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Wayoftheredpanda

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Not anything new, but my current vinyl collection

Magical Mystery Tour- The Beatles (Original near-mint quality)
White Album- The Beatles (50th anniversary reprint, includes demo tapes too)
Cultösaurus Erectus- Blue Öyster Cult (Original mediocre quality)
Hotel California- The Eagles (reprint)
Some Enchanted Evening- Blue Öyster Cult (collector’s edition reprint)
On Your Feet, or On Your Knees- Blue Öyster Cult (Original near-mint quality)
Abbey Road- The Beatles (Reprint)
The Royal Scam- Steely Dan (Original decent quality)
 

swiftdog2.0

I tell you one and one makes three...
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Saturday (4/13/2019) is Record Store Day!

There are a couple things I'm hoping to score. One is a Ramones double live album. It's not the It's Alive release but is from the same era.

Also, my Charvel is on the way! It's scheduled to be delivered on Thursday. Of course, I will not be home most of the day and when I called UPS to reschedule the delivery they would not do it. I have to wait for them to make a failed delivery attempt and then I can reschedule. It really makes my head hurt. That's another story for another thread. Well, maybe not. Gist of the story is all delivery companies don't care about non-commercial accounts and treat individual customers like crap.
 

Spideyman

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Just north of Duma Key
Saturday (4/13/2019) is Record Store Day!

There are a couple things I'm hoping to score. One is a Ramones double live album. It's not the It's Alive release but is from the same era.

Also, my Charvel is on the way! It's scheduled to be delivered on Thursday. Of course, I will not be home most of the day and when I called UPS to reschedule the delivery they would not do it. I have to wait for them to make a failed delivery attempt and then I can reschedule. It really makes my head hurt. That's another story for another thread. Well, maybe not. Gist of the story is all delivery companies don't care about non-commercial accounts and treat individual customers like crap.
See the first part of the article/ before delivery. Is there a UPS store near your location?
Receiving My Packages: UPS - United States
 

DiO'Bolic

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Nov 14, 2013
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I picked up two extensions for one of my gas trimmers... a pole saw and a hedge trimmer which extends my reach for the holly bushes, burning bushes and arborvitaes that have become unruly. They were last years displays and I got them for $20 each.

I now have a manual and three gas trimmers, four hedge trimmers (manual, electric, battery, gas) and a manual and gas pole saw. I think tools have become an addiction. :(
 
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Dana Jean

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I picked up two extensions for one of my gas trimmers... a pole saw and a hedge trimmer which extends my reach for the holly bushes, burning bushes and arborvitaes that have become unruly. They were last years displays and I got them for $20 each.

I now have a manual and three gas trimmers, four hedge trimmers (manual, electric, battery, gas) and a manual and gas pole saw. I think tools have become an addiction. :(
Did you get the father-in-law a new lawnmower? And her name is insert wife's name here.
 

Spideyman

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Just north of Duma Key
I picked up two extensions for one of my gas trimmers... a pole saw and a hedge trimmer which extends my reach for the holly bushes, burning bushes and arborvitaes that have become unruly. They were last years displays and I got them for $20 each.

I now have a manual and three gas trimmers, four hedge trimmers (manual, electric, battery, gas) and a manual and gas pole saw. I think tools have become an addiction. :(
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DiO'Bolic

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LOL. I may have to get one of those. It will complement a t-shirt the wife got me....

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DiO'Bolic

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Did you get the father-in-law a new lawnmower? And her name is insert wife's name here.
Yes I did. An 80-volt brushless rear-wheel drive lithium battery one. Hopefully he won't kill it in 2.5 years as it doesn't require checking if there is any oil in the thing.

And her name is insert wife's name here... 'BEAST' :) (like she would ever go down and mow his lawn... as she often says "those type of things are the reason I got married .')
 
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fljoe0

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DiO'Bolic

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I bought one of these and it is awesome. All you do is put 1/4 cup of popcorn in it and put the lid on it and cook for about 3 minutes and you have popcorn. This is about as minimum clean-up as it gets. It's silicone, so no BPAs.

Nice! I remember the days when the only options were either this…

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or this…

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Dana Jean

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I learned about that job over the weekend watching some TV program. I think it was on some show about opening up a room to the public underneath some castle or something, or on antiques. :)
Just thinking about the hygiene of those times -- the logistics of personal hygiene -- oh man. It just grosses me out. Could these bodily smells and fungus and sores and ugh! Could they have been so immune to that? Yes, everyone was a hot mess, but distasteful smells and weeping sores are repugnant no matter when you lived. Right? Right?