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Yesterday I posted a silly animation..

For a little follow up..

Well, the folks at Wellcat.com, who created this day, want you to race your mouse around the icons on your screen. They suggest you do so while waiting for "whatever it is you're waiting for to come up on the screen".

This mouse should have done more running and less singing

Thanks to http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/August/raceyourmouse.htm for this interesting information.

Tube amps. Last week on Craiglist I had an opportunity to make a trade for this tube amp that was retubed and rebuilt.

The amp came with a vintage Fender 12" speaker and a built cab. Once I got this home I plugged in my Gibson DC with p-90's. Man did the guitar sing like a charm. It was very simple with a drive circuit to run an additional pre amp through the circuit. I would guess this amp runs some where around 8-10 watts full power. A little more powerful than my 5 watt amp, but not close to the 18 watt I had. I took a few days to play around before making my recordings.

Basically this amp is very similar to the Hammond Organ Tube Amps, although not an organ amp, but very similar in structure. This amp was originally built in 56 (54 years old at the time of writing)

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http://www.lentilfest.com/

Our area of eastern Washington and northern Idaho, the Palouse Region, grows a third of the lentils in the United States. Since 1989, the National Lentil Festival has celebrated this wonderful little legume that is consumed by people all over the world.

If you go, send me pics!

Yes, I almost forgot that today is Bratwurst Festival. To bad the Brat is sitting in a closet somewhere between Italian and Chorizo!

Noting like beer brats with onions to make your day go better!

It was a year ago we were all buzzing about entering KOTB 2009. Well 2009 is gone, and 2010's KOTB is almost over also. Again, GC, I wonder what if any the buzz is on the internets about who will win this year. Not sure that a slide player should ever take it, but then again, maybe they should.

I am trying to get a collection started of KOTB 2009 - 2010 videos to post my own comments about... There are certainly some very funny videos out there!

Well, it's Friday again. Seems like we go through this about every week or so. Just keeps coming around. Can't seem to figure out why we are all so happy about Friday. Well, if you don't like this one, you can wait for the next...

okay, not really, but how dumb do they think that we are. I have several E-Mail addresses that re-direct to the same box, so when I get 3 emails at the same time from three different people with the same body, I chuckle..

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Someone once told me if you entered the term google in google.com search engine

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times the internet would shut down..

Would you try that for me...