Lunch: I'm in the office today, but I didn't bring much for lunch - just a packet of generic onion soup mix that I plan to put in my miniature rice cooker to flavor up some Basmati rice I have on hand. I am hoping it fits the bill.
Favorite video I watched this week.: is Joey Landreth Live at the Layman Drug Company, performing a song from '66 written by "The Invincible's" (though most people like the 1970 version of this tune better) Joey Landreth's version follows the 1979 version by Ry Cooder:
The Ry Cooder version is also very good.
G & L Related Topic for the day:
Personal Brand EvangelismI live up in Canada. Yesterday we had our provincial election and the race was pretty tight. We had three different parties to choose from, and our neighborhood has been inundated these past few days with representatives from each of the three parties knocking on doors and encouraging people to go out and vote in general, and to hopefully vote for the party they represent. To that end when the doorbell rang yet again, everyone in my family fled to the back of the house like cockroaches exiting a dark room when the light comes on. I was working from home in the basement, so I expected someone to answer the door, and by the third knock, I was a little annoyed with my family, and trudged upstairs to get the door.
We had had one of those short but crazy heavy cloudbursts earlier that morning. Our front street was flooded by about 20 inches of cold, Canada rain. My wife had to drive my eldest daughter to work, and wasn't sure the car could make it through the water. So I rolled up my jeans like Huck Finn, and grabbed the rake to clear out the gutter in front of my house which was clogged with wet autumnal foliage that at first was lifted by the water, floated for a bit, then charged the drain clogging it, and becoming a kind of slimy mess that wasn't going anywhere on it's on. So I proceeded to stand in the muck and rake, rake, rake. ten minutes of raking and I cleared the drain and brought the water level down to four or five inches so my wife could take my daughter through it.
I mention that because when I went back down to work, I just toweled off my feet, and went back to my computer and resumed work.
By the time the knock on the door came the rain-burst was a memory, but as I came to the top of the stairs I remembered that I had my pants up. We have several glass panes in the door, so the fellow who had been patiently waiting outside, could see me coming up, so I thought it would be bad form to turn around, and go change, then come back to answer the door. So I came out as I was, looking for all the world to be some kind of hick, lacking only a straw hat on my head, and a shoot of grass in my mouth.
Before I could even say hello, he said, "I like your guitars, I play bass."
I have a few guitars hanging in the living room that are visible from the window, and I suppose waiting out there for a while he happened to notice them.
Well, let me say that I liked the guy right away. I knew he was there to pitch for his party, and he knew that I knew that, so having made him wait - this was a great ice breaker. I immediately asked him what sort of music he played and what sort of equipment he was on. He had a few basses, but his favorite was a Fender. I immediately asked him what he knew about G & L basses and guitars. He knew the brand, and the relevant history, but hadn't played on one yet. So I suggested he try a JB2 - I have one and love it. I pointed him at a few others, and then apologized for answering the door with my pants rolled up to my knees. We laughed and then he pitched his pitch, and like a good person I thanked him for letting me know wished him success in his efforts.
Share with us if you will, the last time you evangelized in person to someone about G & L.
Three things true about me and one thing false:
I have an IQ of 154 last time I tested
I studied in school how to design computer chips, but ended up going into software
I flunked out of University
I am a volunteer fireman
Have a great lunch today!!
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