SNOW DAY

[memaquay]

Well, for the first time that I can remember, our entire school board has shut down for the day due to freezing rain. No one is allowed in the school, not even teachers. Must be southern values migrating north, I've had to go to school before when it was -50 and I had to snow shoe to get there. So I'm at a loss as to what to do. Help me out people....

1. Should I get into my unheated garage before the power goes out and bead and cove my strips for the square stern? (-20 with wind chill)

2. Should I watch Netflix all day and gain another five pounds?

3. Should I start drinking Bud Lite and dance around the living room to Lady Gaga tunes?

4. Should I research nautical history and write a comprehensive reply about canoes with stern winds that will simply crush Mike and Glenn, leaving them to fumble through a J. Winter's books for a rebuttal?

5. Perhaps I should go out to my winter tent with my two wood burning stoves and fry up the last of the Spam from the Great Contest, film it and post it for those of you struggling with diets. P.S. the Jalapeno spam was not everything I though it would be, at least not at 2 AM in the morning after consuming the appropriate amount of liquid courage necessary to make one eat Jalapeno Spam.

6. Any other suggestions?

Yours truly,

Bored on a snow day

 

[yellowcanoe]

I think the southern climate is coming your way. Snow at minus 50 as you know has excellent traction.. Ice .. glaze .. not so much...
Set up your stoves in the unheated garage.. Go forth and bead and cove.. Take a headlamp and a squirrel for power. What no generator?? Gee you must be civilized up there.. dependable utilities.

 

[Alan Gage]

Preparing strips for the square stern is the obvious priority. At the rate you're going it won't be done in time for moose season and you might need it in case you accidentally shoot one this year.

Alan

 

[memaquay]

Geeze, all work, no play, I was hoping for a ringing endorsement for a dance date with Gaga.

 

[Boatman53]

Actually, Mem that would have been my vote.
Jim

 

[Alan Gage]

Geeze, all work, no play, I was hoping for a ringing endorsement for a dance date with Gaga.

No reason not to combine the two. Plenty of singing and dancing has taken place in my shop and I don't even have a way to play music out there......which is why I'll never live stream a build.

Alan

 

[frozentripper]

This is guaranteed to warm up any unheated garage, any time, any weather... plenty of warmth, plenty of fresh air. Unlike lady gaga, it isn't necessary to consume huge quantities of beer first... ah,Texas sunshine moving north (eventually).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPM7zzElj-Q

 

[Iskweo]

Put your snowshoes on, open the windows to get some cold air, Bud Lite and Gaga. Fabricate a treatise on following winds with no substantiation and then stick adamantly to your conclusions. Be sure to wear the Ripster while dancing. Just an idea.

Christy

 

[Guest]

So I'm at a loss as to what to do. Help me out people....

While #4 has some allure I fear the resulting design would be a massive motor powered canoe design to haul intermodal containers of Spam.

I favor a variation of #3, substituting something leafy for the Bud Lite, Jimi Hendrix vinyl for Lady Gaga CD’s and cavorting chap-clad and otherwise butt naked in the front yard.

 

[Odyssey]

What happened to the young boy I knew with ice cold courage in his heart and piercing vision in his soul? Get your glad rags on son and get out to that hot tent. Go ahead and dig out that Gaga outfit we all know you have buried in the back of your wife's closet and put it on. Don't forget the boombox and a fine tune selection. Load it up and push play...then just let the music move you. And when the dancing fever has run it's course and you're ready to come down, just shed the revealing sparkly garb, crawl back into the ordinary clothes of our ordinary times and fry up some pork happiness, crack open a cold one (Lite of course) and chill. Get all reflective and dreamy, scribble down some blurry thoughts, post them on this forum, and then fall asleep to the pitter patter of rain on canvas.
And there you have my formula for an afternoon well spent. Minus the Gaga. And the outfit. Otherwise it's pretty universal.

 

[Alan Gage]

Jimi Hendrix vinyl for Lady Gaga CD’s

I was thinking the other day how CDs are turning into the new vinyl. They're outdated technology but no doubt will retain a cult following for the simple pleasure of having an actual product you can hold in your hands, liner notes inside the jewel case, and the quaintness of dealing with scratches and skipping playback every time you stomp too hard while dancing.

While part of this in tongue cheek I'm also somewhat serious. I've been buying Okey Dokey Brothers CDs for a 4 year old friend of mine. His dad thinks that's dumb and told me to just get him MP3s so mom and dad can put it on their phone for playback any time, any place. But where's the fun in that? This week I'm searching for a small CD player I can give him when we get together this weekend so he can be in control of his own music. I'll probably burn him a couple CDs of music I used to listen to on vinyl when I was his age too. Doc Watson and Boxcar Willie.

Alan

 

[Mihun09]

I was thinking the other day how CDs are turning into the new vinyl. They're outdated technology but no doubt will retain a cult following for the simple pleasure of having an actual product you can hold in your hands, liner notes inside the jewel case, and the quaintness of dealing with scratches and skipping playback every time you stomp too hard while dancing.

While part of this in tongue cheek I'm also somewhat serious. I've been buying Okey Dokey Brothers CDs for a 4 year old friend of mine. His dad thinks that's dumb and told me to just get him MP3s so mom and dad can put it on their phone for playback any time, any place. But where's the fun in that? This week I'm searching for a small CD player I can give him when we get together this weekend so he can be in control of his own music. I'll probably burn him a couple CDs of music I used to listen to on vinyl when I was his age too. Doc Watson and Boxcar Willie.

Alan

I have an old Sony Discman I can send you for that purpose. I think I have all the pieces still. If I want old-school, I have a Pioneer 8 track deck and boxcar Willie in that format. I gave away my MP3 player since the screen was too small to read and if I want music I have a radio or CD's. I like having a hard copy of everything I want to listen to or watch.

 

[Odyssey]

Darn straight there Alan. We may be living in a throw away society, but we're not stuck in it.
We're staying with daughter and s-i-l at the moment, and for the past few consecutive evenings he's played vinyl (bought used) on his cabinet record player he inherited. Tho' I'm not a huge fan of his music, last night was Queen's Killer, night before that was Saturday Night Fever, tonight will likely be Rush, but I do like his approach to music listening. The technology needn't be any more outdated than the music. He has satellite radio in the truck, and a vinyl record player in the living room. It's all good.

 

[Alan Gage]

I have an old Sony Discman I can send you for that purpose. I think I have all the pieces still. If I want old-school, I have a Pioneer 8 track deck and boxcar Willie in that format. I gave away my MP3 player since the screen was too small to read and if I want music I have a radio or CD's. I like having a hard copy of everything I want to listen to or watch.

Thanks for the offer. A friend offered up something similar but I'm afraid the controls would be too small and fiddly for him. I'd like something with built in speakers and simple controls. My dad has one in the office, maybe I can talk him out of it....if it still works.

Alan

 

[Guest]

We're staying with daughter and s-i-l at the moment, and for the past few consecutive evenings he's played vinyl (bought used) on his cabinet record player he inherited.

One of my son’s friends in middle school was a young Korean nerd. The first time he came to the house he saw the collection of old vinyl albums and made a bee line for it. We still have a working turntable and speakers in the family room.

The first thing he put on was side 2 of Axis Bold as Love. It wasn’t random, he was a 12 year old Hendrix fan. Man I liked that kid.

There are two kinds of people in the world, when a Hendrix song comes on the radio one of them cranks up the volume.

 

[Canotrouge]

I'm all for #4... But that is just me... You could do it wile drinking beer in you tent frying spam wile listening to the gaga!!
Up here as well time are changing, more rules, more rules, more rules. More people that move up here for the wrong reasons, they are in a rush to get some where, they are in a rush to do things, they want everything yesterday but don't want to pay, they need everything to be bigger, 4k square feet house, 500hp p/u truck..... There was a time when we use to back country ski, and people on skis wouldn't ride a snowmobile and sledders, wouldn't mix with the skiers... We had quite weekends in the mountains, not anymore!!

Am I off topic?!?!

 

[Alan Gage]

Am I off topic?!?!

We're canoe trippers. We're all off topic.

Alan

 

[yellowcanoe]

We're all just plain off. Ask our neighbors.

 

[memaquay]

By the way, have any of you guys, er gals, well....have any of you people noticed that super market tomatoes kinda smell like fish? Are they putting fish DNA in those tomatoes now? Or is the tumour in my head acting up again?

 

[Boreal Birch]

Mem...........
Stefani Germanotta just called, she is in a rental van she picked up at Thunder Bay International Airport. She needs to know the the directions to your place. She is currently going East the on 11/17, presently crossing Nipigon Bridge. She has some of her dancers with her, she has told me that there is nothing better than a Snow Day for a party.
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