Month 7 of my diet. I lost another 5 pounds for a total of 69 pounds. I lost 1/2" off my waist for a total of 7 1/2"; 1/2" off my chest, 5" total; 1/4" off my arm, 3 1/2" total; 2" off my thigh, 6 1/2" total. Everything else is the same measurements. I'd like to have better results this month, so I'm going to kick it in the $@! a bit and see how it goes.

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Congrats, Paul. That is a great accomplishment. Keep it up, bro.

I just got confirmation for a registration to a clinic. Juno award winner Joey Landreth (of the Bros. Landreth) will be performing and talking slide guitar, and more. John Oates, Jimmie Vaughan, and Bonnie Raitt took notice of this successful band. I'm looking forward to what looks to be an interesting event later this month.

FSB

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watching Tucker

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

Thanks!

That sounds interesting. Is that basically him sharing techniques for you to pick up on?

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Joey will show his slide guitar approach, guitar and solo vocal arrangements, and background vocals arranging. His guitar rig and his getting a good sound will be discussed. We'll also be treated to a performance of Joey's new and older material. Best of all it's free courtesy of L&M.

FSB

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Laundry. A highlight of my day, always.

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Just made some beef with noodles stir fry and orange ginger rice. I also looked up and saw stir fry was written 'store fry' from the crazy auto correction that I'm debating about whether or not to give it the boot. Whoo Hoo! It didn't spell 'Das Boot' or 'boat'.
FSB

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I jammed with the violin bass for an hour and now I'm going to go for a walk.

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Sounds pretty good. I had Chinese last night, but I let the Chinese restaurant make it. Those guys are my second kitchen. I can make a lot of that stuff, but I just haven't really been arsed to do so, as they say across the pond.

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When I first got married I complained about the local Chinese food because Sweet and Sour and Pineapple Sweet and Sour was the same sauce with pineapple chunks. To me that's a cop out having come from the coast. Even there they do the same, but not always.

So, I shopped and worked about 12 hours overnight into the late morning and made a 10 course meal from barbecued pork hanging in the oven to most of the classic dishes from scratch. The family was given short notice for dinner. Even the nephew who hated Chinese ate it, having seconds.

Nowadays, most of the time I only cook it when my wife suggests or buys the ingredients prompting me to have little choice and I give in.
FSB

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The restaurant I go to does everything pretty good and they have a good size menu. I think at one point, I pretty much tried everything on the menu, having certain favorites I'll get more than others. I guess lately we just haven't felt like cooking as much, and sometimes we have other things going on with doing music stuff, and all so it's a lot more convenient to just give them a call and pick it up. We've done so much business with them that they know us on first name basis, or recognize our voices on the phone when we call. They are also not much more expensive than buying groceries around here, anyway. Especially, when you also factor in the time it takes to shop, prep, cook, and clean up everything.

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I hear ya, Paul. I usually have a rapport with family owned Chinese restaurants, and I've gotten to know many of those families well. As a teenager we used to hang with the son of a well known tourist Restaurant in Chinatown. Friday nights we'd go to the back door and get a Kentucky Fried bucket filled with shrimp and back for refills after cruising the city. I've had a large going away party with a special menu including now outlawed shark fin soup, large whole fish and crabs, and was invited to a limited New Year's gathering at the table of owners of a restaurant where the owners dressed in traditional garb and prepared and explained the food. I also worked with a Chinese manager whose father owned a restaurant. He took to me for some reason and wanted to prepare a rare birdsnest soup especially for me as it isn't done often (except for fake copies). I don't know if you know what that is; but, the real McCoy is expensive and an honour to get. Chinese rapel down cliffs to caves and gather endangered bird (Swiftlet) saliva to make a soup for long healthy youthful life. It's considered Asian caviar. Unfortunately, I passed on the offer disappointing the gift presenter before I knew of the honour bestowed. And you are right that pickup can be good indeed. It always amazes me when I see a Chinese restaurant just about anywhere . . . even far from the maddening crowd in the toolies.
FSB

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Your situation kind of reminds me of when I lived in Florida, but instead of Chinese, I knew a lot of Lao, Thai, Vietnamese, and Filipino people at various times over the years, mainly the Lao, which I've reconnected with on Facebook. You see when you meet one Lao, you'll eventually meet 50 and party a lot. Unfortunately, there isn't any sort of Asian markets around here, although oddly enough, 3 Thai restaurants. I'm use to having homemade cooking, though. Most of the time you'd be over someone's house and it will be a communal thing where everyone brings something, usually booze, and whatever food they have prepared. Sometimes, they'd have big parties in a community center and have bands play. I've played at a few Lao parties, myself. I might not have understood the language of the songs being sung, but an "A" chord is an "A" chord, no matter where you live in the world.

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Very cool, Paul. I know that must have been fun to play for and amongst Filipino as they seem to be born entertainers. There is the largest Filipino community here in Canada and I agree about community gatherings and how if you know one you'll meet them all per se. I also did some educational Canadian customs introduction videos in four languages when the Vietnamese boat people arrived here way back when. Love that food too. I've never met Lao or Thai, but there's a cool Thai restaurant down the street. Anyhoo, enjoy those Asian meals when you can, Paul, A? I mean, eh?
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I'm off to the Java pot to start the day.

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I went for a walk in what Canadians would call balmy weather, with 13 degrees with a wind chill of -6 degrees and up to 35 mile gusts outside. At least it wasn't snowing. I missed the 54 degrees of last week, that's for sure. I think it's just some freak thing, since usually March isn't typically that cold down here. It has snowed before, though, but that can happen in the early 30's temperature.

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