RealMarkDeneen

Web3 is Going Just Great --- https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ An amusing plow through catastrophe.

Back alley, Flagstaff, Arizona. Switching over to living humans!

@schu Great capture and pano! Where would that be? @speed That's tough to capture. Very cool. This pic....possibly driving a Chevrolet when.....

From the Anza-Borego S.P. Lots of sand!

The date is 11-27-19. I've never seen these in other parts of the country, but there are a lot of roadside memorials in my area. I think it's kind of sweet that people keep these things up for years. Some of them I have photographed in the past are very elaborate. Sand? Have I evre got sand. I'm in the middle of the desert. It's 115F today.

From the roadside a couple daya ago....

@subway Nice videos! It's rare for presenters to have these good qualities: clear speaker status with the point to be made good charts and graphics nice voice That comes together to make a very solid, informative presentation. A rare gift.

@SWL Thanks for the WB! Indeed, sleep is precious and under-rated sometimes. Good sleep, clean water, whole foods, low stress, and something useful to do everyday!

Not sure if it quite qualifies as vintage yet.... But, I am quite happy with the sound of the Carver TFM-35X. A couple things about it. It sounds a lot like a 1965 tube amp would sound if the tube amp had 300Watts. Second, it has a reasonable price that reflects a well made, nicely functioning amp. There's no "super premium $$$" added for a titanium 1" face plate, or unobtanium used for special wire inside. Bob don't need no nonsense, he let's his genius out in the circuits of very rational products. I like that aspect of it.

One more thing to comment on - - WATER or as they say in Maryland, Wudder. I was never a water drinker. As a kid and young adult I drank Milk. I never liked regular sugered sift drinks, but I did develope a very nasty monkey on my back with Diet Cola. I finally cut that out for good, and learned to love water (Thank the gods!). I'm not a guzzler still, but I do drink about 60 oz/per day now of goold old plain water. And, damed if I don't love it now. Regarding Stevia/Aspartame/etc. Dr. Lustig (UCSF scientist) says, "The moment artificial sweeteners hit the tongue - before you even swallow it - the tongue signals the release of insulin in a "Get ready! Here comes the sugar!" response.

Potassium I had a complete blood panel done in June and my potassium was 142 mmol/L. Smack dab in the middle of normal range. I don't currently take any supplements. So, I guess it is coming from my food. @SWL Man oh man! Great story. Good on you! @billybob Carbs are converted to glucose in an orderly process as needed. "Sugar" coming straight in sort of circumvents this normal process.

Well, I've had an awful lot of blood sugar tests and it never was a problem. I don't have these symptoms: extreme thirst or hunger feeling hungry even after a meal increased or frequent urination tingling sensations in hands or feet feeling more tired than usual frequent infections evidence of high blood sugar levels in blood work

I'm such a fan of rail car art, I will add one more from yesterday the "Chicken Head."

Turning around from picture above............

Taken last evening in Palm Springs.

To bad the videographer didn't give a little time to the art on the walls. From what I can see, some of it looks interesting and rather good. Nice to have such a big space. Never was that fortunate.

I'm still at 2 meals per day. I may be here for another couple weeks before switching to OMAD. Now, consider that I was eating 5 times a day, the 2/day has been a revelation. I eat a lot of fats at 4PM and then don't eat ANYTHIING until 10am next morning. The fats makes it very easy to go 18 hours with no hunger signals at all. And, I suspect I'm in ketosis for about 8 hours a day ( I have no test strips). At 10am, I eat all proteins eggs, meat. Carbs are maybe 20g per day - very low. Sugars = zero. Veg oil = zero. I feel great - much more "steady and even" that when I used to eat cracker-snacks a couple times a day and they all had that nasty vegetable oil. I've never had trouble like insulin resistance.

Well said! Trains evoke travel at a reasonable pace, along the countryside (unlike airplanes). The dreams of distant lands comes to mind. And then, there is the rhytmic rattle of the wheels on the steel. Brains love such patterns.

Weird, but I dig trains! I live a couple hundred yards from BNSFs busiest eastbound track out of the port of Los Angeles. Trains run all the time. I especially like the sound very late at night. I like environmental sound in general. This is one of my many Tascams.

I started my home recording journey with Tascam 4-Track cassette and a Virtualizer. I feel in love with the sound of analog cassette. It is so natural sounding! Anyway, I then moved into LogicPro X DAW with a zillion belles and whistles, and some of the magic disappeared. I'm kind of heading back toward cassette. @Racer X Well, All those guitars are replacements for Apple, Walmart, and Costco stock I was holding. There's only 2 that i regularly play. Just a few months ago I sold my precious Martin Joan Baez Special Edition 0-45 which was the Queen of the collection. I was afraid that i might drop it if I played it, which would ruin the MINT condition, and felt that keeping such a fabulous guitar out of playing hands was sinful. A guy wanted it to play, and he had the $$$$ to pay, off it went.

@DMH Isn't that a moving coil cartridge? Because your Tercel is not fitted with the "Cream" option which is a moving coil stepup transformer.

Ha ha... Well, I had guitars since I was 13, but usually just closet stuffers. I never gave it much time. I first took uop the ukulele back in 2015 and ran a couple large Uke groups for geezers for a couple years. We moved, and I lost my Uke group, so that was that. In 2019 I was laid up by a complicated knee replacement for months. Suddenly, I had the time, and felt the spirit move. So, I switched from ukes to guitar. So, I've really only been playing guitar for a few years. I play as an accompaniment, primarily. I don't pick & noodle. I also, invested quite heavily into vintage guitars as an inflation hedge and alternative to stocks. I play every day for at least an hour, and more often two. It led me to another hobby - home recording - and that has become a complex beast with DAWs and 4-track tape decks, and all sorts of manly stuff!

L'il Barney - a very weird and strange, possibly deranged dog.

@schu That Peru rail trip looks stunning! $3400/person.

WOW - the inside looks like I just built it yesterday! Good news, I don't see any blown parts. I can't even recall the DIP settings, but I will dig out the docs and check. What cart did you ever try this with?