My third job today.. I noticed that the gal's name was Gretchen. I asked her if she'd ever been to Nebraska, she said, 'yes.'



Just wrote my relatively new neighbor.. tenant that rents the home, a courtesy letter to persuade him to not play his car stereo at excessive volume when driving in the neighborhood. I left it anonymous lol and told them that I'm confident I speak for everyone in vicinity.. I gave 'em till after Mother's day to comply or I'm gonna call the cops.. there's a sound ordinance and they are happy to enforce it. Inconsiderate clowns with no regard for anyone but themselves lol no racist

Today at work! the big goal has kinda taken a lull.. I had a bout of gout, and then a decent allergic reaction to, what I imagine was poison oak, sumac or ivy. So, I hope to get truckin on that soon. back to work today.. had a shower valve replacement... pretty str8 forward.. but not too simple. Lol the boss though.. trying to tell me once I got out there and informed him that its a good three hour job, and that he ought to handle my one remaining job for the day..that the job I was on was an hour and one half, and that u just have to unsolder this and that lool total ****ing clown planet.. anyway.. I said come on out and instruct me lol He gets out there, fumbles around for a bit then leaves, and I do the job just as I had imagined.

Ceramic tile shower enclosure.. here's the valve as I found and after I started a bit of the tile removal that was necessary to provide access.. if u look closely, you should be able to see the trace of the face-plate/circular finish trim/ escutcheon or whatever u want to call it that will ultimately still be plenty big to cover the larger opening in the tiled wall.



Ok so I futzed with a Sawzall with a weird composite blade designed to cut cast iron pipe, and that worked a bit, but was too slow.. then I used my rotary zip(similar to a Dremel tool) with a shank designed for tile, and that made some progress, but was too slow too, so I tried my lil Milwaukee hand held grinder, but the grinder disc wasn't for tile, rather for metal and other chit.. I finally just used my concrete chisel and 3 lbs hammer, though I was worried the tile might crack beyond where the face plate would conceal it.. I was successful! Great Success! u can still faintly see the trace perimeter.



ok so above is the damaged valve that required replacement.. and below is the valve I installed! u can see the soldered couplings in the lower image that were needed to obviously reinstall a shower valve to the hot and cold water lines etc.



trace still evident.. im obviously hammering that home, but its critical.. to a shower enclosures aesthetic and functionality .



Oh and here's the opposite side of the common wall with the shower. That was the other option for access, but it would obviously be unnecessarily invasive, and require sheet rock patching post install.. not to mention the proximity of towel holder and electrical outlet.. U can actually see the back of the electrical outlet in the 2nd image above. In the third image, u can see where I singed the wire's insulation slightly, but when uve got a torch head in a 3 inch wall, sheeeiiit is gonna get hot.



Zeee Stud Boyee at the shop this morning prior to heading to the above job.. funnel err dunce cap on head.

Dem bibs!

Update: fell off the fitness/diet numba 1 goal something fierce the last 3 weeks approx.(had the bout of gout, then a long, long weekend in DC for my sister's wedding.. Holy B-Jesus Belt I ate), and Im not feeling too good about it, feel like Ive put on 15 lbs since the video below was shot lol and I may have : ( but I just went biking, and Im gonna buckle down and regain commitment .

Love all you guys.. thx for all the encouragement over the weeks(especially m y boyees wombat and JustJJ!!) enjoy the world cup! Casual non-competitive bragging rights bull chit.. world cup bracket challenge in BBV4L world cup thread!

Off to watch the last US warm up Vrs The Super Eagles Nigeria!







full cover of this track coming soon! geee \o/

Why only 240p on the video quality?

Recorded from my phone.. No real understanding of these things lol it's an older iPhone

Not sure which generation or watever

Ayn Rand escaped from the Soviet Union? Well, I have yet to escape from the USA. Does that make me fit to write a ******ed manifesto or 2, ya know, maybe the inverse of how departure point altruism leads to destination communism/fascism ?

just putting these here so I can find 'em later.

BEETLE IS AS BAD AS CAN AND HE KNOWS HE'S THE BEST

beetle, i don't know, cause i look good, but i feel like gettin laid. beetle know what he get what he want. look like kango, i let it all a hang-o. look like a kango, cause i look like a gigolo.

You never know the kinda beet you're gonna get.



First day on the new job, couldn't have gone any better. Back in with a union shop, double secretion probationary period.


Did a repipe on a pair of water heaters.. this is the home and property of multi-millionaires. Just no concept of all that.




Hope everyone is doing well woot woot.. Trying to get 'King' worked out lol by my boyees King's X.. more stud boyee shredtard to come err

Reb Beach

Bit of Eric Johnson from Tuesday night.

sounds like allan holdsworth

He does take it 'out' a bit in the solo, grego goat : ) More out sounding than most anything Ive heard from him. Holdsworth lives in the outer outie outland os. Not always though..



The following is a lot like the show we saw.. performed a year or so earlier in Paris.. cept' far better recording quality.









One of these things just isn't the same lol I really should take a bit more time to tighten up my playing, but I always just rush it to production, because I want to gift it to zee world! errrrrrrrr

GOAT

http://youtu.be/R4emJASIuYA?t=52m27s

House sitting for my folks as they are in Cali for a couple weeks, my bro came over last night and we grilled some burgers and brats. I was playing for him some tracks off the 7 or so new King's X CDs I had bought. I don't have my guitar over here so I was asking him what song I should try to learn once I get back home, and he said Prisoner, as it was one of the songs we listened to last night. He's a hell of a guitar player, owning a Joe Satriani model Ibanez that he bought for 1,300.00$ approx dollars years back after he won a 10$ rebuy that yielded 5K approx. Goat. I asked him if there was some sort of bend in the 1st riff, and he almost immediately said it sounds like a half bend on the 3rd fret low E string G note, then to the A chord. We went to the following video to discover GOAT:



Interesting note, A lot of what King's X wrote was in the drop D tuning ldo, but this appears to be in standard tuning for the reason mentioned above.

He plans to learn it then try to teach me lol I'll keep on him to make sure he does and record him playing it. Rock N Roll, babies, Rock N Roll!

Goat 10$ rebuy purchase. I thought you lived in the UK for some reason. Weird.

Ok, here it is. A few screw ups, but I just showed up after work and rousted him from what he was doing.. video games or some shiit. Me on the vocals for one line or so lmao.

Tuesday, September 23rd, I saw my boyees Living Colour. Corey, Doug, Vernon and I, and Ignorance is Bliss from sound check. uh nice.







1:51 to 1:52 imo



If this song don't drop ya, then you're not hooked up right err.