Kind of a slow day but I managed to dye and slap a sealer coat of shellac on the front of the body.
Looks ok, there are a few issues I cant really fix. I hope a bunch of shellac will help the look.

I've been playing my new Strat a lot and I broke a string this afternoon so I put on a new set and I'm back in business.

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Marky

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That’s always fun, Paul. I know you and Jenn had a great time and I’m sure they did too.

Yesterday, I began the task of shredding and throwing away thirty years of paperwork (most of which I collected before PCs became popular).

It all had to do with my career at two TV stations, one TV AM/FM station, and some freelance. Everything from scripts, to technical papers, to draftings of big setups, to concepts and related and so on. Mostly variety programming from music, to dramas, parades, and how to. Throw in some amateur, college, and pro sports, and informational coverage. Well, that’s most of it. I hauled it with me when I moved for reference should the need occur. The paperwork filled cabinets, several brief cases, and a few boxes.

I co-produced and directed a Canadian syndicated test series with Claster Production out of Boston and it was called Bowling For Dollars. The American version even ran in Madison Square Gardens and LA; but, theirs was 10 pin while in Canada we developed a 5 pin version which gathered a lot of fans from University to whole towns. I ran across the supplied book with rules, dialogue, drawings, and photo that details all the exact requirements that each city follows. Government and PBA gaming rules apply.

I also had proposals and scripts complete with rudimentary special effects for space sets that I designed. I then found a folder complete with contacts and sponsors, a series of automotive shows that discussed race cars, as well as custom and vintage automobiles. All this before those that air today. The station passed thinking there wasn’t enough interest when others weren’t doing it. Boy! Did they miss the boat.
I discovered trade contacts that I’d lost. They included an LA stage producer that we hired, and an underwater cameraman both from California.

When I look back at it all, I’m blown away by all the ground work involved, and how it was done without more staff, and, for the most part, without a mobile phone and computer for research (micro film, the library, film and video in those days). A heap of work that I think deserved more pay when smart work or less work often gives more pay today. These days all that paper could have been built, retrieved, or shared on a drive, or the Cloud. Major or minor changes? Easy peasy. Who would have guessed?

I know others here are still finding a grind to be the case even with the progress made. Hey! Starving artists who love their job come in many forms. It’s all about the art. As long as you don’t cut your ear off. you’re good to go.
As it wraps up, I no longer have need for my collection, and the final curtain on my past career is down for good, except for memories and with the odd get together. I can now say that I’m completely retired.
Next chapter: Out go the University, Management, and outdated computer books.

Next chapter after that: Out go the personal books and magazines. Well . . . some of them. Certainly not the music books.
FSB

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wow FSB Sounds like a great time and a very sad one all at once.

I just went though years of sailing manuals and books. that dream has run it's course as this year we made the switch to powerboating. no longer need all the literature on sailing so time to donate it to the local 1/2 price books so some other person can get the bug and hopefully find some use for at least a couple of the books.

yeah now days everything is on youtube, but it is still nice sometimes to feel the heft of a real book

I have one really good sailing book showing a variety of sailboats including racers from large to small and showing different rigging. Then I have one very old turn of the 19th/20th century book that merchant mariners would have used with a fold out sheet (see how I threw in that nautical term) haha. It is British and the fold out sheet had been folded so many times it unfortunately had a tear along the seam, but it still is in one piece and gives a drawing on how to setup a square rigger. Then there are some chapters on antiquated instruments of the day and how to use them. Not much for land lubbers though.

Congrats on the power boat move. Both have their pluses and minuses and that includes maintenance and cost, one of the finer details of boating. The ketch I sailed on had a teak deck that required care, but I miss that more than the past career. As a kid, at the age of six, I got to steer a cruiser with my father, learned how to sail at eight with a lightning, and wanted an unlimited hydroplane after taking in the Seafair races in Seattle. My boats are now in the tub.
Have many good times on the water avenger79.

FSB

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Are you still using stock 9 gauge on the Strat, Marky? That’s a nice guitar. Enjoy.
FSB

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That job you did looks good Eric. Once you shellac it, the axe will take on a character of it’s own. It’ll be just fine. You’ll have the satisfaction of having made it your own, and that’s where it will shine.
FSB

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Thanks, FSB. A spare set of 9's came with the guitar so that's what I put on. I think I'll go to 10's next time.

I just read your post on getting rid of your collection of papers from your old career. It must have been a bittersweet moment but, IMO, it's always good to move on and live in the moment and that's pretty darn good for you my friend.

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Marky

Remember the music is not in the guitar

youtubing, better than TV lately

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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.

That sounds like you had a large project to deal with, going through all of that stuff. I suppose it's best to try and do that every once in while, although it's tough to do so, because you can get sentimental attachments to things, or the memories that are attached to them.

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It's strange, I really didn't do much of anything today, other than go for a brief walk, yet the day went by really fast. Sometimes, that happens.

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sounds fantastic, good to know others here have sailed. it was one of those lifelong dreams of mine, finally made it a reality. sailed a 16 footer in FL, then moved up to WI and got a 20 ft O'Day. next was sailing with a friend on his 23 then got to crew on a 36 then a 44. taking the helm on the 44 was fun and at the same time almost anticlimatic. so much electronics and auto features it almost took away the fun of sailing.
did get to helm a ketch up in Door County, took my
the motor is a 20 footer, fun to "point and shoot" when you're on the water. definitely makes life easier. (and the girlfriend happier)

That’s great. Lots of experience there, avenger79. Two real cool things about boats is that whether the boat is large or small, new or old, they have a community that appreciates what each other has and they are fun in their own way even for those who tend to be dockside, fair weather, or weekend sailors. I get the power boat/girlfriend connection. Hahaha.

It took twenty years of marriage with talking about boats before I moved back to the coast. We got a day invite to go sailing with a couple whom I had just met through my wife’s work. We were asked to make a trip amongst the islands. I wasn’t sure how the prairie girl Mrs. FSB would be as she had never sailed before. She and her girlfriend went below decks, and the fella went to the biffy leaving me to run the 30 footer. (I get ya with all the automated gear. There are times though, especially with the crewing or lack off where it comes in handy. I’ve seen some older folk like me that have managed to keep boating because of it. Old school is über cool though.) IMHO.

When the group did return on upper deck after some bubbly he said, “Nice for me (him) to not have to do all the work because usually we take others out who have no or little experience. How about seeing how this baby can sail?” Well, he taught sailing, and the old school 95’ ketch I had crewed for years was now listed as a tall ship. Pretty good matchup. Surprisingly, with a smile on her face and a hand in the water as the boat heeled over, Mrs. FSB loved sailing.

I was ready to move to living on a boat full time. That was the second time I attempted that. The first right out of school. It was also the second time I didn’t get my way. I gave up the idea. But. I still like boats.

FSB

That ketch I mentioned, now in Nova Scotia, sailed a race to Hawaii from Vancouver Island. Now that’s a trip that I missed.

Cheers!
FSB

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awesome. sounds like a fantastic boat.

I don't mind the power but it is very different. I love the quiet of sailing and feeling like you are harnessing nature I guess.
the heeling was the part that the girlfriend did not like.

living aboard was the eventual dream, went as far as shopping for boats in FL last winter but I could tell she wasn't really into it, so that dream has gone. '

figured it was easier to change boat styles then it would be to change girls. tough to find one willing to put up with me.

Crappy weather today, so I don't know what I'm going to be doing. Other than Sunday, we're supposed to get a lot of rain, which means I won't be able to go out for a walk too much, but there's always other things to do, and I do have music and a few basses and guitars at my disposal.

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