What did you do today?

Dana said:
I run avgas in all my small engines.
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Worst case you foul a plug. Wire brush and fire it up. Prevents the carb from getting full of varnish and the rubbers last longer.

I don't do it cuz I'm lazy and a glutton for punishment. I've never put stabil in the exmark zero turn and have always used Ethanol pump gas. Somehow have never had to do anything to the carb. But the ethanol absolutely eats the primer balls on everything 2 stroke I own.
 
Half Fast said:
Yesterday I received the final component for my guitar pedalboard, so today I finished putting the whole thing together.

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It's centered around a Boss MS-3 combination switcher and multi-fx. The MS-3 not only handles switching and routing of my external boxes, it contains 112 internal effects (distortions, delays, reverbs, etc., etc.), plus it has a MIDI interface that controls the IR-200 amp modeler.

Lots more capability and flexibility than my old rig, and easier to use, too.
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Just add chops—makes its own sauce! It used to be said that “the tone comes from your hands.” Now I guess it comes from your feet.

I meant to reply when you posted this but anyway, nice, well-organized rig you got there. If you were to connect, say, a guitar to it, and add a few ideas, the A&R guys will be knocking on your door.

Apropos the thread, this is what I did today. Tomorrow I seize control of the known universe, or maybe just sleep ‘till noon and then procrastinate.
 
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Roger Wilco said:
I meant to reply when you posted this but anyway, nice, well-organized rig you got there. If you were to connect, say, a guitar to it, and add a few ideas, the A&R guys will be knocking on your door
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This morning I plugged a 2013 Les Paul Standard into it. First time using the new board in church. The MS-3 is terrific. Changes that used to require doing a Fred Astaire impersonation now only need a single tap. One song required thick reverb and complex parallel delays on a soft verse, but then less reverb and no delay on the chorus. I set up the expression pedal to dial back the reverb and to act as a switch for the delay, so I just rocked back a little on the pedal and *presto-changeo* I was there.

It’s going to take months to figure out all that little box can do.

Next step will probably be to replace the small graphic EQ with a Boss EQ-200 and control it via MIDI.
 
Half Fast said:
This morning I plugged a 2013 Les Paul Standard into it. First time using the new board in church. The MS-3 is terrific. Changes that used to require doing a Fred Astaire impersonation now only need a single tap. One song required thick reverb and complex parallel delays on a soft verse, but then less reverb and no delay on the chorus. I set up the expression pedal to dial back the reverb and to act as a switch for the delay, so I just rocked back a little on the pedal and *presto-changeo* I was there.

It’s going to take months to figure out all that little box can do.

Next step will probably be to replace the small graphic EQ with a Boss EQ-200 and control it via MIDI.
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Really cool setup! I still have and use my DS1 that I bought back in 96 in London (original box too). Somewhat of a rarity as it is made in Japan.
 
Half Fast said:
I play jailhouse guitar: behind a few bars, looking for the key. The only requests I get are to stop.
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Don't fret: with that new rig, you're sure to strike a chord with the congregation. Once you find the key, just make sure to come in at the right time.
 
Roger Wilco said:
Don't fret: with that new rig, you're sure to strike a chord with the congregation. Once you find the key, just make sure to come in at the right time.
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Don’t string him along. He just needs to bridge the gap from where he is to where he needs to be. Otherwise he’s just creating a bottleneck where other musicians could slide in.
 
MauleSkinner said:
If we don’t keep this discussion amped up, it made move on to orchestral instruments and f-holes. I can’t deal with that kind of violins.
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I'm afraid that if we move on to orchestral instruments, we'll end up with both sax and violins, thereby hitting a sour note with the admins.
 
Picked up 160 shipping cartons for Operation Christmas Child and dropped them off at church. It's shoebox season once again.
 
Bob Noel said:
now I'm curious what the terminology problem is. I'm not a geologist, just someone that is interested in pretty much everything technical.

of course, we could have fun with "terminology" (in a undergrad course I took many many many years ago, the professor hated words like "methodology" )
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The use of the term "interdune". People have been using it for both surfaces that form when one sand dune migrates over another and for deposits between dunes. A surface and a deposit form very differently. I recommended stopping using the term "interdune" for those surfaces.
 
Picked up the plane from annual/condition inspection. Glad I remembered how to fly
 
judypilot said:
The use of the term "interdune". People have been using it for both surfaces that form when one sand dune migrates over another and for deposits between dunes. A surface and a deposit form very differently. I recommended stopping using the term "interdune" for those surfaces.
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that makes sense even to me.

Did you suggest terms that would be appropriate?
 
Concluded the last big loop of my Fly Minnesota passport stamp hunt. Logged 18.1 hours in the Fisher biplane beginning sunrise Sunday and ending midday today. Intended to finish yesterday, but had a setback Monday morning: I killed my LiFePO4 battery attempting an un-preheated cold start in 28°F weather in Roseau, cost myself about four hours before I got airborne with a new AGM motorcycle battery.

I've got the requisite 130 airports, so I could mail in my junk and collect the leather jacket, but I want to get KMSP as my crown jewel. Going to split the costs with a few friends in a 182, hopefully soon.

Fuel system/ferry tank thing worked well. Lots of desolate land up north. Got kind of nervous flying over endless swamps and pines in an aeroplane with a glide ratio "only slightly worse than that of a grand piano," to steal an expression from some forum guy describing a Stearman.

Obligatory "Remer? I hardly know her!"
 

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ColinD said:
Concluded the last big loop of my Fly Minnesota passport stamp hunt. Logged 18.1 hours in the Fisher biplane beginning sunrise Sunday and ending midday today. Intended to finish yesterday, but had a setback Monday morning: I killed my LiFePO4 battery attempting an un-preheated cold start in 28°F weather in Roseau, cost myself about four hours before I got airborne with a new AGM motorcycle battery.

I've got the requisite 130 airports, so I could mail in my junk and collect the leather jacket, but I want to get KMSP as my crown jewel. Going to split the costs with a few friends in a 182, hopefully soon.

Fuel system/ferry tank thing worked well. Lots of desolate land up north. Got kind of nervous flying over endless swamps and pines in an aeroplane with a glide ratio "only slightly worse than that of a grand piano," to steal an expression from some forum guy describing a Stearman.

Obligatory "Remer? I hardly know her!"
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Too cool. Well done. I think the most i ever hit in a single trip was 5 lol.
 
Cool indeed... my lower limit for open cockpit flying is 40°, and that's a short flight! :biggrin:
 
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