Zapple Violin

The project was to be a violin made from the trees in our yard. Inspired by the major trimming of the Catalpa which should make a decent violin top plate.
Unfortunately, the last decent size piece of Apple was too short. So I bought the Maple. Half way through carving the Maple I decided it was stupid to make a violin from the trees in our yard if I used trees from somebody else's yard .
Ii went back to the last bit of apple and realized if I sliced it right, I could make the back in three pieces. The Apple, however, is even more spaltier and knottier than the Maple, So I'll lower my purist standards and use the router. Not like it's ever going to get played or anything. I'll use the Maple back for a different violin.
I'm also building an odd shaped viola to go along with my odd shaped cello and two odd shaped violins and hope to get some string quartet to play my odd shaped piece for string quartet. (see earlier post with link to the odd shaped piece, it's down the page somewhere) 
Gonna take a long bike ride tomorrow
It's tomorrow now
Took a ride around the north forty today, along the way, my speedometer registered a top speed of 66 mph. I think that is inaccurate.
Also I got my bank statement and it appears that it is not an account I have with them but that we are in a "relationship" I know what that is code for in Facebook jargon, but if it means the same with my bank, I'm certainly not the one on top.
I got the Apple wood slabs glued together the markings on the wood look kinda like Frank Zappa. 
 

  Good night folks -  from your splinter encrusted buddy, Lane

More bicycle stuff

Took a 27.77 ride on my 2 wheeled anal suppository yesterday.
Got to thinking about gears. If the bottom (i.e. stump puller) is the granny gear, shouldn't the others have family names too? For instance perhaps my two front gears should mother and father gears (or for those of us who ride les Bee-Cee-Clays; les vitesses mere et pere)
and the five in the back would be grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews.
Mother's mother would, of course, be the stump puller.
Next would be auntie, then maybe niece gears 1 and 2, then sister gear in order of difficulty of living with.
The papa gear set would be similar; grandad gear, uncle gear, a pair of nephews, and the toughest one of all, your brother.
I'm getting stronger every ride, I'm riding hills in grandpa that used to be in the enate gears, topped the hill and hit 43 in brother on the way down.

If you've got 27 gears, I can't advise.

Some stuff I've been working on this past year.
Concerto for clarinet ans orchestra. The first truly 21st century music ever written.
It's 12 minutes long and worth every second

https://soundcloud.com/douglas-c-palmer/clarinet-concerto  

Once when I was in Alabama, I was looking for a famous blues bar.

I asked this guy who was standing next to a run down building where the place might be.

I could have sworn he told me "red chair"

Records falling like the rane in Spokain

I got my most rides in a year record at 775.1 Now I'm going for 800.

  It was a nice blue sky and I needed 12 miles for a best year for bike distance. At 12 miles I was sitting outside at Madison Park Bakery with a large coffee and a maple bar when I felt some drops of rain. 

I got my most rides in a year record at 775.1 Now I'm going for 800. 

Ten miles to home hope the rain holds back, knocked back the coffee and split

With about 6 miles away from home I was soaked. 

That was Monday

I've got five weeks to get the next 24.9 miles and Monday next looks to be a nice day.

Is there a point to this story? 

 

A moral? 

 

No.

 Decided to not be such a wimp and ride my bike in the rain 

Only did ten miles 

On the way, I saw a couple models posing for a picture 

I hadn't intended to splash them but I had to stick to the curb due to passing cars 

Anyway a bike doesn't splash much 

So I don't think that was the problem 

Maybe it was getting my leg caught on the umbrella knocking them off balance 

guy ended up sitting with his butt off the curb in the street 

Camera guy called me an asshole 

gave me the finger 

Should ride more often

So my hair is going all Einsteiny on me, thought I'd go get a haircut. Stopped at my favorite Queen Anne Starbucks first. Guy looks at my Michelle button and says "You actually gonna vote for those commies?" .  Hah, I said "I just like to look at hot babes, but, sure, why not", says I. 

"You spending your welfare check on a five buck cuppa coffee, then?. 

Actually, sez I, I am worth several million all my real estate is paid for and provides me with more than enough moolah to afford to drink here . But, if you people want to vote for Romney, it's fine with me. Your taxes will go up and I'll get richer. If you like that scenario, why not cut out the middle man and pay for my short drip and a yoghurt cup?
That was so much fun I forgot the haircut.