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<\/a><\/p>\nHunting devil strips is an acquired taste.\u00a0 Its hard.\u00a0 Its trashy, and passersby (I love that word as well; a rare English word that is infix inflected (anyone still working on gender inflected interjections? :))) are in your face from both sides.\u00a0 And, not only is it trashy, its brutally trashy.\u00a0 Did I mention that it is also trashy?\u00a0 But often you can get silver there when the adjacent area is dead, because some people miss them, and some people hate trashy.\u00a0 I remember one hunted out park that produced nothing but a rosie after hours and hours of hunting, and then in the short devil strip was a walker and a huge silver ring, so its always worth checking out if you can stomach the passersby and the trash.<\/p>\n
As for the “gold filled” ring, it claims to be 1\/20th of 10K, which I guess makes it .5K.\u00a0 If that ring were gold, it would be worth about $200, so I suppose its worth about $10.\u00a0 But, its someone’s wedding ring.\u00a0 It has names inscribed in it.\u00a0 Too bad they are common names, and there is no date.\u00a0 Last time I found one with names inscribed, one of the names was uncommon, and there was an exact date, and I still could not find the owner, despite all the research tools at my fingertips and at the historical society.\u00a0 The odds of me finding the owner are low, but we’ll see.<\/p>\n
So, I think that will be the last silver from this place, as all other areas tested dead, but I will give it one final farewell farewell hunt.\u00a0 After 65 silvers, I owe it that much.<\/p>\n
But, there’s more.\u00a0 Actually, there isn’t really.\u00a0 I should really write about the awesome Bad Religion concert Sunday night.\u00a0 It was the best concert I’ve ever been to (even better than when I saw them 6 or 7 years ago), but I don’t really have the skill, much less the time, to do so.\u00a0 One thing that was kinda weird tho was that some dude comes up to me and asks how old I am (and I am kinda old to be in a mosh pit and deal with crowd surfing, but I am in good shape and have been dealing with such for 30 years), and I tell him, and he says is friend is 33 and didn’t come cause he thought he was too old to go.\u00a0 Are you kidding me?\u00a0 The band has been making music that long.\u00a0 Get out and live.\u00a0 Never let your fear decide your fate (ok, I stole that line, but I like it).\u00a0 Awesome concert in any case.<\/p>\n
Well, we got some linguistics instead of the dismal science for a change.\u00a0 I guess I’m just an intellectual jack of all trades.\u00a0 Maybe next time we’ll throw in some particle physics.\u00a0 What is a Higgs boson anyway, and why to we care that its existence was recently (supposedly) confirmed?\u00a0 Isn’t all that stuff sort of obvious?\u00a0 Sort of like the collective yawn that occurred when the background microwave radiation was confirmed.\u00a0 Duh.\u00a0 (As an aside, I’m proud to have called that one when I was very young, we’ll before it was confirmed and while there were many theories out there that were inconsistent with its existence.\u00a0 Not that it ever did anything for me — look how I ended up, a slob writing a pseudo intellectual metal detecting blog that gets really excited about finding 60 year old shiny disks.\u00a0 But, there is always more to the story than meets the eye).<\/p>\n
Oh my, that was a bizarre entry.\u00a0 Should have spent more ink on the BR concert.\u00a0 But what is done is done; we don’t do morning edits anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I love that term, and I guess unless you are from Akron, Ohio, or are a linguistics freak, you may not know what it means.\u00a0 What it means is that strip of grass between the sidewalk and the road.\u00a0 Turns … Continue reading