Dan Gould

It's come to my attention that reel-to-reel is not the only source for worthwhile Schaap recordings from way back when. Here is a link to cassette sourced MP3s: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?current_flock=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&f[description_source_search_facet_sms][]=Audiocassette&myresources=0&request_is_xhr=false&search_field=advanced&search_type=advance&sort=title_ss+asc&update_facets=true&user_ip=173.171.182.128 And an interesting one contained therein: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/137221/file/254432 Brooks Kerr, Artie Miller, George Kelly, Sonny Greer. This search ought to catch all of them - Type is "Live Sound Recordings": https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?current_flock=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&f[description_type_search_facet_sms][]=Live+sound+recordings&myresources=0&request_is_xhr=false&search_field=advanced&search_type=advance&sort=title_ss+asc&update_facets=true&user_ip=173.171.182.128

Some of us have to, until we die.

I think I am lucky to be on the border with Polk county where TECO had a restoration date of yesterday which they barely met. Our outage straddled the county line and was probably more on the Polk side than the Hillsborough side. Hope it comes back soon, TTK and thanks for the well wishes Lon.

Power came on about 5:00 yesterday afternoon, and when I re-set the house and the non-paying boarders for long extension cords and fans and the rest of it, I discovered that with TECO power restored, so was Spectrum internet. So its back to work this morning, can't say I am excited about it but on the other hand, it avoids giving the boss any ideas that I wasn't really missed all that much. The best part of the power restoration was that within 30 minutes of when it happened I was going to be rolling out the generator at the house to the well pump to re-fill 100 gallon tank of water for the horses among other things. That is no fun and the longer you have to do it the more exhausting it is. And cold showers into steamy houses that don't have fans running is no bueno either. So, we will finally prioritize a third generator of some sort so that we can have a pump-dedicated one that doesn't move once its wheeled out there.

This is getting pretty ridiculous. Police escorts for fuel trucks. Line workers spotted midday very close by. No change in status. TECO says Thursday for virtually all of Hillsborough County. I think we may play chicken with them on gas for generators until then. My wife drove 4 hours to her mom's just to increase gas cans by 50%.

As Kevin reported we made it thru ok. No power and only one generator that will run, which is a problem for the relatives. Hoping to have replacement part for generator tomorrow and expect to have barn damage repaired also. Then it's waiting for power and securing gas for generators in meantime. With one generator going we can get pump turned on for water at the expense of shutting down fridge and fans in the house. Blessing is that Temps fall to mid 60s at night. Comfortable sleeping weather and house not getting brutal during day.

uncle/aunt/cat/dog are secure in our concrete block home. Horses locked in. Track is improved both for us and for my friend on the Bay, if it holds. Now we wait. Won't be long. See y'all when I see ya.

Read the NY Times obit and discovered some baseball passings this year that I don't recall hearing about, so here are some free articles: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/sports/baseball/luis-tiant-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q04.13qq.cff-QltcYOsg&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/sports/baseball/ken-holtzman-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q04.Khxr.9cxtofJjK3b7&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/obituaries/carl-erskine-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q04.GUYn.IFYQ_TZIPVrM&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/sports/baseball/fritz-peterson-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q04.FlJa.WhMUKSDk3_-S&smid=url-share https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/sports/baseball/don-gullett-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q04.K__X.jQ75w8l4klqR&smid=url-share

The cone is narrowing and still centered on Tampa. If it could slide south and hit Sarasota it could make a small difference for me and my friend who is so close to the bay. And a small difference is both a slender reed to hang your hopes on, and could make all the difference in the world.

Not sure how I didn't know this, but the classic/crazy wind up was a reaction to an arm injury and not how he threw from the start. With less of a fastball he had to adjust to add some deception. I loved it as a kid.

El Tiante has died. https://www.mlb.com/news/luis-tiant-dies

Current map is offshore (close but not yet) at 7 pm Wed and 7 am Thursday over Orlando. So I have no idea who might be indicating 2 pm Wednesday landfall. 2 pm Wednesday Tropical Storm force winds maybe.

And I haven't mentioned my buddy who skedaddled to their house in the NC mountains (somehow no damage there despite how western North Carolina has been described) but not before discovering that their insurance lapsed in March. They paid off the mortgage a few years ago so no escrow account, and insist they got neither a non-renewal notice, a renewal offer or a cancelation notice. They are surrounded by the bay

People should actually read the Safir-Simpson scale and consider ... what is worse than 'catastrophic' damage? Got a better adjective? https://www.weather.gov/mfl/saffirsimpson They also incorporate rain predictions into flash flood warnings plus storm surge predictions. 125 as it nears the coast gives me a little hope our barn and apartment/garage structure will live on. The problem is that the due west end is a gable roof. My wife may have to convince her uncle and aunt to come to our house for the duration. Edit to add: The two story structure that the aunt and uncle live in is directly in front of (attached) to the one story wood frame/metal roof actual stalls for horses. So that is a strong wind buffer for direct effects where the horses will be. We've also screwed down - extra, extra screws - the metal slats into the frame. I actually feel better about where the horses will be than where the family members will be.

Tampa Bay is in serious trouble period. Weakening makes wind field larger which widens the impact. I'd rather have lower sustained winds, period.

The "good" news: As of 5 am max sustained winds predicted at 125, which are hairy, but not 150+. The undoubtedly bad news: The current track line is within <5 miles from my house.

On the positive side our helper, Danny, got up on the metal roof over the horses and drilled in a box of screws into the wood frame and feels that the roof can't go anywhere. That of course presumes that the roof frame itself has no weak spots. Guess we will see!

I started a Milton-specific thread and frankly, given the expected impacts I think it deserves its own.

Might be is an understatement! Holey Moley! I had not (obviously) so that is fantastic news. And Irvin Stokes, Ed Cherry and ... Chris Anderson (!) are all not previously heard with Percy. Thank you!

Wednesday during the day. A colleague is in north Georgia and she was out a week for Helene, and mentioned how much she hated the storm hitting during the middle of the night when you can't tell anything about what is going on other than the roaring wind and rain. Helene did basically nothing to us being 25 miles or so inland, but two other colleagues live in Tampa and St Pete and close to the ocean. They are definitely going thru it twice in a row. We do have a generator, two of them. Once we get to the other side we can go a while without power as needed. I am just worried about what could happen when it hits. The track right now has the center about 20 miles (maybe) to our south. TTK is definitely at risk, hopefully he is battening down and perhaps getting the hell out of Dodge.

There is no evacuating with six horses. The hoped-for saving grace is that the worst wind will come from the west and there is a two story building in front of the wooden/metal roof where the horses will be locked down.

I'll tell you the truth: This thing is starting to scare the ever loving CRAP out of me, when I think of six horses plus two elderly family members living above the barn. I've helpfully put a little yellow mark approximately where we live.

Not to mention not a murderer, nor imprisoned.

I received my copy last night and can report one thing: Get out your strong reading glasses, or have a magnifying glass handy. It may be 220 pages but this is the smallest type I've seen since Buck Clayton's autobiography.

I do mind them and he is what we coined in college: a walking penis. Did we get the statcast "how many other parks that was a home run" in? Cause it seems like the Brewers park is something of a travesty like Houston and Philly. Their two in the 8th weren't cheapies but that struck me as one of those "a home run in two other parks" jobs.