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I think Guyon will back me up here, when just getting into kayaking remember: color coordination is essential.

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I coordinate my wading shoes with my paddling rings, so hell yeah. Whatdja' get there? It looks light.
 
Really think I found a bargain here. It's a Carlisle Expedition all fiberglass. Under a hundred and pretty fast.
 
I hate looking for a place to get a haircut and invariably when I find a place I like they close down, move across town, retire...etc. Most of this week and last I drove around on my lunch hour looking for a place. Today I was coming back to the office after giving up and I see one of those white, red, and blue barber signs, like the old poles you used to see all the time. I had to search the strip center before I actually found the shop, it was by itself, tucked away and up some stairs. As I walked up the stairs it was like going back in time.. the paint was completely different than the rest of the strip center. I found the old door and went inside. There was 2 old fashion barber chairs that looked like they were from the 20's.. must have taken 4 guys to carry them up the stairs. There was 4 old cafeteria chairs against one wall. The wall had 5 or 6 kentucky derby pictures and a poster of some of the creepiest clowns I have ever seen. I wanted to snap a picture of that poster to use for defense if I got mugged.. super sad, creepy looking clown faces on it. Anyway, I wait for my turn and get in the chair. One thing I hate is telling the "stylist" how to cut my hair.. I don't want to look in a magazine or try some whacked out new cut.. I want my hair cut, end of story. I told him "short, but not to the skin" he nodded his head and threw a sheet over me with one fluid motion, he had done that a few 100 thousand times before. He goes to town with a cutter that clacked louder than a diesel truck and smelled like an old sewing machine. I closed my eyes and I could see and smell my Grandma's old singer machine. He finishes the top and I hear something behind me like he is making espresso, as he turns around I can smell the shaving cream and it is just on the edge of hot as he put it around my ears and neck. I saw the straight razor about an inch from my eye as he started to shave in front of my ear. I haven't had a haircut with a straight razor since i used to go to my Grandfather's barber shop when I was like 8.. He finished up and turned the chair around and I had the perfect cut, I couldn't have explained it any better. I am all for new technology, I work on it every day.. but sometimes the old ways are best ways...I have always felt true craftsmanship is something to be cherished and celebrated and as I get older and see less and less of it I feel like it is even more important. For the best haircut I have had in years he charged 10 bucks.. I gave him $15, shook his hand, and told him I would be back.. I sure as hell hope he doesn't retire anytime soon.. :)
 
I need to get the wife and I kayaks. I feel I'm missing out on some great fun. What's a good recommendation, of some starter yaks? You know, at least one has to float my fatness.
 
Now thats a haircut!!!

There is a place in walking distance of my house that uses straight razors and hot shaving cream and all that good stuff. It cost 20 bucks before tip but its worth it.... I cut my own hair most the time but when I go to get it done, I go there! Its worth the 25 I pay once every couple months or so.

Its funny because my wife asked why I tipped, she said its not a restaurant, LMAO I told her anyone that has to deal with me deserves a tip lmao, My tattoo artist gets at least a 50 dollar tip each visit. But he gives me great prices.
 
I haven't paid for a haircut in a couple decades. Every few years I have it all chopped off and donate to one of those places that makes wigs for cancer patients and stuff, so they don't charge me. In the meantime I just leave it long.

Yup, I'm a 42-yr-old man with a beer gut and a ponytail. :o
 
The Warrior said:
I need to get the wife and I kayaks. I feel I'm missing out on some great fun. What's a good recommendation, of some starter yaks? You know, at least one has to float my fatness.
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tradewater says Perceptions are crap. :p

It really depends on what your primary use is going to be.
If you're going to be paddling streams and rivers, then I think a 10' recreational kayak is the way to go. Many are super stable, but still turn on a dime, which is important in a river.
If you're going to be paddling flat water most of the time, then you need to think longer and more streamline. Lots of good touring kayaks out there.
If you're going to do nothing but fish? Get a sit-on-top platform.
 
Craigslist is a good idea. I think given my size, that a sit-on-top would be best. Seems like it anywhos. I have no experience whatsoever in a kayak.
 
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Honestly, I'd look on Craigslist.
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Good time of year to be buying. People are selling the kayaks they bought in spring but barely used.
Also the time of year that Dick's clears out a lot of boats at much better prices.
 
Guyon said:
Good time of year to be buying. People are selling the kayaks they bought in spring but barely used.
Also the time of year that Dick's clears out a lot of boats at much better prices.
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Bingo. I forgot about Dick's. They have some real bargains when they clearance out.
 
cOLD said:
I hate looking for a place to get a haircut and invariably when I find a place I like they close down, move across town, retire...etc. Most of this week and last I drove around on my lunch hour looking for a place. Today I was coming back to the office after giving up and I see one of those white, red, and blue barber signs, like the old poles you used to see all the time. I had to search the strip center before I actually found the shop, it was by itself, tucked away and up some stairs. As I walked up the stairs it was like going back in time.. the paint was completely different than the rest of the strip center. I found the old door and went inside. There was 2 old fashion barber chairs that looked like they were from the 20's.. must have taken 4 guys to carry them up the stairs. There was 4 old cafeteria chairs against one wall. The wall had 5 or 6 kentucky derby pictures and a poster of some of the creepiest clowns I have ever seen. I wanted to snap a picture of that poster to use for defense if I got mugged.. super sad, creepy looking clown faces on it. Anyway, I wait for my turn and get in the chair. One thing I hate is telling the "stylist" how to cut my hair.. I don't want to look in a magazine or try some whacked out new cut.. I want my hair cut, end of story. I told him "short, but not to the skin" he nodded his head and threw a sheet over me with one fluid motion, he had done that a few 100 thousand times before. He goes to town with a cutter that clacked louder than a diesel truck and smelled like an old sewing machine. I closed my eyes and I could see and smell my Grandma's old singer machine. He finishes the top and I hear something behind me like he is making espresso, as he turns around I can smell the shaving cream and it is just on the edge of hot as he put it around my ears and neck. I saw the straight razor about an inch from my eye as he started to shave in front of my ear. I haven't had a haircut with a straight razor since i used to go to my Grandfather's barber shop when I was like 8.. He finished up and turned the chair around and I had the perfect cut, I couldn't have explained it any better. I am all for new technology, I work on it every day.. but sometimes the old ways are best ways...I have always felt true craftsmanship is something to be cherished and celebrated and as I get older and see less and less of it I feel like it is even more important. For the best haircut I have had in years he charged 10 bucks.. I gave him $15, shook his hand, and told him I would be back.. I sure as hell hope he doesn't retire anytime soon.. :)
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Best story I've read in awhile.

Lol, youtalk about feeling like you stepped back in time because I've a paint job, I spend all day in ghettos, it's the same paint and house that was there in the 40's, just a lot less kept up..
 
What do you guys think of a lumbar pack something like this?

[video=youtube;stXNJegwaS0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stXNJegwaS0[/video]
 
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