Hot Tub Nut!

 Hot Tub Nut indeed! About three months I purchased a fine addition to the outdoor portion of the Cave. A Tuff Spa TT450. Yesterday I had a nice soak with the first snowfall of the year.

Lord of the Thighs!

 Another multi camera video recording attempt with OBS Studio. This time to Aerosmith's "Lord of the Thighs" and also video from my iphone and with some cheesecake (old school term for you youngsters) thrown in for good measure.

Multi Angle Test to Toto's Hydra

Yep It's been a while since my last post. Here's a test video of recording a short session of Rocksmith 2014 to Toto's Hydra with a couple of cameras.

 

New Bass Pedal Digitech BP90 Demo

I know this blog has been neglected big time. I'm going to renew my efforts for more content.

Yep! It's been awhile!

Tell me about it. "Too much to say...too little time to do it?" Well not really. Anyway way too much neglect to this blog, I'm back! (For today anyway.) I received a pretty cool gift for Christmas this year. A ContourROAM3 action camera. It's pretty slick. I wanted it mainly for my baseball addiction.  I found another cool use for it. Recording some Bass Jamming/Noodling! Here are some clips.

It' been a long time coming.....The Rick is Here!

I did get a deal.

Ready to take home.

Yea Yea I know you thought I forgot about this blog. Maybe I did. 2014 has been a strange year for me. It started out excellent. I went to Reds Fantasy Camp. The this past spring it was announced at work my operations group was going to be laid off. That sucked the big hairy one to be sure. So this summer has been dubbed the "Summer of Discontent" or The Summer of Suck". But all was not lost during the Summer of Suck. After my time with CBT was done, I did obtain a nice severance for all my time and trouble there. Hence, "The Severance Fairy" came to visit the Cave. Via Sam Ash, The cave welcomes a New 2014 Rickenbacker 4003 Midnight Blue Bass Guitar. My "dream" bass. I found this gem over a week ago, up at Sam Ash in Springdale. I've always dreamed of owning this bass. Ever since I saw Yes and Chris Squire play one years ago.

The Fish

The Fish?

A Nice addition to the "Rock Wall"

What to expect from this here blog.

     Greetings. First off I want to say to all of you , that I'm a man with various interests and hobbies. They include in no particular order, sports (both following and participation) Music (both playing myself and obviously listening..duh.) Astronomy/Astro photography. Much of the content of this blog will be about said hobbies/interests. Actually my basement/"Man Cave" in itself is a hobby. I'm constantly adding items/tweaking things in it here and there. Items in the "cave" are a eclectic collection of crap I sometimes say when I describe it. My wife told me many years ago, "It's your basement, do whatever." So I have. Here are a few photos.

My Favorite Bourbon

Christmas "Drinking" buddies

As you can obvious see. I'm a huge Cincinnati Reds fan. A Cincinnati sports fan in general. The "Rock Wall" as I call it shows my Music tastes. Mainly "classic rock" as I am on the tail end of the baby boomer generation. You can also see my "axes" My 1994 Fender "Stu Hamm Urge" bass is one of my prized possessions. I also have an 1996 Fender Stratocaster. I play the bass mainly. I'm not in a band. I do jam with some folks from time to time though. You and also sort of see my telescope.It's hidden under that black fedora (dust cover) It's Celestron  NexStar 4SE Computerized Telescope.

     Reason for the "Man Cave"? I'm the only male in my household. My wife and I have two lovely daughters. Actually the above statement isn't totally honest. Well it was until about this time a year ago. That's when we got this guy.

My little Buddy Toby

Toby is male 1 year old Shih Tzu. When we decided to get a pup I insisted on getting a male one. I desperately needed someone on my side!
     The basement has always been "mine". Oh sure the girls when they were younger had a ball playing down there all the time. When we finished it 11 years ago. (basically did all the work on it myself with some family help). I always envisioned it as my space. As the girls got older the less time they spent down there. Don't get me wrong the family still goes down there. Family movie night is always held there or when we watch our "viewed as a family TV shows." But basically it's mine now. No one complains. Everybody needs ones space.