Fix it!

Posted on May 22, 2010 by jeffculmer


So Patti and I have had the same washer and dryer since the week after we got married, it’s been through a lot, we don’t have kids but still find a way to do a load if not more everyday, and then there’s me, throwing all kinds of whatever in them. For a while the washers foot came off while in mid wash, which caused several weird noises, and me being busy with work the balancing of the washer has been neglected, so it’s walked out the door a couple times. Ok a lot.

But the dryer has been a rock, but recently it’s been squeeking really loud and yesterday it just stopped drying clothes all together. We really needed the clothes that were in the dryer, and really need our dryer. I’m mean who can afford to go out and buy a dryer on a whim. So I thought well it’s broke what’s the worst that can happen if I take it apart and kick it a few times. After much cursing, retreiving bigger hammers, larger screw drivers and scratching of the head I realized I had broke it even more. It really didn’t work, so I decided to take it further apart. I then realized that it was a lost cause, so with the assistance of Patti we spent our much needed sleeping time putting it together, after all that I plugged it back in turned it on, and now it drys faster than before. And I only have one screw and plate thing left over.

What did I learn from this… Getting a bigger hammer really does fix things, and asking for your wife to help you gets things done faster!

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Shows

Posted on May 18, 2010 by jeffculmer


I’ve been trying to post something for the last couple days, I keep giving up because so far all I’ve talked about is work, so I kept giving up because nobody cares about work, especially me!  So in light of the fact that I don’t want to talk about work, and you probably don’t want to read about it, I will say this, Patti is addicted to FRINGE, I love that show, such good writing and just awesome!  I started re-watching the first season, which she, playing games on the computer, not caring what I wanted to watch, started asking questions, and now…. she’s hooked!!  I love it.

We just started season 2, of which season 2 is coming to a close this Thursday, I’m not sure if we’ll make it by then, but we’ll be close, she’s been wanting to watch like 4 episodes a night, I love her.

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Lists

Posted on May 2, 2010 by jeffculmer

The other day I was at Borders picking up some books with my handy gift card that I got as a gift, it happen to be the beginning of the Flood of ’10, after checking out it started to really pour, so while I waited I browsed the magazines to see if there was any photography mag’s I wanted to see, and happen across a magazine that had that guy from U2 on the front, it read “The top 100 front men”.  Naturally I was intrigued, because I have an opinion.  So I started reading the article, reading from 100 down to number 1, as I read through the list, there were people on the list that debunked who I thought would be number 1, John Lennon (10) Paul McCartney (9) Elvis, he was somewhere in the 30′s I believe, that shocked me simply because everybody seems to think he was amazing, I was surprised to see people like Iggy Pop on the list, Matt Ballamy, again surprised me, usually when reading these articals they leave out the people that are actually good, and list the legends or pop icons, like steven tyler, Mic Jagger etc. they’re all good and deserve the title legend, but I was just surprised.

Anyway what really shocked me was who was at number 1, Liam Gallagher that guy that always sings looking up at his mic.  Now here’s the deal, I’ve posted the top 20 underneath so you can look at them and have an opinion ( I would love to hear it), but I have only seen two of the listed below live, Bono and Matt Ballamy.  And I saw them from really… really far away, and most of the others were dead before I was born, so for me to say anything about this list would just be wasted air, I have seen most all of them in some form of live concert video.  Still, don’t have anything to say about it.  Just thought I would share what I found out, without an opinion, if you google this list you’ll find a bunch of mostly angry opinions about the list, I don’t know if these people have seen the whole list live, but it would be hard for me to say without seeing them.

1) Liam Gallagher
2) Bono
3) Freddie Mercury
4) Damon Albarn
5) Chris Martin
6) Matt Bellamy
7) Jim Morrison
8) Bob Marley
9) Paul McCartney
10) John Lennon
11) Robbie Williams
12) Debbie Harry
13) Mick Jagger
14) Morrissey
15) John Lydon
16) James Brown
17) Bruce Springsteen
18) Robert Plant
19) Tom Meighan
20) Joe Strummer

If you’re wondering about Bob Marley’s smiley face, it’s not because I really like his music (it’s good) it’s because I have no idea how to get rid of it, it just shows up.

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End of Tour

Posted on April 27, 2010 by jeffculmer

Getting done with a tour is always tire some, your body is still in tour mode, your eating schedule is still in tour mode, even when you go to the bathroom for the most part is scheduled, you just get use to being on a schedule, and contrary to what other roadies say, you do get use to being around people all the time, never really having time to your self, so when you get home, that’s what you want to do, just spend time by yourself, or with your family, you don’t really want to go any where, you don’t really want to see anybody, because you’ve been surrounded by people/your friends 24/7.   That’s not a bad thing, you just need to recharge you know?   For me the last couple tours I’ve been on, I’ve left from one tour and had to go straight to another, or straight to something else, this time, was almost that way, but instead I’ve got some time between gigs, don’t get me wrong I still have a lot of work to catch up on at the shop, and else where, but for the most part I’m not doing any shows for at least a couple weeks.

The Roadshow tour was a lot of fun, just a good group of guys on the crew, it for the most part was the same crew as last year, with some new fella’s added on for extra support in certain areas of the show, when you have such a tight nit group of guys and for the most part no bickering between departments, it just makes for an easy tour, which this was.

Now that I’m home, as you can see in the picture, one of the things I’m going to be tackling is a game I’ve been waiting for for years!  The newest Splinter Cell game is out, I’ve posted several times about my excitement about this game in the past, it’s been a rumor for ever it seems, and then it was confirmed, and kept having the release date changed due to the story changing and etc.. All I have to say is it came out just in time for birthday, Patti knowing that I’m a big fan went and got me the game.  Lets just say that I’m hooked, it’s an amazing game!!  So if don’t post anything for a couple days, it’s because I’m busy being Sam Fisher.

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Eurovisiondiary

Posted on April 24, 2010 by jeffculmer

It’s that time of year when a few of us geek out, the Eurovisiondiary is a great read, for those who do shows.  This blog or site brings things to a whole new perspective, each day one of the lead guys doing the show, posts pictures and stories of how the show is coming together.

You really should check it out.    Click here

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Cedar Rapids

Posted on April 23, 2010 by jeffculmer

So Cedar Rapids catering wasn’t the best for lunch, usually when this happens we either suck it up or head to the bus and have some cereal,  but today we all decided to head out because we were hungry, so we went to this place called the “Flying Wienie”…….. it was a hotdog joint, that tasted really good, but the people working there were for sure hot dog nazi’s.  One of our guys tried to order 2 or 3 different things, and the guy working there kept telling him “no, you don’t want that”.   And the lady, that took my order kept acting like I’d been there before, like the lunch lady in school when you ask her the same question everyday and she has that really annoyed look and is very snippy, yea that was this lady.  But the food was way better than what we had for catering.

My lunch, I’m regretting the chili cheese dog a little now.

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Birthday

Posted on April 22, 2010 by jeffculmer

My Birthday was the other day, I wasn’t expecting any gifts from anybody I just didn’t I like having a low key b-day, but my mom being the awesome mom that she is, sent me a pretty cool gift, it’s a replica miniature truck and trailer of what my grandpa’s company trucks use to look like.  Most of you know that I’m a fan of knowing and collecting family history, I’ve posted about this before, I love this stuff, especially this kind of stuff.  She found it on ebay out of all places, I don’t know the full story, but I do know that my grandfathers company has a bunch of stuff like this, toys and stuff that they would hand out to people that worked for them, ice cream scoops that has the logo on it, these trucks, ashtrays (which I have one), there’s tons of these items still out there, back in the day, my grandfather started a company that employed a lot of people, from what I hear it was the largest non-union trucking company in the U.S. at one point.  I’ve always been proud of the fact that my grandparents (simple folk from a small farm in Iowa) were able to start something that provided an income for a lot of people.  The company no longer is around, you know third generation gets a hold of it, times change, I’m not really sure what the deal was. but do to that fact, it makes these items even more valuable to me.

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Roadie Foul Update.

Posted on April 18, 2010 by jeffculmer

An update to the previous “Roadie Foul“.  After seeing my post and thanking me for using him, the next day the roadie dropped a lid on his foot.  Yea he’s going to lose his toenail.  And possible have a limp for the rest of his life.

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