78s are hard to play...with a standard player...

Check out this colletor's legacy: 78s.

Moved house and busy

No internet here...
but anyhow check this crazy cartoon out... what's it called and where can I get the whole episode (s)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqi5F5MqqTQ&feature=related

Time Flies

Yesterday spent a whole 12 hours in Langley learning power equipment and bbq product knowledge. It's the beginning of the season for the Homme Dee. What can I say though, except that as time went by I was getting more and more interested in mowing the lawn or indeed investing in a fine toothed hedge trimmer. Bad news, spending so much time around power tools.

I think I'll recommend nothing but reel mowers and organic gardening supplies from here on in.

Moving!

I am moving from 1830 East Pender... which begs the question, do I maintain the blog as such or change the name? That's the challenge.

Also I have been working too much at the HomeeDee, making money and eating too many m&ms on my breaks.



I drive forklift now. (note the Albertan vernacular - no need for an article).

It's an art.

Girly Man, Man, Man, Man... ad infinitum

Tweed.

New Bike, Colon Nuggets

A tip off from a friend led to a new bicycle yesterday. She's the right size and yellow. It needs a new bottom bracket pin. But she works!

Pedaled her to work and back, stopping at Fujiya on the way...


I have sampled these "biscuit nuggets" and hope that the name has no literal origin.

Slide Guitar Project

About a year-and-a-half ago I started to daydream about dream jobs. The frustrating lethargy that affects many Vancouver transplants, in my case, related to a feeling that there will never be space or capital to create. So I bought a router at the Sally Anne; a drill press from Canadian Tire; a palm sander from a pawn shop and wood from Windsor Plywood.


I started making my own slide guitars. The one above is a prototype made from a fir two-by-four.

Now, they are still unfinished, and I have moved, losing the drill press along the way. But now that I am back here I feel like the guitars could use a little energy.

Maybe you'll drop in one day to find me sanding or finishing these mahogany beauties.