can't seem to remember any.  It runs on my Dad's side of the family, Mom's side all had heart problems, and my better half's tend towards blindness, loss of hearing and tremors!  The kids' "Golden Years" will be a mess!

Take Care;
Doug

Snowden my friend, it has indeed been awhile!  Pleased to see you back here among the Chordie Family.

I thoroughly enjoyed visiting your site this morning over a cup of coffee..... that kinda stretched into three, maybe 4.  The blog and illustrations do give a view of the person putting it all together and, all I can say is I'd be proud to "chalk up with you down at the Pit of an evening".

Good tunes, and I'll comment on those when I get a patch of time to give a serious listen.... as you say life gets in the way and my schedule is not slack this week so I'm forced to drop in here in short snippets between tasks (and sunbreaks).  Spring is at the doorstep and nature sets the calendar if we want crops this season.

Take Care & check in often!

Doug

Welcome to th Chordie Forum!

My first thought is that something changed your preferences in Onsong (during a recent update?), so this link should get you the information you need to restore your device:  http://www.onsongapp.com/docs/interface … r/browser/

Have Fun!

Seems to me that they did an upgrade option to migrate to 7 from XP, and again from 7 to 8.0, but that was such an "ugly mess" that nobody hardly took them up on it.  When 8.1 update 1 came out it would run well on older hardware that you would HAVE to upgrade to run 7..... so at least not everybody would need to buy a new PC (which folks like Intel are lamenting).  Kind of got them back in the hunt for low-cost upgrading of Windows and that is a good thing.

Then there are us guys that jumped ship entirely to Linux, and by the way, Chrome and Android are both Linux based custom distros. We might not want to sign on to Windows ever!  I can do most everything I used to do on Win7 on Ubuntu and there are plenty of applications to do it with as good or better.  OK there is not a Netflix application (but there was) at the moment..... something to do with licensing.  But if you NEED  Windows applications you can run them in the Wine Virtual Machine inside the Linux shell.

Examples:  Need MS Office = try Libre Office
                   Need Photoshop = Try Gimp
                   Need 3DSMax = Try Blender
                   Need Reaper or Pro-Tools = Try Ardour
                   Like Audacity = Use Audacity
Most everything is Free Too! And WiFi is optional, stuff runs on the device not the cloud, so if you have electrons.....

Here's an article worth reading: http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10 … ed-copies/

My opinion is that Microsoft is heading to a "subscription" Business Model, and like Office 365 you will wind up paying annual fees to continue using and getting support for the operating system (it should be fairly low cost), and by "giving it away" for the first year (even to non-genuine users) you will find that you are locked into the new version and it will be difficult (if not impossible) to revert to your previous version.  By doing so, they get all those that have been "stealing the use" back into a positive revenue stream and make paying customers out of those who were not.

Awhile back I had a failing power supply let the smoke out of the mainboard of my desktop running Windows 7 Pro.  After a new power supply, board, and processor, my "genuine Windows" wouldn't work as it identified itself to Microsoft as invalid.  The activation key was generated using unique identifiers of the hardware when initially activated, and I had exceeded the number of hardware changes that would allow me to do anything except buy another license for the software. With a new version of Windows coming down the pike, it didn't seem prudent to shell out the bucks for an operating system that was on the short list..... so I'll be watching how this shakes out with interest.  The legal beagles up in Redmond are already waffling on how to deal with who should (or shouldn't) get what, and until I'm sure that 10 is a stable and viable improvement that is cost effective, I'll stay with Linux....... Thank You!

I think I have a set of Alaska picks around here somewhere..... they were plastic and yes did need a little shaping to get them to work well (at least for me).  Can't hardly imagine metal ones!  The good thing about them is that you get the "feel" of using your natural nails, and they protect your own until they get long enough to use alone.

My nails grow pretty fast and get filed almost daily, which stimulates growth.  But I should add that there should be no stigma about having gels done professionally if it's within your budget.  Doing it yourself with your non-dominant hand is trickier than it looks!  We've got enough musicians around town that salons don't even blink when you walk in the door and request only one hand done.  Could be a niche for a nail technician to set up a stall inside a larger music store and schedule a couple of days a week......could stay real busy!

Pleased to hear you are home safe, and have found yourself a new "groupie".  Georgia is (I assume) single, pretty (I saw the photos), demanding (your description), and........ took you to meet her Mum.

Funny how the first thought to cross my mind was a line from a Tom Hanks film........ "Run Guppy Ruuunnnn!!!" 

Howdy again RC, see you've been around awhile.  Us older folks (especially those with some formal music in the past) tend to put too much weight on timing, beat and measure.... comes from conditioning towards playing in ensemble where count is important so everyone gets there at the same time.  As a solo, you have the freedom to scribble outside the lines quite a bit, and keeping in mind that music like poetry is interpretive.  Blues, jazz, and a lot of modern music has structure that is flexible that way. Keep doing what you're doing and make it your own (to use a cliche).

Keep it loose, make it fun, and don't sweat the small stuff.

Or perhaps introductions for the photos already posted?  Most faces I know already, but not everyone..... and many members are not as familiar & I'm sure would like to put names to the faces displayed.

I think I found the Channel:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITOlKqFj97g

Nothin' up yet though.