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Post A bit of luck
This past weekend I found myself away from home, and remembered having seen a black railboard on eBay originating in the town I was visiting. The listing had just expired without a sale, so I called the owner and just 45 minutes after deciding to buy, the railboard was delivered to my hotel. Just had to crow about that....
In two weeks I will use it to perform the KC piece,"Discipline", with some classmates in Sonoma State's amazing Schroeder Hall. Rehearsals are sounding great.

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Craziness. Sometimes it works out! So how's about a video to celebrate? With some crazy playing...

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Brilliant, some things might be meant to happen. >Well done! :o

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There is something special about the way the Railboard delivers those three lowest strings on the bass side. It's going to sound great.

Randy gave us a sneak peak of this piece at the last FHA workshop with Bob, Emmett and drum maestro Rick Allegria. it's going to be even Rail-ier now!

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Post Re: A bit of luck
mad_monk wrote:
This past weekend I found myself away from home, and remembered having seen a black railboard on eBay originating in the town I was visiting. The listing had just expired without a sale, so I called the owner and just 45 minutes after deciding to buy, the railboard was delivered to my hotel. Just had to crow about that....
In two weeks I will use it to perform the KC piece,"Discipline", with some classmates in Sonoma State's amazing Schroeder Hall. Rehearsals are sounding great.

Mad Monk.
Wow! How awesome! "...so I called the owner and just 45 minutes after deciding to buy, the railboard was delivered to my hotel." Damn, now that's a twist to the Stickwait stories!

I'm so excited for you. Good luck on your performance!

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Thanks everyone. It was like ordering a pizza.

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Congratulations on your new purchase.

I can relate to that feeling.
I used to buy Russian military night vision equipment from Radio Shack Unlimited.
I paid $300 for each of them.

One night, I got the idea of trying Kijiji online selling for the first time.
I posted the advertisement and within 20 minutes,
a guy was at my door with $800 in his hand, and I made my first sale.
$500 profit in the first 20 minutes, not bad... :?

So, as a true entrepreneur, I tried it again and again
until Radio Shack Unlimited ran out of Russian military night vision equipment. :(

So, then I decided to try eBay out for the first time
with my moniker as buy_sell and Life is Good.
I've been buying and selling items ever since.

It's like the thrill of the kill in sales terms. :D
Making money is not hard, but you have to find the market.

Years ago, my friend and I were selling PC clones.
We would buy computer components and assemble PCs.
My friend would focus on getting the parts and doing the sales.
I would focus on putting it all together and installing the software.
Our profit was $600 per PC. (Often 10 PCs per day).
There's nothing like sharing $6000 in profit at the end of the day.

LUCK is all around us. We simply have to recognize it, when we see it. 8-)
mad_monk wrote:
Thanks everyone. It was like ordering a pizza.

Mad Monk.

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