OUCH! ;-)
> j/k, I was lookin' to get rise out of someone.
I guess you did, too...
> Seriously though, at your age, at my age, are we not passed that sort of sh*t?
Depends. Most days, yeah. Some days, I crank up the music pretty loud. I still play a mean electric guitar, and there are days when work's been a bitch and I come home and all the wood is already chopped, and slamming out some screaming blues is Just Right.
I live way the hell out in the country. Nobody minds.
> unless there's JD involved of course, dang that firewater...
I favored JD until around 2000, then I switched over to tequila -- only good stuff, mind you -- and while I still can shoot whiskey, I prefer a good Anejo.
And yes, when my band plays out, the firewater contributes to the overall volume...
Let me get out my book on diplomacy. It might come in handy here.
"Nobody Minds." I don't believe it. If you are out in the beautiful peace and quiet of the country, that makes the noise stand out the more, grating and grinding against the harmony of the countryside which your neighbors cherish. You may not cherish the peace and quiet of the country, but your neighbors do. People who have no sense of respect for their neighbors, well, that means they have never grown up. In other words, that means their sense of justice has never matured. Their personal circle of justice has never grown large enough to include others inside of it. It is only the big "me" that matters. They are still caught up in that "mine" mentality of the toddler, my music, my rush, my rights, even if they are still in a body that is 55 years old. In other words, as time marches on in terms of the aging of the body, time has stood still when it comes to the maturing of the soul. "Nobody minds". That's only an ego-centric delusion.