The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
Walnut Creek, California
Joined myLot 9 years ago
I am a native Midwesterner living in California. I am a psychologist by trade, but my main passions are music and things that make music.
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 May
I'll be walking to the BART station in a few minutes. BART will take me to Oakland, where a tram will take me the airport. From there I will fly to Chicago, where a rental car awaits me.
Wheee! I'll see some people I have not...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 May
Rockridge is a "yuppie" neighborhood in Oakland, close to Berkeley. I can only imagine what it would be like to operate a stereo or guitar store there.
The neighborhood I worked in in Oakland was way worse than this one. Why is...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 May
For some reason, I was musing about how much fun it would be to have a long conversation with Bruce Cockburn this morning. Some of you may not have heard of him, but he is one of my favorite musicians.
He is still alive, and...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 May
I used some "key words" in recent MyLot posts, like STEREO SPEAKERS and VINTAGE GUITARS. I got a bunch of ads for eBay, vintage guitars, etc, and I was happy.
I also mentioned something like HOT EUROPEAN WOMEN and got to see...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 May
I actually reached my Totally Aggressive MyLot Goal (TAMG) last month. I exceeded my T&A goal by more than 100 pennies! I think I did it through a combination of cereal posting and sheer force of will. Reading Nietzsche really...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 May
Many of us are a bit "older." But that means we grew up in the "golden age" of rock music. We could choose between bands like the Allman Brothers, Jethro Tull, Lynard Skynard, Yes, ELP, The Eagles, and many others.
Some of us are...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
14 May
I'll be heading to Chicago this weekend. It's a High School reunion, but I'm really focused on getting a corned beef sandwich at Morrie's Deli on 57the Street on the South Side, where I grew up.
It will be interesting to see...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 May
Please don't tell anybody this. Let it be our little secret, to quote the great Scarr, from Lion King:
A lot of stereo (and mono) components from the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the Sherwood S-7100A receiver, Marantz...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 May
I have been following the first Trump criminal trial fairly closely. It's about falsifying documents to pay off Stormy Daniels not to talk about her (I believe) 2006 "romantic" encounter with Donald Trump. Trump was instructing...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
13 May
Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners used to be dependable, at least in my experience. But the last two Dirt Devil vacuum cleaners I have bought lasted about 6-months each.
Yesterday, I decided to give Dirt Devil one more shot. I bought...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 May
I see my first corn "stalk" poking through today in my balcony garden. And I have two sunflowers at about 5" each now. No green beans yet.
The sunflowers were lying down yesterday afternoon when I forgot to water them in the...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
12 May
I am on my second cup of coffee and chilling to some Sunday sacred music. The program is called "A Joyful Noise" and it's on KDFC, the only remaining classical radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's a public radio...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 May
I just read an article from a local news source. Yeppers, folks could see the Northern Lights in the Bay Area last night. Maybe I'll go out searching for them tonight.
The last time I saw the Northern lights was (I think) here...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 May
It's only 9:30 AM here and it already feels warm out. I see sunshine. Will I visit the pool with a book after Guitar Center? Inquiring minds want to know.
I had my usual egg, bacon and coffee breakfast this morning. Now I am...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
11 May
Solar activity is high right now, and the Northern and Southern Lights can be seen in many areas of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
I read one comment from Arizona, saying they could see them tonight. Arizona is pretty...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 May
Gas prices have fluctuated rather wildly over the past couple of years here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I think they dropped to a low of about $4.19/gallon a year or so ago at my "discount" gas station, but then rose to $5.69 a...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 May
What an odd story. When I was in grade school, and even high school, we would sometimes let someone have "butts," or "back butts," in lunch line. I think some kids call them "cuts."
This fella felt someone had "cut him" in line,...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
9 May
I think his mom told me had has been diagnosed with ADHD. I admit that I sometimes think that the ADHD diagnosis simply means "being a boy." But I do get it.
This young fella can be pretty "random" at times, but one he gets...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
9 May
I don't like to b*tch and moan, but sometimes a fella just has to vent.
I wrote this song "for" someone I helped out a bunch. She pretended to be my "friend," but ultimately it turned out she was just exploiting me. It was NOT a...
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The Horse
@TheHorse (207500)
• Walnut Creek, California
9 May
I was able to capture my good friend Alee's attention yesterday by getting her to practice her scales with both hands, but a third apart. What the heck does that mean? If she plays a C-scale, C-D-E-F-G-A-B-C, with her left hand,...
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