For me:
24 - MTV
26 - Nickelodeon
27 - ESPN
39 - Cartoon Network
43 - Spike TV
51 - Animal Planet
61 - Discovery Channel
When my parents got HBO, I think it started at channel 300
My maternal grandfather passed two weeks ago but never had any official will spelled out. He just had various bank accounts and such that he left for my mom mainly to have to deal with and get transferred to her ownership when he passed. We have his death certificates now and she's going to work on getting access to his accounts.
But assuming she manages to get whatever money he left for me to me, what would be my best option for it? What kind of account should I put it in? Should I spend any of it?
Seems like whenever my last day of high school was, there were so many of my classmates crying or at least being like “I’ll miss ya bro”. But for me, I knew I wasn’t gonna miss any of them. Didn’t really hate anyone at school or have any bullies. I just wasn’t close with anyone in my class. Didn’t have any friends either of course. But I’m just wondering if any of you looked forward to the end of high school and loved that you wouldn’t have to see any of them again and go back.
I live in the northeastern US and our summers can get pretty humid where I live. Like being in the jungles of Vietnam. As for my bedroom, it can stay pretty cool when the air conditioner runs and the windows are closed. So I'm just wondering, given wood tends to expand in these conditions, how my guitars might be affected. I have a Yamaha acoustic and a Fender Strat for reference.
He passed about 1:30 am last Monday in hospice. He was in the hospital the whole week prior for pneumonia/RSV. The whole family was in agreement that him being in hospice for his last few hours instead of being put on a ventilator is what he would’ve wanted. He was in pain a bit when we initially go up to the hospice unit, but they quickly got him started on morphine and he was semi lucid, trying to talk with us. Even got to say hi to my brother and his son via video call before slowly kind of drifting off like he was taking a nap.
I’m happy the funeral arrangements went good and he had a lot of people come to his viewing (even his old neighbors that he would dog sit for when they would go out of town came to see him). But that whole week, I was more or less okay. Even this week, I had times where I wasn’t thinking about him. But last night I got high and, while I didn’t go full breakdown like Kim, I got close and feel embarrassed even writing about it.
Sorry if this doesnt belong here. Just wanted to get that off my chest.
Found and sent this to my dad recently and he went into a flow state of reminiscing about being at this show with his friends. He of course remembers Bon Scott carrying Angus on his shoulders but also said “It was a fucking riot. I don’t know how I got out of there”. He would’ve been 16. What’re some of yinz’ favorite shows you’ve been to either downtown or at other venues like Star Lake or elsewhere?
I just have never really "clicked" with people. I can hold a conversation, sure. But anything beyond a surface-level interaction is something I've never really been good at going past. Never really trusted people that deeply to warrant having them in my life besides my family. And so my desire for joining a band is basically zero. And yet, it seems like getting together and making music is THE THING that draws people to their respective instrument. But for me, putting stage fright on top of all my other qualities would probably not be a good idea and would only serve to embarrass me.
So I'm wondering if I just go my guitar journey basically alone and teach myself through courses and youtube videos, is this keeping me from becoming a good player and that I'll always come off as a beginner or, at the very least, intermediate because I couldn't connect with people and play with others? Or is it not that important?
This is Wish You Were Here. I’ve been playing four months and if I were to try playing the Verse 1 bar right now, you’d think I just picked up the guitar today. That’s what it feels like. Because even if I go through that bar 20 times, the second I put it to a beat, I fall apart. Even at the slowest possible speed I fuck it up. Hell, it took me until last week to figure out what the downstroke and upstroke symbols were since it doesn’t tell you and I basically had to find out through Google.
I’ve been using a learning app by Gibson that basically holds your hand and takes you through very simple tab forms akin to Guitar Hero, but with you actually playing a song. Sure they’re short but it at least gets me playing. I can reach my goals each day on that app quite easily. But when I try opening Songsterr and look for a song I like, it feels like going into a labyrinth blindfolded.
And yet, I chose this song not just because I love it, but because people say “It’s such an easy song! I learned it in like two months you’ll be fine!”. Well like I said, it’s not that easy for me and I feel like a moron for it not being easy. Like I should be able to form some of those shapes without looking at this point, but I can’t. And I can’t split my eyeballs so there’s that.
Sorry if this turned into a rant. Just not having a good day with this
My drinking I would say was teetering right on the edge of being a problem where I could end up in rehab. Binge drinking for me didn’t necessarily mean getting drunk 24/7. Just at least a buzz, especially during work (I WFH) and then, once I clocked out Friday, all bets were off and there was a good chance I’d get drunk if I didn’t have something planned the next day.
Don’t know why exactly I decided to cut back on my drinking. Maybe it’s cause I’m 30 and feel like I need to get myself together. Just trying not to 🎶go ridin’ on that long black train🎶 for a while as the song goes