Jump to content
Gibson Brands Forums

SteveFord

All Access
  • Posts

    5,639
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    59

Everything posted by SteveFord

  1. I have one around my neck at the moment so they're not too hard to find, ha, ha. Tons of them on eBay and Reverb, I'm sure.
  2. I had a Faded Flying V that came with that 496r /500 t combo. They were stupidly hot, I did not care for them very much but for metal they might be what you're after.
  3. A strange one. Aside from it being a day to remember the fallen it's also the kick off of Summer. One thing I always looked forward to was Memorial Day Sale at Guitar Center. Even if I didn't buy anything it was a given. Not this year.
  4. Dorm room bed so close enough.
  5. They were great. I will always fondly remember being with a girlfriend while Do The Strand was playing. She looked up at me with a big grin and said, "We're not doing it on the table!"
  6. I think $1000 is low balling it. When I asked about a strip and refinish on a neck they quoted me $750 a few years back.
  7. We "Go Yellow" this Friday. This should be interesting. We're at 857 cases today, I am going to predict 2500 on 6/22/2020. Hope I'm wrong! The State Reps who are pushing this as being so great for us still have their offices closed and are working from home.
  8. Her reactions are just great. I liked when she saw him playing under the stall in the men's room.
  9. I'm looking at Australia and thinking what the hell, how did they do so good? Why are we such a disaster? https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgias-coronavirus-numbers-made-reopening-183733274.html
  10. We had 923 of us here in PA kick the bucket yesterday from this virus. Being bored, I checked to see what the normal average death rate here is and the last year that figures were published was 2017. In 2017 we averaged 371 deaths per day from accidentally dropping plugged in toasters into the bath tub to stepping in front of giant corn threshers to being eaten by pterodactyls. Quite the jump.
  11. I must have missed something, I'm still looking for a Candy Apple Red Firebird VII like the one I sold. You guys keep your eyes open for something in the $2000 range, please. Les is more, to coin a phrase.
  12. Speaking of herd immunity: https://news.yahoo.com/herd-immunity-help-stop-coronavirus-230355956.html
  13. Baby, you're wrinklicous, let's both take our teeth out this time.
  14. Someone is stopping you? I'm sure you could buy some as part of a take out order.
  15. As I understand it, the Mennonites are an offshoot, they've embraced the modern world and are the ones running the "Amish" markets and restaurants. That could be Amish running the markets, though. I had a female Mennonite boss and took this one really wild Mennonite girl for a long motorcycle ride; like everyone else, there's a wide variety of behaviors in people. The Amish are the horse and buggy brigade but even they use telephones as long as they are a certain distance from the house and they hire people to drive them around. I'm told that the reason the Amish stuck to their lifestyle had to do with rejecting anything that would cause them to be dependent on the British hundreds of years ago. Something to do with paying taxes on something or other and they said screw it and the rest is history. I'm not from this area but I've been told that the Amish are good to deal with, the Mennonites not so much. With those sailors, either it never fully left and they were getting false negatives or it circled back. If it circled back not good is quite the understatement.
  16. Yes, my supplier got it and said anything more than walking now leaves him winded. I wonder about the damage it does if it doesn't kill you off. People in their 30s and 40s are showing up with COVID-19 and the symptom is blood clots, one had to have his leg amputated. This is a weird thing that's floating around.
  17. A friend of mine in Lancaster says that out of staters brought it in which could be part of it. It's kind of a tourist trap for people to see the Amish (they're actually seeing the Mennonites but close enough). They come in from NY and NJ and away it goes. My dopey little town had no cases last time I checked, today we have 7. My better half says expect 25 by next week, I think we're about to get hammered here. They made this a political thing instead of a public health issue so we're pretty much screwed.
  18. Australia really kept it under control. Good job!
  19. In my spare time I've been keeping a spread sheet of the cases going on around me. Yes, we're still dropping dead in these here parts. Guys in their 30s and 40s are getting blood clots (one had his leg amputated), kids are showing up with Toxic Shock Sydrome-like symptoms, and the elderly and infirm are going toes up. Next Friday my county goes into Code Yellow which means stay at home orders will be lifted. Childcare centers and some retail shops can reopen and gatherings of up to 25 are allowed. Telework should continue at business where it is possible. Restaurants and bars will still be limited to takeout and delivery. School buildings will remain closed, along with gyms, salons and theaters. Visits to nursing homes and prisons will still be prohibited. We'll see how this goes. My guess is the locals will act like everything is back to normal and this area will see a monster spike in cases which will lead to another lock down which the locals will ignore until we have numbers like NJ. All I can say is that I am so glad that I'm married, own a house and can telework. I really feel the people in the cities, the service industry workers and the blue collar workers. I can't imagine being a truck driver or a postal worker or a restaurant owner. What do you do? You can forget concerts this year, motorcycle rallies are out, the annual Central PA Beer Bash and Group Grope has been put on hold, it's just crazy. You can see here how it's kind of oozed it's way across NY and NJ and then goes dead where it's just farmers and cornfields: https://www.wgal.com/article/pennsylvania-counties-reopening-coronavirus/32343176# The red areas are also where the college kids returned from Spring Break in Florida.
  20. Another 137 dead since yesterday here in the wilds of Pennsyltucky. Locals milling around with no masks and clumping together at the old fishing hole. No bike stop for me on my after work ride. Here's a disturbing one: two people in York County today tested positive with NO fever at present or in the recent past. One just had body aches and chest pain, the other one had chest pain and diarrhea recently. So much for testing people for a fever as a quick and dirty check.
  21. I went to the grocery store in York today and it is just so weird to see everyone (myself included) wearing gloves and masks and looking at each other funny. I never imagined things would be like this but here we are. Up 21 more cases in Dauphin Country since yesterday, 9 in York, up 817 state wide with another 75 dead from it. February 6th we had our first confirmed death from it, we're now at 1,400,000 (give or take) with 82,925 dead. That's less than 14 weeks.
  22. We're still happily croaking as time goes past. Only 24 new deaths state wide since yesterday, hardly worth thinking about. 57,154 positive cases in the state, I'm thinking we'll top 100,000 well before the 4th of July. If I'm lucky I won't be in that count.
×
×
  • Create New...