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July 2, 2021: Piano for Sale

Second day of July 2021 and I’m helping an acquaintance selling a piano. It is not going to be easy because a piano like that sells about $12,000 and who’s buying?

Another thing I’ve been working on is updating a website for a friend. Unfortunately there were some issues with the hosting server that wouldn’t publish the changes. This is going to take longer that I expected.

On music, my friend had secured a few tickets to see Bad Religion and Alkaline Trio this fall. General Admission tickets were about $45 each plus a few hundred dollars in “convenience fee”. Now it has gone up to $85 each, labeled as “Verified Resale Ticket”. I hate the whole ticket reselling scheme.

I also received a CD in the mail.

In case you can’t read the band logo, it is “CADAVER”

I haven’t listen to it yet. CADAVER – “Edder & Bile” was released in November 2020.

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First Quarantine, One Year to the Date

February 28, 2021 marks exactly one year to the date when I had to voluntarily self-quarantine. A flight attendant friend told me that she was ordered by the airline to quarantine due to possible exposure to COVID-19. Since I did have close contact with her, I needed to self-quarantine. Luckily we later found out that we were not exposed to this novel Coronavirus.

Yes, it has been open year.

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2021, Day Three

Southern California Sunset

A lot of things happened on the first Sunday of 2021 in the news. I won’t get to that since you can search for them.

I was cleaning my 2014 MacBook Pro as it has accumulated a lot of dust inside.

Cleaning MacBook Pro
Cleaning MacBook Pro

Elliot is staying with us for the next few days.

Elliot Spritzer T. Kitten
Elliot Spritzer T. Kitten

The (funny) Allen Tire Company is at it again.

Allen Tire Company Private Sign
Allen Tire Company Private Sign
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2021, Day Two

Shampoo and Prosecutor

Captain’s log, January 2nd, 2021.

Oh wait, we were watching some Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes on Amazon Prime Video earlier.

Found some wines from 2002 and 2004 under the counter. Hopefully they do not taste like vinegar.

2002 Rheinhessen Spätlese and 2004 Pinot Grigio Wine
2002 Rheinhessen Spätlese and 2004 Pinot Grigio Wine

Also saw a belt sander next to a motel that is under renovation.

Belt Sander
Belt Sander

Overall, it was a “too-early-in-the-year” kind of day.

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2021, Day One

Prosecutor T. Kitten

So this is 2021?

How’s your year so far? I spent most of the day at home, then went to the office where no one else to be found.

I really did spend a lot of time at home on January 1, 2021… with two of the cutest kittens.

Shampoo T. Kitten
Shampoo T. Kitten
Prosecutor T. Kitten
Prosecutor T. Kitten

They officially became part of the family on Christmas Day, 2020.

It started with a blown tire.

Flat Tire
Flat Tire
Crack in the Tire
Crack in the Tire

The day became a lot better as these two finally join the family.

Shampoo and Prosecutor
Shampoo and Prosecutor

I’m trying to convince everyone to adopt the third sibling that I called Elliot.

Eliot Spritzer
Eliot Spritzer
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Where’s the High-E String?

One thing that often happens while playing guitar is to break the high-E string.

What should I do?

  • Keep playing. Who needs high-E string if you can play only power chords?
  • Stop playing and get dinner.
  • Complain to my roadie, which I certainly do not have.
  • Make appointment with my usual guitar technician and wait 4 weeks. Yeah, he is that busy.
  • Make a post about it. Oh, wait… this post is the post.
  • Have a friend restring the guitar.
  • Put the guitar in the case and play some mobile games.
  • Restring the guitar. That’s a lot of non-slacking time.
  • and the list goes on and on and on and on…