The PUB light's ON! :D

[Mrleft8]

Seems like most glasses frames these days are all squinty flat rectangle or squished oval things.
Styles change....
It's a gloomy Wednesday morning. Spitting rain, and heavy low clouds. It's fairly warm though.
Got some of that good chicken soup, with fresh bread and butter.
There's shepherd's pie, made with ground lamb and ground beef, peas, carrots, and mashed potatoes. Served with soda bread and sweet butter.
Grilled sausage with mashed potato, and baked beans.
Shrimp salad sandwich, on lightly toasted whole wheat, with lettuce and tomato. Served with fries and a pickle.
and rotisserie rabbit, stuffed with wild rice and mixed diced vegetables, Served with hot buttered rolls, and a small side salad.
Special on tap: Pabst blue ribbon

[Mrleft8]

Pinch that gorilla on the butt and make him jump Bobby!

[Hwyl]

Good to see you Bobby, got any coffee on the go.

As for glasses try www.zenni.com huge selection great people and about a quarter of the price of those opticians.

[Mrleft8]

Coffee on the Go-rilla for Gareth.

[Mrleft8]

[David G]

The White Stripes cover Dylan - One More Cup of Coffee Before I Go:



Yesterday, I had my first cup of coffee since the throat surgery. Tested mighty good!

[Mrleft8]

Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs did a version of that song.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Ok David G, what was wrong with the throat?? No coffee? Hows about beer?

[David G]

Ok David G, what was wrong with the throat?? No coffee? Hows about beer?

Cancerous lump on my uvula removed. I'm about healed up from the surgery now, so can drink coffee and beer. My pipe is permanently retired, however. During the upcoming radiation treatments, I'm instructed to skip any sort of alcohol and probably won't be much interested in hot coffee. The treatments apparently leave you feeling like you have a sunburn on the roof of your mouth. Hard to eat, swallow, and talk. Lukewarm, soft food once that starts.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Thoughts and prayers from Okieland. I will even burn some Cedar for ya. Mend fast.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Ah Mr.7, Was wondering about you. Thought you might have been swallowed up by all that work.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

That thing sure was stubborn.

[seanz]

Be well David G. And be real glad they got onto that when they did.

Beer thanks, then maybe something for breakfast......

[seanz]

Have you guys heard Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi..

No, but I have now. Thanks.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

seanz, I thought beer was breakfast.

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Sweet Tune, never heard that before. Love the Hammond B3 with the Whurlitzer!
Well darned if you didn't go and share some of the Okie excitement... we're under tornado watch 'till 9 pm.
Better give the pup a run gonna be a interesting evening.
http:www.weather spark.com

Hope you miss that stuff. Hunker down and keep safe. I am off to the doctor again, back in a while I hope.

[Mrleft8]

Lump on yer uvula?...... I thought only women had those....
Luke warm soft food huh?..... Gonna have to bring MMike in to cook then.... I hear he does a mean strained carrot thing....
Yeah SY7....I heard there was tomatoes down around Hotlanta.....
It's just pouring rain here, and getting cooler.

[Spin_Drift]

David G., Prayers and smoke sent your way from us in Alaska. Get well soon.

I miss Chuckie (Paladin). Have to go find one of his old recipes, make it for dinner and burn a candle for him.

In the meanwhile, it's 14 F (degrees) winds blowing at 25-30mph. Husband just left for the harbor. Going to build a fire on Orca and making checking that the ocean water in the harbor hasn't started to freeze around Orca.

I got this info from NOAA;

Ocean water freezes just like freshwater, but at lower temperatures. Fresh water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), but seawater freezes at about -1.9 degrees Celsius (28.4 degrees Fahrenheit) because of the salt in it. When seawater freezes, however, the ice contains very little salt because only the water part freezes. It can be melted down to use as drinking water.

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanfreeze.html

[Mrleft8]

Doctor!? I thought you quit!

[seanz]

seanz, I thought beer was breakfast.

It's only a proper breakfast if there's cold pizza.

[Mrleft8]

LOL! Those crazy scientists! Yes, only the water part of sea water freezes, but the salt that's stuck between the frozen bits of water is still salty.

[Mrleft8]

A bale of hay sprinkled around the hull as freezin' sets in can cushion her berth.
I miss Chuck too!
Wanna know what I'd like to ask him...

"Who really deserves your swim fins....?"

[Mrleft8]

Red Oak RR ties? Unlikely. White Oak, or Black Locust.....
The real Heineken is good stuff. Hard to believe they can get away with selling the swill they do here.... It's just plain old foul....Then again, Americans drink Budweasle, Miller, and Coors by the bucket full.....

[skuthorp]

Heads up Lefty, there's a good religious thread developing. We'll need refreshments before this is over.

[Mrleft8]

I saw!
I'm making ham sammiches to send over.....

[Bobby of Tulsa]

Ok, back from the doctor. New to me doctor, looks me over looks at my chart. He says you know people die from this? I said DUH. He looked at me and said Bobby, Iam not going to let you die. So monday we meet at the hospital, so I can spend some more money. One of us may be crazy.

[Mrleft8]

I like your new Dr..... Send him in! He drinks free! (Along with the rest of you freeloaders around here!)

[Mrleft8]

[David G]

A good reason to do your drinking at Leftys' pub, David G. wishing you a speedy recovery! You might like to try the brownies they're not full of nuts and kind soft when fresh. Best find a spot in a comfy chair an sit back we'll get you a coke or would ginger ale be more to your liking?
Bobby good to seayou bro.
Have you guys heard Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi...She has that Sheryl Crow, gotta love em' thing goin' on!

Yeah, I've got one of her CD's, and a bit more on some other blues compilations. Nice stuff!

Thanks everyone for the good wishes. I think I'll have a good Porter or Stout while I still can!

[Bobby of Tulsa]

I want some of that root beer.

[Mrleft8]

The North Coast Brewing Co. Out of Ft. Bragg, Ca. has a very good, very smooth Russian Imperial Stout.
You might actually even be able to enjoy it during radiation.... Or at least tolerate it.

[Mrleft8]

Looks a bit like rootbeer too Bobby!

[Bobby of Tulsa]

The North Coast Brewing Co. Out of Ft. Bragg, Ca. has a very good, very smooth Russian Imperial Stout.
You might actually even be able to enjoy it during radiation.... Or at least tolerate it.

I hope you brought enough for everyone.

[Mrleft8]

Old Hires is what I crave when I crave root beer.... New Hires (If they even still bother) is just sugar water with fizz. A&W isn't the same either. Too much sugar, too little flavor. IBC is OK.... And Stewart's is OK.... But still not the same as old Hires.

[Chip-skiff]

I want those glasses when Harry's done with em Chip.

You're out of luck, Lefty. Harry's so cool he'll probably live forever.

Bobster— Glad the Doc thinks there's hope. If he starts talking sex change, I'd get a second opinion.

Here's a song that Harry taught me. He played a nice ragtime guitar, with Lawrence fiddling and doing the second vocal, while I blew the harp. Imagine Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Mississippi John Hurt.

[Mrleft8]

IBC Root beer for Bobby.... That changes the name to "Ima Beer Cat"......
And I stand corrected on the Red Oak RR ties. Seems they use them in some places after they soak 'em in creosote and other toxic goo for a long time. I know the old telegraph wires that ran along the tracks up here had to be made out of Black Locust. When they were taking them out, people would grab em up as fast as they could for firewood, or fence posts.

[David G]

Looks a bit like rootbeer too Bobby!

Looks delicious. Now THAT'S my kinda rootbeer.

[Mrleft8]

I used to have a Jack Teagarten/Al Hirt album with that song on it Chip..... I had a lot of people come into my dorm room at college that'd never heard that kind of music..... Good stuff.

[Mrleft8]

Looks delicious. Now THAT'S my kinda rootbeer.

It's really really good David.... You might be able to get it up by you.... Fart Bagg.....Er.... Ft. Bragg is just a couple hours south of the line....

[Mrleft8]

Wonder where Larry is....

[Mrleft8]

[Mrleft8]

[seanz]

Thanks bartender. I emailed the Elizabeth Cotten link to Mum (you may speel that Mom), she was most impressed. Mum's 60-mumble and going to guitar lessons.

[Mrleft8]

Good for her Seanz!
That's great!
Is she left handed? I never noticed before that Eliz Cotten plays left handed the way Jimi Hendrix did.

[Mrleft8]

Hey Bobby!
I was just going through some old records, receipts, and stuff.....Paperwork....And I noticed that you had an earthquake around this time last year too..... October 13, I think......
Is this getting to be a seasonal thing like tornadoes now?

[Glen Longino]

Looks like I'm late to the party!
Bobby? You asleep? I hope you are, amigo!
Lefty? Sean? Chip? David? Larry? JB? Amber? Kevin? Amber? Amber?
Well, I know where the Tequila is and the hard cheese and crusty bread.
Reckon I'll help myself.
Wish I had a quarter to play a whangy song on the jukebox, dangit!

[seanz]

Good for her Seanz!
That's great!
Is she left handed? I never noticed before that Eliz Cotten plays left handed the way Jimi Hendrix did.

I'm a righty and Mum is playing one of my old guitars.......now I think about it, my first guitar.

Cotten plays like Hendrix? I'd say she plays like Dick Dale, I think Hendrix restrung for a lefty.

'Course, I ain't the lefty expert around here.

[Chip-skiff]

Evening seanz & Glen. I'm doing a discography on "Old Rocking Chair."

Here's the original recording:



Here's the man who wrote it for Mildred Bailey:



Clapton played it too. But Harry's arrangement was the best I've heard. Very nice John Hurt-style guitar with wonderful chord changes and tone color.

You guys have a drink. I'll sit and mess with my guitar.

[David G]

Just back from pizza & beer with the usual suspects. For a nightcap, I think I'll take a couple of fingers of the darkest, stickiest rum you've got.

[Geno]

We had some tornadoes south of here today. I am terrified of them now. They killed three close personal friends, one classmate that we spent every minute with for two years, destroyed 30% of our town and missed us by mere yards in April.

Please wish bamagirl (my wife) luck. She was selected for an interview with the McNair Scholars program this week. A bigger deal we will probably not see. They pay all tuition and fees for the master's and the PhD degree as well as funding the student for a minimum of 15k stipend per year for five years. That stipend varies by school and how bad they want you - I have seen 50k per year for a stipend plus .5 pay of a full-time instructor if you wish to TA (about ten hours per week) for an average of 30k per year.

The dream we are working towards is to be employed by the same university (in a warm locale) - "I have to go see Dr. Randle", "which one?". lol

To be honest, if my 2500 clam car wasn't being pissy atm, I would not be looking forward to not living simply.

I'll have un mezcal por favor. I need to eat a worm for luck.