Conference rdvax::grateful

    
>    Has your love light gone out?
    
    Yea, but it's just cuz the wick needs some trimming.  I still got
    plenty of fuel! :-)
    
    tim
    
    

Remember me talking about car stereo problems?  Well, this weekend, I took my
unit out of my car, and cleaned it.  While marveling at the maze of electronics
in that little box, I noticed a little screw w/ a spring on it.  I said, hmm,
what does this do?  So, I turned it and noticed the tape head moving!!  I was
very psyched!  So, I went to my car, jury rigged my stereo w/ part of it's
guts exposed, threw in a dead tape, and fiddled with the tape head adjustment
until I reached optimum sound.  I tried several other tapes to make sure it
was cool.................

Now my car stereo sounds good again.  No more lame treble or flat bass!!  Just
when I thought I was going to have to buy a new stereo ($300 savings!!)....  
sure made my entire weekend ...

so, just for that, I'll have to look into getting some new speakers!  any
suggestions for a good 6x9 speaker that sounds decent in an old-style (81)
camaro?
		
	Merl Saunders and the Rainforest Band sounded HOT HOT HOT
	this morning (1st gen, from DAT source, onto a metal tape)...

    RE car speakers ...
    
    I recently put a pair of Radio Shack Minimus 77 speakers in my car, and
    they sound better than any 6x9's I've ever used.  For that matter, they
    sound nearly as good as my big speakers at home.  They are rated up to
    55 watts, and handle it clean.
    
    Actually, the smaller Miminus 7's have a better midrange sound than the
    77's do (IMO).  It's amazing how much sound comes outta those little
    suckers.  They cost about $100/pr, and the mounting brackets are
    another $13.
    
    ... Bob
    

    re .3
    
    Great - now put a drop of Loc-Tite on it so it doesn't come loose
    again.
    
    I got my reservation for a backcountry camping permit at Yosemite NP
    yesterday.  Emily's worried enough about bears without them putting a
    warning on the letter.  Of course I comforted her by saying that I hope
    we can get some sleep over the sound of tents being ripped open and
    screaming campers being dragged off into the night.  Grrrr
    
    Jamie

	I know we have had the discussion ... but it's not the
	bears that frighten me, at least they are soft and
	cuddly :-)  it's those scaly slimy things .... Eeek!

	Lisa

re:      <<< Note 139.6 by LEDS::MRNGDU::YETTO "child of countless dreams" >>>


>	I know we have had the discussion ... but it's not the
>	bears that frighten me, at least they are soft and
>	cuddly :-)  it's those scaly slimy things .... Eeek!

  They may be soft and cuddly, but those claws and teeth tend to 
lessen the enjoyment of the hug ;-)/////

Shawn

re:      <<< Note 139.3 by BIODTL::FERGUSON "Is it just a waste of time?" >>>

> Remember me talking about car stereo problems?  Well, this weekend, I took my
> unit out of my car, and cleaned it.  While marveling at the maze of electronics
> in that little box, I noticed a little screw w/ a spring on it.  I said, hmm,
> what does this do?  So, I turned it and noticed the tape head moving!!  I was

I think you adjusted the Azimuth, or head alignment, on your deck... it can
make an amazing difference in sound!   If it's far enough off, you can lose
channels, and worse.

> so, just for that, I'll have to look into getting some new speakers!  any
> suggestions for a good 6x9 speaker that sounds decent in an old-style (81)
> camaro?
		
I *really* like my Boston Acoustics 797 6x9 speakers...  they get great bass,
and I think they're on sale at Tweeter now for $169 (down from $199) which
is what I paid for 'em.  I think you heard mine setup didn't you ?  I did 
blow out woofer on 1 speaker after 10 months, but Tweeter gave me a new 
pair as it was under warranty.

Ken

One more thing, but I hate to say it for fear of inflicting a jinx:
I haven't had any subsequent problems with the Boston Acoustics, and
with the way Phil has been sounding on recent tapes, especially from DAT 
sources, they've had quite the workouts!

    re .5
    
    	Jamie
    
    		I know I'm so rarely serious in here,.. but here goes
    
    		They have shown that women who are having their period
    	are something like 100 more times likely to be attacked by bear.
    	Something about menstruation must appeal to their sense of smell
    	or whatever,.. to the point that she smelle like something real
    	good to eat. I don't know if they put that in the warning letter
    	or not,.. so I just wanted to make sure you knew. I wouldn't
    	risk it as ot sounds like you are headed to bear country,.. just
    	make sure its not "that time of the month"
    
    
    									/
    

    re .-1
    
    I'd heard that too (also about post-coital scent - hey, it'll be our
    honeymoon :^)), but I've read a couple of articles since then that
    claim it's a myth.  Bears in Yosemite will be black, not grizzlies, the
    latter being FAR more dangerous.  We did take that into account when
    scheduling the trip, though, why take chances?  If we take proper
    precautions, the chances of being killed by a bear are about the same
    as the airplane crashing.  Even if we do have problems, all they'll want
    is our food - not live meat.  As for menstruation, the idea of packing
    out used tampons, etc., is enough to discourage most women from
    venturing into the backcountry then anyway.  Women go swimming during
    menstruation in the TV ads, but they don't camp without bathing for 4
    days!
    
    I gotta cobra snake skin for a necktie,
    I wrassle bears in my free time...
    
    old joke:	Two backpackers meet a bear on the trail, and one of them
    quickly drops his pack and starts lacing on running shoes.  "What are
    you doing," his companion asked, "you can't outrun a bear!"  "I don't
    have to," he replied, "I just have to outrun you!"
    
    I know there's a joke about a woman with PMS scaring off a bear in
    there, but I can't come up with it.
    
    Jamie

There is another way to be sure. Just make sure that she is pregnant and then 
she definitely won't be menstruating:-);-)

Geoff

  APPLE and MCI moving computor operations to the Springs.

  Pulleeeessssee hire me!!!!



john

	What a digression!  Everything you always wanted to know about
	menstruation as told by a bunch of men.  Once, just once - guys
	I'd like to give each of you my period.  Then, you could really
	consider yourself informed.  :-)

>     <<< Note 139.14 by LEDS::MRNGDU::YETTO "child of countless dreams" >>>
>     -< if you really knew, this wouldn't be in the 'make you happy' not >-
    
>	What a digression!  Everything you always wanted to know about
>	menstruation as told by a bunch of men.  Once, just once - guys
>	I'd like to give each of you my period.  Then, you could really
>	consider yourself informed.  :-)
    
    
    Yeeesh!  Perish the thought!  Keep me off this list, and I promise I'll
    never even talk about the subject! :-)
    
    tim
    

    I second Tims response....
                              rfb (with a 13 year old daughter)

    well,.. I guess lisa doesn't need to worry
    
    Bears rarely attack other bears!
    
    :-) :-)
    
    								/
    

    
    If he was smart, he'd run away from me! :-)
    
    

  might be a female bear and would understand!!??

  who sang the cute song about buddy bear and the still??

  john

	OK OK, so if I am a bear then I want to be a 'Sugar Bear' ;^)
	
By the way, your off the list tim, and randy .... you guys have some sense!  :-)
  

Excuse this digression from Woman Talk ...


Ken, yah, I did hear your speakers and I was impressed.  How many watts are
you driving those suckers with?  Also, are they 2-way or 3-way?  I'm interested
in good highs :-) as well as lotsa Phil.

JC

re:      <<< Note 139.21 by BIODTL::FERGUSON "Is it just a waste of time?" >>>
>                      -< no comment on the woman stuff. >-

ditto... I know better ;-)

12.5 watts drives each speaker... given that the deck is "high power" w/
25x25 watts and drives 4 speakers.  It's not the cleanest power but it's OK.
They are 3-way speakers, and I think they give great sound all around: 
highs/mid/bass.   I used to have Jensen's (coax) in there, used them for 
_years_.  While they take all the abuse you can give em, when I installed the 
B/A's, I couldn't believe the difference (for about 4 times the $ of the 
Jensen's I was hoping they'd sound better ;-) I noticed lots of textures and 
subtleties that weren't there at all with the Jensens, like keyboards,
Bob, and so on...  not to mention the bass.   

I'd recommend going to Tweeter with a few tapes: a good soundboard,
a great audience tape, and a CD recording, and take em for a test drive.
Playing Philly 9/8/88 (aud) did it for me: the way Phil etc came thru made 
up my mind.

Lemme know if you want to get together to check em out...

Ken

Jamie I am jealous, but you did remind me of one of those things that makes me 
happy (ahhhh yes, the topic ;^)).  I had a great time in the wilderness of 
Yosemite last May!  Never even saw a cloud, and even though the nights were 
cold (still snow on the ground in some places - we were at about 10,000 
feet elevation) the days were sunny and warm.  There is nothing like hiking and 
camping out in the wilderness.  

One episode that put me on a high for a while was while we were heading out 
from our first campsite, which was at a little pond about 8 miles from the 
nearest road and at about 9000 ft.  The ice had just gone out on the pond, and 
the snow on the ridge above us was beautiful and made for a fun slide down 
after our hike up it.  At the pond there is a little shack, built back 
pre-WW2 time.  Anyway, about a mile away from the shack, we came across 
and old gentlemen making his way along the path.  When he asked how much 
farther to the pond/shack, we stopped to chat with him.  He told us that he was 
one of the mule train drivers that built the shack about 50 years ago, and that 
he had not been back since the day it was finished.  He wanted to see it one 
more time, relive some memories, and soak up some of the beauty of the place.  
He told us about scouting around the wilderness in those years and how they 
used mules to cart up the supplies.  He was an intersting man and made me see 
that single place in a very different light.

We didn't see any bears, although bear droppings were around.  We did 
see plenty of smaller wildlife and birds though.  One thing they do there is 
make sure you know about the bears and how to behave to avoid any problems.  
from what I'm told it is best to listen to their advice, even though at times 
it may sound extreme.

Scott

 I'm jealous too.  Hope you have as good a time as I am imagining you will.
You just have to enter a trip report!!

RE. Scott

 Gee you get the feeling that old man knew what was worth remembering in life,
You got any plans to go back???

  Wish we could get a group of us to hit the Rockies together, lord 
knows enough of us in here like that kind of stuff.  I'd like to see some of
the Grand Tetons back country.

    Re: .19
    
    Buddy the Bear and the still is from the song "God's Own Drunk".  
    Jimmy Buffet used to sing a version of it until he got sued.
    I think it was the writer/singer's son who sued him.  I used to
    know who it was that wrote it, but I can't remember his name
    right now (and it's going to drive me crazy for the rest of the day)!  
      
    Grate song anyway!
    
    
    Robyn

 Robyn

    thanks, love that song.

I think there's an explanation in thet MUSIC conference about God's own
drunk and why JB can't do it anymore.  I've never seen him do it, but I
have a live version on an album.




Jim

    I saw Buffet do GOD in Denver when Feat opened for him....he told
    everyone in the audience he'd deny doing the song if asked about
    it.
       rfb

Damn, now I wanna go home and hear some Buffett.  I rented his video a couple
weeks ago and really enjoyed it.  





Jim

    Jimmy Buffet getting sued for this kind of makes me happy in a strange
    sort of way...  i just think it's comical that he got sued for this
    while he sued the folks that run Margueritaville and made them change
    the name of thier restaurant cuz of his song! :^/
    
    				da ve

    I agree!
            rfb

    
    There's a Buffett video??? 
    
    

RE:               <<< Note 139.32 by CIVIC::ROBERTS "Imagine..." >>>
                                 -< huhhh???  >-

    
   > There's a Buffett video??? 
    


   Yeah, it was taped in Miami (I think) in 85 or 87 (can't remember which).
   Its pretty good, fun to watch particularly in the middle of winter since
   it appeared to be pretty hot during the show.  About 1.5 hrs long.  

   I would like to have seen him back in the 80's.  I did see him a couple
   years ago, and while the show was a lot of fun, it seemed that a lot of
   the "ad libbing or impromptu" stuff was pretty much rehearsed or rehashed.
   Still a fun time though.





Jim
    

    Not to digress from the digression:
    
    We moved into our new townhouse this month.  We got the sterio room
    upstairs and, whooppie!, the bass in that room is incredible!!!  In
    fact, sometimes I gotta turn the bass down a wee bit.  Man, does Phil
    ever come through now!!  Amazing what a different room will do.  and
    this part of the townhouse kinda sticks out from all the rest and
    overhangs the bottom floor, so the speakers are almost hanging out in
    mid-air, so to speak.  My wife says she can hear the sterio as soon as
    she drives up.  And she's got the windows closed in her car!
    
    dave

    Congratulations to Nigel and Jane Barker, and their new daughter Lucy
    Amy!
    
    Scott
    

    I second the Congrats to a new littleone in the world! 
                                         rfb

    Yes .. congratulations indeed. :-)
    
    mary

    I have some photos that I took at the Greek Theatre a few years ago.
    Standing on the south end, at the top of the lawn hill, I panned
    the whole arena, scanning side to side, back and forth, top to bottom,
    and photgraphed almost the entire crowd.  I was using a 200 lens,
    so the field of view for each photo was narrow. I overlaped
    the framing of each shot in order to be able to put all the
    photos together to make a sort of panoramic picture of the scene.
    
    Before the show yesterday, I was playing around with these photos, placing
    them together, looking at all the little images of three or four
    thousand people who were there enjoying the show.  Now I'm trying to
    figure out what song the dead were playing when I took these pictures.
    I think this was a show on Sunday, the day after the last dark star
    at the greek...
    

    Going to lunch with some grate people,
    coming back and having my VaxDoc process 
    on the first try with no errors!
    
    :) sparky_who's_also_happy_'cause_she's_taking_Monday_off!

    I talked to my friend Shirley in Grand Junction (she's getting
    divorced) yesterday.  She told me she thought for sure she was
    pregnant.
    
    I called today and she's not!!!
    
    
    YAY!
    
    sparky

	I got a check for $116.00 from MightPay, er, Metpay - a dividend
for a "favorable loss record" during 1992...  amounted to approx. 12% of
your premium... this amounted to about $70 off the car ins. and $45 or so
off my renters/dia.ring insurance.  btw, this dividend was for digital
metpay customers only ---  another reason to join metpay (espec. if you
live in MA since you get 5% off you policy w/ dec/metpay!).

	what a concept:  money FROM the ins. company!!!!

	:-) :-)

    
    I got one yesterday too!  $175!  I'm very happy!  :-)
    
    MJ

    I'll join in the chorus of "me too's" .  a grand concept indeed : money
    FROM an insurance company.  this helps out on the goodies for Albany
    run :-)
    
    carol

re   <<< Note 139.43 by MKOTS3::ROBERTS_CR "a blinding flash o'the obvious" >>>
                                   -< :-)  >-

>this helps out on the goodies for Albany
>run :-)
 
gasoline, right??? yah, that's it!

jc_who'll_be_driving_to_NC_then_albany!

    well metpay sent me a congrats too...discount for no tixs and multi-car
    discount...policy went up $500.00 a year because colo drivers drive
    like sh*t %^(
    
    rfb

    
    Re: .44
    >gasoline, right??? yah, that's it!
    of course.  and money for the collection plate.
    
    :-)
    

    i guess i don't get one...  :^(  no speeding tickets but i did put in a
    glass claim from the ugly incident at the halloween party in North
    Brookfield...
    					da ve

    	Maybe it's like tickets Da ve, they don't all mail on the same day.
    I also put in a glass claim in July, but I got a check, very pleasant
    surprise. I didn't open the envelope at first, thinking it ain't gonna
    effect me now, instead calling to get preapproved for a mortgage. I was
    told I breezed the approval and then opened the envelope. Happy
    financial afternoon. so there's still some good happening for me. 
    
    Why do I worry about this stuff??? (not the money)
    Geoff

    well Geoff, it looks like you're right...  mine came this weekend! :^)
    so either they don't mail them all the same day or the postal service
    is into making me wait for everything lately... 
    
    					da ve

    
     Got a smile put on my face this morning!
    
     Coming down Ute pass to work this morning there were 6 hot air
    balloons hanging over Colorado Springs, the sun was shining through the
    clouds behind them, what a sight.
    
     That's the way to make a living
    
    
     Grate way to start the day.
    
    Divide Dave
    

	someone suggested that I see if my homeowner's insurance would
	cover my refrigerator that had a fire in it
	so I asked
	and they do!  after the $100 deductible, they will pay for
	a comparable refrigerator AND for all the food we lost
	cool

	Debess