NobodySock said:
This is the question many people ask, and the answer is quite simple when you realize what our refineries in America are built for. The oil that we harvest from our ground is the suite light crude, and not the heavy crude that we import from all over, all of our refineries are designed to refine the heavy crude not the light and for this reason alone is why we are stuck with the prices we are.
I am sure Alberta crude can elaborate on this fact
This is the question many people ask, and the answer is quite simple when you realize what our refineries in America are built for. The oil that we harvest from our ground is the suite light crude, and not the heavy crude that we import from all over, all of our refineries are designed to refine the heavy crude not the light and for this reason alone is why we are stuck with the prices we are.
The lack of enforcement of the bike regulations where I live has been a blessing for me in that. I have a totally illegal E bike for writing the streets and pathways as it is too big with power and I can go almost 40 mph on mine, but it is the most comfortable ride in the world and such a fun thing to ride and it’s on its way to Sardinia where out here the regulations or lack as well but it will just take a few few more kids getting themselves killed on these things for America to tighten up the enforcement. These Chinese manufacturers are getting better and better with her product and mine is probably the best Chinese E bike made for the money and they are called Freesky. I have the Alaska model which separates from the regular models and that it has two batteries to give me longer rides, but the Chinese have built into the controller, passwords of ass sort that open up the controller to allow maximum speed you have to physically punch in a code before you go on your ride so they maintain their legitimacy in America I guess.
You want to know where gas is really expensive? I just acquired my landlord‘s 2021 troc Cabriolet convertible. And had just started getting into the red line of empty and I pulled over to fill it up with an €80 bill. It is almost 2 euros per liter in Sardinia.
Very nice, and your narration could double as ASMR
I had no voice as the last two days prior to the flight. I was a frantic mess trying to get two weeks worth of tasks completed in only two days, and I was constantly screaming to the world to the point of laryngitis the voice seems to have come back finally and so as the passing of this jet lag.
Very nice! So you've made the move. Any issues with getting the dogs in without quarantine?
I was prepared as a boy scout to pass muster for the multiple requirements. These airlines have transporting pets. They were in those crates for 19 hours straight and I did not sleep a wink during the whole flight and when I was able to see them again at baggage claim in cagliari I rushed to them, with tears of joy to see that they were alive and alert and ready to take a major dump and piss. The one thing Italy worries about with pets coming to their country is rabies and that’s all there was no quarantine the airport personnel were just as excited to get them out of those crates as I was, they saw the emotion and Italians are all about emotion. I am home.
and welcome to your new homeland, dont overdose on Fregola
I find it quite tasty but will heed your words of warning from a man who surely knows the dangers of overindulging Israeli couscous . So much to learn in this new Old Mediterranean world.
Let it be known there’s no place on this earth to hide from the new coffee room. We know where you are at all times. Keep your head down Bach. I personally think of you first whenever I hear a potential violence in your homeland.
This flaming liberal still believes in the death penalty, but not the current United States method of years and years of stays and appeals that are just throwing good money down the toilet, good taxpayer money. Tighten up that time span and do what needs to be done when there’s no shadow of a doubt the guilt.
if i had known a lamp askew would draw more attention than this man eating piano, I would have straightened it but that would mean getting dangerously close to its jaws. Ever have a 9 foot piano lid come down on you and start going chomp chomp chomp? I hope the sea voyage calms him. If it doesn't Sardinia certainly will.
I had some intuition about who this man was. I was 100 percent right after I met him. He had 5 9 footers in a huge living room, including a newer Baldwin , i think1996. When i asked about that one, he said that one is his. haha. There was a Estonia 1997 I believe and I sat at that for a while after the baldwin and immediately, said to myself, decent furniture. This was before Dr. Laul (sp?) came in and turned Estonia around. When I was looking over his Baldwin I noticed his had these huge brass double wheel castors on the legs but mine had tiny original casters that didn't look encouraging for when I need to move it around. I had asked if I could throw some brasso on them to shine them up and he insisted do NOT do that to theml. It would gum up their turning ability. As we moved over to the Estonia a bit later he motioned over to a table that had 3 more of these huge castors. He said I could have them. This, after he had just got done telling me that they cost $1500 each. He just gave over $4500 of gear to me! This man is not in it for the profit, he is in it for the love of what he does. And the results of his regulation, voicing work done to my piano made it sublime. everything in perfect order. No squeaks or buzzes anywhere. And when I hit a low octave C forcefully and held it, it was 1 minute before the sound stopped.
@Mik said in Sardinia, we're bringing a unicorn:
Congrats!!! That piano was made in Cincinnati while my dad was their advertising director, so it’s a family connection for me.
i had asked you in my piano thread if you recalled the Cincinnati factory. I guess so!
Wait till my Sardinian neighbors get a load of a real pianoforte. Made in America baby! 1966 SD-10. A piano made right in the middle of their best work, with Bechstein builders to help, they retired the SD-06 and collaborated together to make a Baldstein, like a Frankenstein. Every where I read or view, if any of them talk about having a go on one of these mid 60's sd-10's, they stop and quickly state best fucking grand piano in the world Fuckin A. Mint , beautiful case, thickest ribs I ever saw. biggest soundboard I ever saw. I got to be careful with pictures because he thinks he's fat and doesn't want it to show , so I have to get the angles right, cuz he's bearin a load behind that music desk, lol. 9 fucking feet!!! Go big or go to your grave.
A piano worth well over 100,000. well over, but with the perception problem and no demand for them I guess. I paid him what he wanted $17,500, and now I am going to pay his mover to take it from there and to my container and wrap it up good and tight for a long voyage. I kid you all not. This piano will step into the ring right now against any heavyweight. The seller is an older Iranian who lived in Germany for 30 years making Bechsteins. He lives in a semi mansion on top of the hill looking over Laguna Beach,
on the move side, there is a way for me to extricate myself from all things California, so as to not have to continue to pay state taxes there for the rest of my life though I am living in Italy. California is known as a "sticky" state, and there are certain things one must show as proof that you have moved out of California into another state. The whole living in Italy does not meet this requirement. So, since I have friends and family in the state right next door, Nevada, where there is no state tax, I have already gained permission from one of these friends, to use his address as my new home address in the states. I also need to drive over there and apply for a Nevada drivers license. I need to register to vote in the state of nevada. I need to open up a local bank account with a local bank there. I need to take myself off of all things associated with california. If I can accomplish all this in my short time span here, I can permanently avoid state taxes for life. And all of this is legal and on the up and up. Renting out my home here in California actually helps bolster their belief I have moved away as I now have no home I can return to in California while it;s being rented out. Of course California will still tax my income from this rental but that can be offset greatly with write offs.
oh to own a satin ebony piano will be a glorious day. I am so tired of shiny polyester finishes it could be a deal breaker if I found a piano with it and had everything else I wanted in a piano.
Mine is not a full restore based on the description of most action parts replaced, All renner. The SD-10 was Baldwin's first piano with a full Renner action in it as well. This tells me the strings are fine and didn't need replacement, telling me this piano was mummified for years.
Most concert grand sized pianos for sale as used are almost worthless unless restored as the odds are that they lived in a concert hall getting pounded on and moved around its whole life. Then there are those concert grands out there that spent most of their life in some fancy living room as piece of furniture. Those are where the unicorns lie.