Jim Bauer

@porwest (111718)

United States • Age 52

Joined myLot 7 years ago

Just a simple guy with nothing better to do than to waste a little time with my myLot friends. Dabble in some music here and there, and just lead a simple life.

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Jim Bauer's Discussions

A Boring Christmas?

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 26 Dec

A boring Christmas day? Well, I guess it depends on how one defines that. We have our actual Christmas gathering with the fam, which we will be hosting at our house, on the 10th of January, so yesterday was just a "regular" day...

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Merry Christmas myLot

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 25 Dec

It would be wrong of me, of course, to forego the obligatory Merry Christmas post. So, here's mine. Merry Christmas to you and yours here on myLot! We will have our actual get together with the fam on the 10th of January,...

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$6.50

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 24 Dec

It turns out my headphones (or monitors as I call them—musicians will know what I mean) went kaput. In fact, it's a kaput I have never seen before. The jack end came off. Literally. Inside an adaptor I was using on another...

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Only 997 to Go

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 24 Dec

It was kind of funny to me. The other day my wife asked me how my YouTube channel, Synthetic Echoes, was doing. "I only need 997 more subscribers to even be able to think to have a shot to monetize," I told her. She...

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This is When Things Get a Little Crazy

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 23 Dec

Well, here we are again, facing a massive, and I mean massive, jackpot for the Powerball multi-state lottery. It's currently sitting at $1.7 billion. And as things generally go, when it strikes, it's likely going to go to a...

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Will it Click? Or I Guess the Better Question is Will They?

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 28 Nov

It's not my first rodeo, as they say, dabbling a bit with YouTube. All said, I have three channels. None of them are monetized, and so far, none of them are "successful." But I also can't say any of them were [i]endeavors of...

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Down $25

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 27 Nov

We decided to take a run over to the Casino Queen in East St. Louis and spend an hour or two, just for kicks and grins. It was really dead there, which was great, since there was virtually no competition to get on a machine. I...

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Happy Turkey Day Y'All

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 27 Nov

To all those who are actually having their Thanksgiving dinner on Thanksgiving Day, happy Thanksgiving—happy Thanksgiving to anyone not having a Thanksgiving dinner today as well. We will have our gathering on the 29th, and...

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Ah, Screw It

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 26 Nov

That's what you just have to say, sometimes. Screw it. I have back issues and have for years now. Something that only gets progressively worse unfortunately. The joys of aging? Or perhaps the pains due from a lifetime of...

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A Little Reggae

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 25 Nov

That's the vibe. Reggae. I suppose, when I wrote this little ditty back in 2005, that's the vibe I was going for. But of course, hearing the original one would not exactly hear a reggae thing, but maybe a sad attempt at some hip...

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I Call it Dirty Rice

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 25 Nov

It's not really "dirty rice," at least not in the traditional sense, but whatever you might call in "real life," all I can say is that it's good eats, and in the end, whatever it might be named, that's really all that matters,...

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Evelyn Jenner

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 23 Nov

Okay. I know this will get old here. But you'll just have to bear with me. When I get on something, I get on it. Just look back at my posts on money or politics. Hmm. So, the AI thing, right? I've been talking about that...

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Towed and Stowed for the Season

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 23 Nov

Well, that's it. The camper is in hibernation until next year. A couple of weekends ago we towed it to Camping World about an hour away to have it winterized, and just yesterday we went and picked it up, and now it's back in...

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Where Have I Been Hiding?

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 22 Nov

I am quite behind here lately. Granted, many might be like, "Porwest who?" I will be doing some catching up. Maybe tomorrow. We'll see. Of course, as you all know, I have been playing around with AI a bit. It's got my creative...

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I'm Fine Part Two and Final

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 18 Nov

When you are a guy like me, someone who writes songs, does not have a band, and isn't as versed as some in the art of mixing and mastering music to a "radio quality" standard, and who really just makes music as a hobby, AI is a...

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Ack and Ugh and Fttt,Fttt

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 18 Nov

I hate outages. On servers. At websites. They are just really annoying because obviously you use certain sites because you want to, or because you have something to "do" there. It really disrupts the "workflow," so to...

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I'm Fine Part One

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 17 Nov

This will be a two parter. Well, it has to be since there are two audio files, and I can only link to one at a time. The limits of myLot, I suppose. But here's the deal. I have been playing around a little bit with AI for...

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Orange They Good? Yeah, Me Thinks So

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 16 Nov

Knock, knock." "Who's there?' "Orange." "Orange, who?" "Orange you glad I'm not writing another preachy money post or political diatribe?" Or, for that matter writing comments equivalent to...

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Why I Do What I Do. No, Really, It's the Why

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 16 Nov

I can't count the times I stood on the production line beside someone grumbling about how much they hated their job. "Why not find one you'd actually enjoy?" I'd ask. "I can't afford to quit," they'd reply. That always stuck...

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I Got it at the Flea Market Yesterday

Jim Bauer @porwest (111718) • United States 16 Nov

I don't normally buy money, but I do keep some bills and coins from time to time that I find interesting, or that were given to me. I have mentioned about those a few times here, including a 1950s $5 silver certificate that my...

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