Here are some pictures I stumbled upon while doing some recent spring cleaning (even though it's officially summer in like 1 day from now).
This is my Digi-Tech guitar effects unit. It's one of those all-in-one units, with guitar effects like distortion & overdrive, EQ, all kinds of different reverb and echo sounds, and it has 40 prepared sounds in it's memory, and it allows 40 user-defined sounds, all saved in flash memory. It's really a simple computer tailor-made for manipulating audio from guitars. Ok, so when I say "simple computer" it's really a contradiction of terms.
Anyway, the pedals are intended to be operated by your foot, so you can change your sound without having to stop playing guitar, since the guitar takes up both hands to play.
Well, eventually the pedal switches started to become less and less responsive until some of them no longer worked at all. I decided to take it apart and investigate.
I just love staring at electronic stuff. I don't know why. I'd rather just stare at a hot female, but if there's none around, electronics are ok. Or hot cars.
I found that the plasic part that touches the switches was flattening out a bit from wear. I cut out and taped a thin piece of cardbord to fill in the gap.
I put it back together and the switches were then working great, almost like new.
Of course, my cat Lexus just had to investigate my guitar gear. As soon as I go to play something though, she hauls ass to get away from the sound. She does not like guitars or basses that are making music. Or, maybe she just hates my music.
Well here are some pictures of my newly covered roof. They got the shingles finished. Woo-Hoo!!!!!!!!!
This shot shows a place where I had a minor leak every time there was a major rainstorm. Once the gutter is installed, it should be leak-free. Right at the bottom of this valley is where it leaked into the room, on the wall. I'm looking forward to not having that leak any more.
More pictures to follow.
I was lucky - I have the old-fashioned tongue-in-groove type of wood underneath the shingles. It was mostly in good shape. That stuff is supposed to be good wood to have on your roof. They only had to replace a small amount of it and then they put the new ice barrier on, then the new shingles. These pictures show it with the old shingles removed and the tongue-in-groove wood exposed.
Here's an alleged Blue Heron. He or she is right out there on the Niagara River, scoping out some fish maybe? You can see the GI bridge there in the background. In the immediate area there seemed to be a ton of minnows and other fish swimming around.
Here's a picture of the GI bridge again. I figured since I had to pay a $1 toll to get over that bridge, I might as well have a picture of it.
That day we had a little cookout with Filet Mignon and chicken on the grill. It was delicious. It was grilled on a Weber grill. Those things rock. Later in the evening as the sun was setting, we say some way-cool storm clouds roll in.
There was a heck of a rain shower that rolled in after the clouds darkened up the sky. There's the GI bridge again in the background - hey, it cost be a whole dollar, like I said earlier, and I need to justify the expense. 
