◙ Li’l PINCH (←thang) ◙ pdib (←maker) ◙ not sayin’ (←just sayin’) ◙ shuh-ZAM! (←hyperbole)
- Thread starter pdib
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
Tell y'all a little story.
One evening last week, while I was down at the cabin in the Blue Ridge, I misplaced my walnut Pinch for several hours. That mod has been my ADV / daily driver for more than six years now. It's been everywhere with me, and I am not normally someone who loses track of the mod I'm using!
Anyway, I searched high and low, everywhere I could conceivably have put it down. I was distraught completely and beside myself for not being able to locate it. I'm not even sure I understand why I was so upset. It's not like I didn't have other mods available there, and it's not like I don't have spare Pinches; as most of you know, I have pretty nice collection of them. But none of them are the walnut Pinch that's been my constant companion for so long.
Yes, I did eventually find it, and it's still my ADV.
meant to ask. was there a point in this story where the exclamation, "Dohhh!", made an appearance? ( . . .. or, a "sonance", I guess).
Yeah, something like that, when I finally looked in the place where I had actually put it down.
Except when I'm at my desk, or in bed, my Pinch usually lives in my shirt pocket, just like a pack of cigs did for decades prior to the switch. In fact, I will not wear shirts that don't have pockets.
Many years ago, I learned that I have to be careful when I bend over, for example to pick something up off the ground, lest it fall out and onto the ground. If I only need one hand to do what I'm doing on the ground, I unconsciously use the other to restrain it in my pocket. Call it muscle memory, if you will. But if I need both (and I did) I usually take it out and put it down somewhere temporarily. But I also usually remember to grab it and put it back in my shirt pocket the moment I'm upright again. In this case, I seem to have had a brain fart and neglected to do so.
I have this old-school hanging produce scale in my kitchen.
I once spent about an hour searching for a mod that was packed and ready to ship.
Had left it in the scale when I'd weighed it and then gone to the 'puter to print the shipping label.
I also exclaimed "doh!"; but you'da not heard it fluttering amongst all the other colorful birds flying from my mouth.
I once spent about an hour searching for a mod that was packed and ready to ship.
Had left it in the scale when I'd weighed it and then gone to the 'puter to print the shipping label.
I also exclaimed "doh!"; but you'da not heard it fluttering amongst all the other colorful birds flying from my mouth.
Yeah, something like that, when I finally looked in the place where I had actually put it down.
Except when I'm at my desk, or in bed, my Pinch usually lives in my shirt pocket, just like a pack of cigs did for decades prior to the switch. In fact, I will not wear shirts that don't have pockets.
Many years ago, I learned that I have to be careful when I bend over, for example to pick something up off the ground, lest it fall out and onto the ground. If I only need one hand to do what I'm doing on the ground, I unconsciously use the other to restrain it in my pocket. Call it muscle memory, if you will. But if I need both (and I did) I usually take it out and put it down somewhere temporarily. But I also usually remember to grab it and put it back in my shirt pocket the moment I'm upright again. In this case, I seem to have had a brain fart and neglected to do so.
I have this old-school hanging produce scale in my kitchen.
I once spent about an hour searching for a mod that was packed and ready to ship.
Had left it in the scale when I'd weighed it and then gone to the 'puter to print the shipping label.
I also exclaimed "doh!"; but you'da not heard it fluttering amongst all the other colorful birds flying from my mouth.
One time in my office, urgently needing to note something down, I was more and more feverishly shouting "Where's my pen?"..."where is my effin pen?!??!!".
But no one could understand what I was saying. Because I was holding my pen between my teeth.
I semi frequently lose my pdib wallet. Frantically search the house, revise how to cancel and replace cards
And then find it in my pocket
And then find it in my pocket
My wife was on the phone talking to the 2nd offspring and frantically walking back and forth through the house looking for her phone.
i think i get emails for sales too
i might get some in january, after i finish christmas shopping
@pdib
I am setting a Pinch up as a "hot spare". That means I need to add it to my maintenance logs. However, this is one I acquired second-hand. I think I got it from DJ, but I am no longer certain. In any case, I need to give it a name. My logs currently contain "Walnut Pinch", "Green Pinch" (which I know is a dyed, stabilized maple), and "Koa Pinch", plus a several CCs by metal/alloy (yeah I own and use a few of those too).
Would you happen to recall what species of wood this was, so I can reference it properly?
Apologies for the quick & dirty snapshot.
I am setting a Pinch up as a "hot spare". That means I need to add it to my maintenance logs. However, this is one I acquired second-hand. I think I got it from DJ, but I am no longer certain. In any case, I need to give it a name. My logs currently contain "Walnut Pinch", "Green Pinch" (which I know is a dyed, stabilized maple), and "Koa Pinch", plus a several CCs by metal/alloy (yeah I own and use a few of those too).
Would you happen to recall what species of wood this was, so I can reference it properly?
Apologies for the quick & dirty snapshot.
just off the top of my head, I believe the one I made for DJ was Desert Ironwood.
I'll check the records to confirm.
I'll check the records to confirm.
Thank you, sir!
PS: It's all set up now with a proper Burns bottle (it had some even squishier bottle in it) and my usual, tootle-puffing 0.75 ohm (3x30 twisted) Z-Coil in an O-16 and a VTC5A. It runs good.
Last edited:
- Status
Similar threads
