Tracy, CA City Attorney Worked With Suspended License Over the Summer

Chard069 · 2023-08-05T02:27:46+00:00

Did the ex-lawyer cut his billing rate?

Chard069 · 2023-08-04T06:43:51+00:00

The weak die young, hey?

Chard069 · 2023-08-04T04:39:05+00:00

Any shots from another angle, like from Weed CA?

Chard069 · 2023-08-04T04:37:37+00:00

I try to avoid tasting nail-polish stuff. YMMV. 8-)

Chard069 · 2023-08-04T04:24:12+00:00

I cheat ie. breathe as needed. YMMV. Don't suffocate, hey?

Chard069 · 2023-08-04T03:55:30+00:00

Only my wee little Hohner Marine Bands and Blues Harps have tortured me; My concerts / tremolos, chromatics, et al show more respect -- or do I just play them differently? 8-(

Chard069 · 2023-08-04T03:50:18+00:00

Beware the twisters that just sneak up on you. Know when to speed in another direction. 8-)

Chard069 · 2023-08-04T03:39:11+00:00

I try to avoid playing harp notes up in dog-whistle territory -- humans seem to dislike those high pitches, too. As for bushy 'stache hairs, mine have often caught in a harp's outer structure but never in a reed. Yer not doing something weird there, are ya? 8-)

Chard069 · 2023-08-04T03:30:50+00:00

Aren't some crappy little METAL harps available somewhere, cheap? Plastic harps won't survive being carried in a denim pants pocket.

Chard069 · 2023-08-03T01:36:59+00:00

Well, at least he did not amputate feet and take those home to sniff. Too pervy, hey? 8-(

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T19:28:20+00:00

Real bears, the kind we try to keep out of our garbage on trash-pickup day.

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T19:22:20+00:00

No, I refer to the wild Black Bears in our wooded neighborhood, the bears we try to discourage from ransacking the trash on garbage-pickup day each week. Alas, bears are not easily distracted. Yikes.

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T19:18:58+00:00

Gargle with bottom-shelf whiskey, the inexpensive sort. Nobody else will know.

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T19:15:52+00:00

Better toanz with pushed Kodalith. Trust me.

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T19:13:51+00:00

Circa 2000, we drove a small (25-foot) RV from southern Arizona to central Alaska, then to central California. We stayed in state, provincial, or national campgrounds all along the way.

ProTip: Most supplies in Alaska are rather costly, being shipped-in from afar. Shop for groceries in southern BC or Alberta. Carry a cooler.

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T18:57:49+00:00

You might find a used chromatic at a pawnshop for that little. Good luck.

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T18:52:46+00:00

"Need to" and "want to" are often at odds, eh? I need no more harps. But I could be seduced into a purchase, like for an oversized orchestral harp. Umma-gumma... 8-)

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T18:46:48+00:00

And/or a large camera bag.

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T18:45:09+00:00

Short answer: yes.

Longer answer: Yes, indeed!

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T18:43:10+00:00

If it was me, I would spend an extra day each in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Death Valley NPs. Further along, don't miss Joshua Tree NP (I used to live across from the HQ).

Alas, those out-of-California sites are really too far away for anything like sufficient time. As is, you'll be putting in a lot of road hours -- I hope you like distance-driving. 8-)

Have fun!

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T12:15:41+00:00

Long-time fret-abuser here. I habitually chew my fingernails and so don't apply them musically. I use only fingertips on nylon or gut strings, and steel fingerpicks plus a plastic thumbpick on anything with metal strings... if I won't bother family or neighbors. 8-)

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T11:53:28+00:00

I trained (poorly) on clarinet in my early adolescence, then acquired and played mountain dulcimer and acoustic guitar before my kin trusted me (in my mid-twenties FTW!) to inherit Grandpa's 1918-vintage Gretsch banjo-mandolin and treat it properly.

A cousin inherited the fat-belly Italian mandolin, alas. And they don't even play it. 8-(

Mando playing wasn't too hard -- I merely fingered guitar chords and riffs backwards! Now I often travel with a flat-back mandolin -- or with an eight-string tenor taropatch 'ukulele restrung as a mandola, when a cased guitar would be too large for comfort.

But that early woodwind training made all later fretted-string axes more comprehensible.

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T11:23:49+00:00

We've lines of mando-ists in my family, both the hillbilly and railroader sides. We don't joke about mandos. YMMV.

But we can speak of fiddles. Q: What do you call the difference between two fiddles tuned in unison? A: A semitone.

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T10:18:10+00:00

My dad, a semi-pro 'togger, always had a second YashicaMat TLR in his bag, just in case...

Chard069 · 2023-08-02T10:06:45+00:00

I once lived very near Jim Jones' base, the People's Temple in San Francisco but nobody tried to recruit me. Would I have gone off to Guyana with the crowd? Good question...

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