a truck like this…

Posted on by August 25, 2019

One of my camp buddies bought a truck like this my first year at camp.

That would have been in the early ’80’s.

He paid a thousand dollars for it and drove it away.

I remember hearing part of the conversation he had with the camp owner about how it might be hard to find parts for it.

Funny how your mind remembers details that don’t even have much to do with your own life.

I remember them standing on the landsports field…talking about this truck.

Weird that I’d remember that.

Old trucks are like old guitars, though….they were a lot easier to find 40 years ago than they are today.

When “old” wasn’t so “old”….it was easier to get ahold of.

Duh.

The Beatles…”Hey Jude” take 9

Posted on by August 23, 2019

I used to listen to this song over and over….some balm for an aching adolescent heart.

Goofy.

This is a “working version”….just a bunch of musicians figuring it all out.

So young….so talented.

These films are amazing….

3 of the 4…having fun.

Posted on by August 23, 2019

When you get past all the mythologizing….these guys were friends who loved playing music together.

This is a performance from 1994….when “the lads” got together to play some music.

And Ringo said, “I like hanging out with you guys….”

Awwwwwww.

Silent Movie (in Japanese)….”The Perfect Japanese Breakfast”

Posted on by August 22, 2019

Can you tell what’s happening in this video?

I’m not sure that I completely understand….but…it’s making me hungry.

This is a great breakfast….but (again…”but”) I don’t usually take the time to mindfully prepare a beautiful morning feast.

Usually, it’s too much coffee and a quick bowl of cereal.

Then, in the harried afternoon, while I’m delivering the mail, I wolf down a banana and a peanut butter sandwich.

Every day the same….food to fill the belly, not to feed the soul.

How much more pleasant would it be to eat something like this?

What kind of world do these people live in?

I’d like to sit and eat when I felt calm.

I think that “calm” would be good for the digestion.

Fluffy’s Buses

Posted on by August 21, 2019

Hah!!

Look at Fluffy’s (Gabriel Iglesias’) buses!

I don’t have that much money right now…but…what a fun way to spend it.

If you’re going to specialize, the Volkswagen bus is a cool and unusual choice.

It’s a lot more interesting than a garage full of Ferraris.

I had a 1967 bus sitting in our driveway in Marietta for years…

$200.00 and I can’t even remember how I got it home.

I might have driven it….I don’t remember, really.

The engine had a bunch of pieces of piston in the oil when I tore it down.

Too bad.

I might know how to fix it now….but I sold it for 400.00 when I had to clean up my projects a bunch of years later.

“Projects” work better on a farm than they do in the suburbs.

Fluffy has some nice buses.

That’s a fun choice.

 

Quang Tran!! ASMR!! Good Food!! Go, Man, Go!!

Posted on by August 20, 2019

Quang Tran….chowing down.

If you don’t know about this guy…just wait for the chomping and slurping at the end of the video.

If it brings you a feeling of well being….or….just brings you a FEELING, then….maybe you understand what ASMR is all about.

Here’s a definition:

Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is an experience characterized by a static-like or tingling sensation on the skin that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. It has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia[2][3] and may overlap with frisson.

ASMR signifies the subjective experience of “low-grade euphoria” characterized by “a combination of positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the skin”. It is most commonly triggered by specific auditory or visual stimuli, and less commonly by intentional attention control.[1][4]

(from the Wikipedia page….)

This guy’s YouTube page has….(CHECK IT!!) ….1.5 million subscribers!!

That’s one point five MILLION…(1,500,000) SUBSCRIBERS!!

And…he deserves it.

So much fun….and….the slurping makes me feel so tingly and good all over!

I can’t stop watching….and learning how to cook good stuff from this guy!

Quang Tran!!

Check him out!

Push it IN….Pull it OUT

Posted on by August 19, 2019

Check out this Russian dude working on a trashed Landcruiser!

What gets pushed in can be pulled out!

Who saw that coming?

This is interesting to get a look behind the curtain and to realize how these guys fix something like this….something that looks like it’s too messed up to repair.

If you have a welder and some hydraulics and some posts to attach your puller to…..and a bunch of experience and skill…you can fix this stuff.

Good job….

We Need the POWER!!

Posted on by August 17, 2019

The summer before my senior year in High School, I worked on a crew up in Minnesota that did this.

Commonwealth Electric….

Man…..that was a while ago.

What a great experience.

This video is about bringing lines through a very remote and pristine part of Alaska.

I don’t know what I think about it.

I like power.

People need power.

You get power through these big lines.

That’s reality.

It seems like a shame that it has to go through these wilderness areas, though.

I’m not on the end that needs power, though, so it’s easy for me to adopt the “treehugger philisophy” and say something like that.

This is some heavy engineering to do something like this, for sure.

Somewhere, too, somebody is writing an environmentalist rant on a computer that is being powered by a line going through the wilderness.

That’s life.

Living in a house of logged wood….using the power that men like this brought to them…and complaining about how these guys are ruining “nature”.

Pretty ironic, huh?

“Will It Start?”

Posted on by August 17, 2019

This is kind of unusual for this kind of video.

Most of the time, the machines don’t “go” for a while.

They usually don’t start so quickly.

This is a huge tractor for $700.00.

I love this type of video where people take something abandoned and resurrect it.

You can get things to go again with a little care most of the time.

Kind of like people, sometimes.

These guys are ready for anything, though.

Check out the bottle of ketchup on their dash.

Action…..men of action.