If you have the means to rip down from larger sizes you can sometimes find exotic woods cheap by scrapping furniture "too nice to toss out, but no one wanted" at goodwill or similar thrift stores.

Additionally you could go into consignment stores and talk to them about folks who erroneously bring in broken furniture they cannot sell back to the public, you might get for very cheap.


you know what they say: "One man's junk...something something Treasure".

By Terry O'Carroll (Terryoc) on Wednesday, July 03, 2024 - 03:06 pm: Edit

It's 4 July in Australia, so happy independence day to those who celebrate. Please remember to celebrate safely and don't blow yourselves up with fireworks.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Thursday, July 04, 2024 - 12:51 pm: Edit

Have a happy and safe USA Independence Day!!



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Garth L. Getgen
MSgt, USAF (ret)

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Friday, July 05, 2024 - 06:06 pm: Edit

What you are looking for are "offcuts" from a custom woodworker.

You know; the people that make fancy furniture.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Friday, July 05, 2024 - 07:36 pm: Edit

We had a splendid experience, watching the fireworks in Hannibal, Missouri from the widow's walk atop Rockcliffe Mansion. It really can't be beat.

By David Jannke (Bigslowtarget) on Saturday, July 06, 2024 - 01:56 pm: Edit

Hey Garth just sent you an email on the wood for wands. My dad put together a big collection and I'd be glad to provide you some at trivial or no cost (paying shipping would be cool).

I'll email pictures. If you don't get them in a few days your spam filter ate my email.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, July 06, 2024 - 03:24 pm: Edit

Thank you, but I have yet to see any emails. I checked the Webmail site and found nothing there, either.

However, that allowed me to discover that Yahoo pre-filters spam on the Webmail, so I never see it on my POP3 downloads. Sadly, (1) it filters out things I want to see and (2) there doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off. I use Thunderbird, which has a perfectly adequate spam filter built-in, one that I can easily customize to my liking. Thanks, Cox Cable for switching to a *bleep* email server.

At any rate, David, I sent you an email to david-at-jennke-dot-com to give you something to reply to, just in case you misspelled my email address.


Garth L. Getgen

By Ken Kazinski (Kjkazinski) on Saturday, July 27, 2024 - 10:23 am: Edit

I am trying to find some of the other newsletter type publications. I thought I read there was one published in the UK but I have not been able to find any copies.

Anyone know where I can find them or have copies they would be willing to get rid of?

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Saturday, July 27, 2024 - 12:01 pm: Edit

I'm not aware of one that was UK exclusive. To the best of my knowledge, the sum total of such has been:

Starletter: #1-#92
Star Fleet Times: #1-#50
Subspace News: #1-#6
Communique: #1-#168
Hailing Frequencies: Jan 2007 - Apr 2024
Star Blog: Oct 2006 - Feb 2020

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 09:12 pm: Edit

Nexus had some SFB content way back in the day.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Thursday, August 01, 2024 - 12:34 pm: Edit

Yes, I remember looking at one issue that SVC had submitted a scenario to them, and read it in a now closed FLGS.

Not sure how you would go back to determine how much and what was published.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Thursday, August 01, 2024 - 02:14 pm: Edit

Yup. I left Nexus and Captain's Log out of the list, as they're full magazines rather than newsletters.

By Douglas Saldana (Dsal) on Thursday, August 01, 2024 - 02:21 pm: Edit

SVC was the editor for all SFB content in Nexus. All of the issues are for sale digitally, with the table of contents for each issue available as a preview page.

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Thursday, August 01, 2024 - 05:31 pm: Edit

IIRC all the Nexus stuff was later ported over into other products (ADB controlled). Something like "the best of Nexus?"

By Douglas Saldana (Dsal) on Thursday, August 01, 2024 - 06:22 pm: Edit

I think some of the fiction was never republished. Some other stuff was updated and republished for Commander's Edition but didn't find its way into later editions.

By Mike Grafton (Mike_Grafton) on Friday, August 02, 2024 - 09:21 am: Edit

Sounds like an ADB product idea!

By Nick Samaras (Koogie) on Sunday, August 11, 2024 - 05:57 pm: Edit

Wasn't there an Australian version of Starletter?

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Saturday, August 17, 2024 - 01:27 pm: Edit

I got back home at midnight last night. I was away for a week for a class for work. Thursday, I notice my phone was blowing up (in vibrate mode), so I checked. My wife was sending me photos of the tree in the front yard ... two main trunks split off and fell into a drive way. He car lost a mirror and other damage. My car has a nasty dent in the hood. My guess: $1500 - $2000 for my car, $4000-$4500 for hers. Good thing I have full-coverage insurance. Still going to have a ton of out-of-pocket expense. The tree guy I always use quoted $2500 to take the whole tree down, including stump grinding.


Garth L. Getgen

By Norman Dizon (Ichaborn) on Saturday, August 17, 2024 - 08:19 pm: Edit

Same thing happened to someone I know. Old dead tree in the front yard fell over one day and totaled his car. He wasn't ready for the unexpected expense to replace it.

He learned that dead trees can fall over anytime (and should be removed) unlike living trees which are much more likely to stay upright.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Saturday, August 17, 2024 - 09:49 pm: Edit

Boss I had as a security guard in 2008,
bought a new Jeep, night before they were
to come out and put up his metal car cover,
tree fell and crushed the roof.....

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, August 18, 2024 - 12:05 am: Edit

This wasn't a dead tree. It was a box-elder ash about thirty-five feet tall. When my wife and her best friend planted it, they promised me it was a bush that would get maybe seven or eight foot tall.


Garth L. Getgen

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Sunday, August 18, 2024 - 12:14 am: Edit

I heard a news story a couple months ago about something similar, but when the tree fell, it crushed a kid.

Car damage is... Unpleasant... But if nobody was hurt (and I very much hope nobody was), then the problem is something that could have been SO much worse

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Sunday, August 18, 2024 - 07:52 am: Edit

>. that would get maybe seven or eight foot tall

doh!

--Mike

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Sunday, August 18, 2024 - 03:36 pm: Edit

Garth:

Did you get it in writing?

By Joseph Jackson (Bonneville) on Thursday, August 22, 2024 - 08:03 pm: Edit

I'd just like to take a moment and offer up a message thankfulness for this, a summer of gratitude. Campy, I know. It's like this:
My dad, who lives in a one traffic light town, all but collapsed in his living room earlier this year. Me mum was able to get him to the local ER, where he promptly went into cardiac arrest.
4 broken ribs and a lifeflight to the city later, it was determined he had a vicious blood infection and an inadequate pacemaker. It was touch and go for some time.
While that was happening, my elder brother passed out in his yard and soon learned he had a nasty heart defect needing imediate resolution.
During recovery from a 8 hour open heart surgery, he suffered a massive stroke. While running tests on him for all that, they found cancer in his kidneys.
Frankly, we'd wrote off the both of them. It didn't look good.
Two weeks ago, my brother, a real car geek, showed the first serious improvement he's show in some time. He decided (without telling anyone) that he'd drive the car around the block. And he did! His wife made him do it again to get it on video. The look of satisfaction on his face . . . there are no words.
After another surgery, they have declared him cancer free. Probably won't get his driver's license back anytime soon though.
My dad has a new pacemaker and crashed his tractor into a tree and fell into his rock garden. Would have got away with it too, if he hadn't been all bloody and bruised up for dinner.
So all is well. What's more is, on Sunday, we threw a big party for my wife. All the kids and grandkids where there, with some close friends, too. You see, she has officially retired and it is well earned.
Campy it may be, but I must shout from the rooftops my gratitude! My dad and brother are well and fast recovering, my wife has a new job--full time grandma.
On top of all that, it's good to see Mr.Cole and Mr. Petrick recovering. For anyone else going thru hard times I wish you well.
Thanks for letting me rant and rave. I simply could not contain myself, I had to share my good news.