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Some damn, dirty hippie with entirely too many guitar amps. Taken in St. Petersburg, FL in 1973 by Joel Bernstein.

I stumbled on this looking for something to listen to now that my queue is empty. I didn't know it existed. It's an interesting combo. All three of these musicians are obviously great. I enjoyed it but their styles didn't mesh all that great for me. ex.

Not For Lack Of Trying by dodie (2025) https://open.qobuz.com/album/ukgy6v7yfn6tb Example: Second time through the album, and like it better than the first time. Released the same day as queen T above. This will have staying power in my queue.

^ Never understood going after Mann. Have two of her books. Spent Sunday at a lowrider event at Montalvo, likely my last one of 2025. Decided to take two cameras and have a little test between them - a dusty, slow Hassy 500cm with II 50c 50MP digital back & old Zeiss Distagon 50 f/4 T* and a shiny, snap-like Sigma 24MP BF (Beautifully Foolish) with a matching new 35 f/2 Contemporary. For fun shot at 1:1, which most definitely isn’t natural for me. Hassy Sigma

Thanks Nate for the advice. I consume 5-6 liters of fluid on daily basis. Min 3 liters of water, 2 cups of coffee, 4 cups of tea. But about salt, yea I love salt. I have to reduce the amount I consume, I suppose. Gonna work on it. Also, I - at least - doubled the consumption of dairies since I became vegetarian (13 months have passed since I became one) to make up the amount of protein I need. Maybe that contributed as well. I took appointments for urology and MRI for next Monday. Gonna get a clear picture I hope.

Man it's been a good 10 years since I had a kidney stone. I'm glad to only have had one and you're quite lucky to not have felt the passage from kidney to bladder (unless it really was just a bladder stone). Just about all patients (Steve and I included) experience the worst pain as the stone makes its way from Kidney down, simply because that's the smallest pipe. But all that said, completely agree, passing a solid is not fun. Side note - look for areas in your life where you are letting yourself get overly dehydrated or taking in too many salts/minerals. My brother in law had stones 4 or 5 times until he realized that taking his kids leftover multi-vitamins on top of his own daily vitamin was overloading his kidneys. Talk about a painful lesson.

That is the weird stuff Steve. I've never felt any pain except while I was shooting the stone from my urinal canal. I literally felt it's pressure on the canal as it went through. The ER doctor and my father wouldn't believe how I endured the pain but, as I said I didn't felt any unusual thing till I peed with blood. Cannot compare as I haven't experienced kidney stone but as I read, bladder stones aren't as painful as kidney stones. There wasn't any bad reading about my vitals too, except my elevated heart beat. The stone was like small red lentil, like a 1.5-2mm size like oval shaped. I'm going to visit an urologist next week. Thank you Steve, for taking time and educating me on possible health complications. Gonna take a full Check-up after urologist too.

So I've been there myself. I had no idea what was happening to me, but it was the worst pain I've ever had. I finally called Al, who took me to the emergency room. The first thing that they did was to take my vitals. I remember the look on the Doctors face as he took my blood pressure. All of a sudden the initial reason for me being there (I think they already suspected a kidney stone), everything switched to reducing my BP. I was quite literally in the stroke zone. Once they gave me some BP medication, and got that down a bit, then they switched back to the kidney stone. However, the kidney stone that caused that incredible pain was the size of a grain of salt. I actually thought at one point my appendix might have ruptured. I thought it was possible that I might die. That's when I decided to call Al. The good thing that came out of that experience was that the ER Dr. made me an appointment to get more thoroughly checked out. That's when I discovered my hypertension. A week later my diabetes and elevated cholesterol. The meds that I take now are working fantastic at controlling those issues. I just can't imagine a lentil sized stone! I thought I was dying from a salt grain sized stone. The stone passing through my penis was painless (insert large penis joke here). It's whatever vein or artery it initially traveled through that was excruciating. I understand your pain and your panic! I did not have any blood in my urine during my event, however 10 years earlier I woke up and went to pee and my urine was red. My Father had this happen several times. He also had hypertension. So I understood the gravity of blood in urine. My panic completely left a few minutes later as I discovered the Red Velvet cake I had made the day before, and consumed some of had started bleeding the Red color through the cream cheese icing. Thankfully it was just the Red dye from the cake. That was the first and last time I ever made or ate Red velvet cake. Just take this as a warning to be thoroughly checked out. If something is made aware from this, it can be treated. Don't be a dumbass like me and wait until your almost 60 to finally go to a Dr. We're never bulletproof. Not at 60, not at 40 or even 20.

RIP Ken Parker, designer of the most advanced guitar ever, the Parker Fly Deluxe. This one hits hard, I regret having to sell all my Parker Fly Deluxes over the course of the last year, they were the most amazing guitars. I just pulled the bass out of storage to fix and sell (it's just the battery compartment).

RIP, Dame Jilly Cooper

So yesterday night, I had blood in my urine, like my pee was strawberry flavoured. Fucking freaked out, was thinking like "worst experience of my life". Went to ER immediately. After waiting half an hour and drinking lots of fluid, even before seeing the doctor, I passed the effing bladderstone on my next urination. That was THE WORST experience of my life. Nothing in solid form should ever pass from there. It was out of blue. I haven't had any pain or anything and within an hour I peed blood and passed a small red lentils sized bladderstone. I don't have any pain or burning but going to take antibiotics for a week. It was a wake up call like "you're not a young guy any more, should start take care of yourself better" TL;DR: I peed blood, shot a small stone from my penis and felt old.