Sunday, December 2, 2012

Kickin' Out the Jams in Greece

So you're saying it's been too heavy lately, huh.  Well, how about some chopped octopus bits in a can.  Don't think for one minute that I'm kidding as you can get that in many markets.

Oh, and you see the sliced white bread in the market too.  Do not even think about buying it because it's horrible.  It's baked here so it's Greek bread but it's still horrible.  The bread that's baked in a traditional Greek style is much, much better but get yourself a good bread knife as it's crusty.  The taste and texture are a whole lot better than the pre-sliced white bread.

How to save the leftovers from that boring meal from the other night:  stir in a tablespoon of curry paste and microwave.  Stir in a few spoons of sliced jalapenos.  Now it's something that will make your hair stand up a little bit, assuming optimistically that you have any.  That worked surprisingly well and I'm eating it now.

The arithmetic on the dentist is straight-forward.  It costs eight euros a day for cigarettes so that's €240 a month.  Quit smoking and the dentist is paid in a year.  I don't have €240 to spare in a month anyway but the arithmetic is clear.

My mouth to my dentist is like a rusty old car in a field to automotive restoration specialist.  Mary said she's had one filling in her life so imagine how boring that is for a dentist.  In my case, I bring her a whole textbook full of problems!

(Ed:  fascinating, what's the story on the guitar?)

The Boss RC-50 looper is working well and has maybe fifteen songs that I'll keep.  The sound through the computer is horrible so that may mean a small amplifier (i.e. maybe a hundred or so euros) but I've blown up almost every amplifier I ever had so that might be wasting the money.  However, the sound I'm producing is created in the Boss GT-100 and not by over-driving the amplifier so it's quite possible that it wouldn't blow.  The speakers on the computer are maybe eight or ten centimeters and the only way you're going to get any sound that pops at all is by pushing some air.  If that ain't true, tell me why you never saw a Bose system in a concert.

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