That Seedy Table In The Dark Corner Where The Reprobates Gather

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I've never had any skill with the damn things, so I got drunk and took it on a halfpipe :facepalm:
it did not go well.
no serious injury though
 
Peeker said:
I've never had any skill with the damn things, so I got drunk and took it on a halfpipe :facepalm:
it did not go well.
no serious injury though
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I can't skate a half pipe after even one beer!

Yea, I grew up in the first phase of "radical" sports... I remember the transition from clay wheels on plywood skateboards to modern, the change from clunky Schwinn Stingray bicycles to Redline BMX, the change from short travel to long travel suspension on dirt bikes, I remember the clamp on roller skates with metal wheels, and now we have inline skates, which I can also skate in a half pipe...

It was pretty cool growing up in Socal in the early days... I remember when I was 14, and I talked a bunch of neighbor kids into helping me rip off a bunch of plywood from a jobsite around the block... We simply walked around the block at like 6 AM on a Sunday morning, took the chain link gate off the hinges, and carried back about 10 sheets of 1/2 inch plywood between about six of us... Then, we proceeded to build a sloping runway to a 12 foot high vert ramp... It was just the 4 foot width of the plywood... We had no idea what we were doing, but we pulled it off...

So, did my mom ask where the wood came from? Nope... She never asked questions! However, after every kid in town started hanging around in my backyard, she got stressed, and told me I had to take it down... I got pissed off and hatcheted it down, and lit it on fire... :) I was a very well adjusted kid...
 
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Happy Wednesday! Can you say 97% humidity? :eek:

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Yuck... I can't believe I am actually going to Pragestock in West Virginia in July... I imagine it will be really fucking humid, as it has been in every other state on the east coast I have ever visited... At 5200 feet, our humidity is usually around 15%...
 
It's quite variable here. 15% all winter and 60% all summer. :lol:
97% is unusual. I think there's rain coming today or tomorrow.
We have a big system coming that's supposed to dump 4" of rain on us next week. That may just be enough to officially end the drought.

EG
 
I'm popular this week. First, I interviewed with one manufacturer, now I get a call from a headhunter working for another who wants to talk. :messedup:

EG
 
I used to skate A LOT. Then my best friend (at the time) that I started skating with became #1 in the world in the mid 90's and still skates and announces. Fuck that asshole.

:)

Naw, actually we're still friends, I'm just completely jealous of his life over the past 25 years.
 
I know you know, jello. :embarrassed:
Just trying to decide if time on the road is worth the $$$$
Evenings in hotel rooms would give me a lot of time to practice, however. :grin:


Heel, he's jealous of your life, too. :lol:

EG
 
Don't be too disappointed with Wilbury, jello. It did turn out to be more of a repository for people's junk, though. :messedup:

The digitech was kinda fun but didn't sound all that great. The Vox wah pedal is probably the best piece in there.

EG
 
Elias Graves said:
Don't be too disappointed with Wilbury, jello. It did turn out to be more of a repository for people's junk, though. :messedup:
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Yeah, I always assume that's the way it is when it gets back to square 1. I try to give more/better stuff than I take, and resist the urge to load it with a bunch of shit pickups, etc., that I don't want.
 
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