Hoping All Is Well With You:

Today has been a good day. I have just sold two guitars, two fairly expensive pedals and also a few other bits and bobs (a pickguard, knobs, switch tips etc). A few days ago I also sold some guitar parts and a pedal. In total it was enough money to buy my first "proper" vintage guitar. I'm not going to reveal what it is until I get it, but I've been gasing for one of these for a long time, and I think it is really cool... It has a couple of "blemishes", but sounds great. The "blemishes" are, of course, what made it affordable for me.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Just my thoughts for you, gahr. I was reading about your injury while I was on vacation. Hope it all heals up really soon and you are back to good health on your feet again really soon. Congrats on the vintage piece.
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Thanks, Chili. I'm slowly but surely getting better. It's mostly boring, not much pain unless walk around a lot or bend the foot too much. Probably starting some physic next week. Plenty of time for guitar stuff though, and that's never bad.:D
 
I am running a bit late for my usual morning ritual of coffee and toast at 4:30am. I always enjoy reading the latest posts herein during that time.

I've come to realize that I tend to post too many things - things that although I find to be of considerable interest - are likely not at all interesting to others.

I pondered that this morning for a while as i looked back at my many posts, about a certain tone or nuance, or other subtlety, likely not even recognizable to others.

Lately, I've had to deal with some very unpleasant things and it's kind of changed how I see things. In some ways, perhaps, this has been a good thing I believe.

The brainy, nerdy, bespectacled who wanted to tell everyone at school what he learned about nuclear fission from his extensive reading of every book he could lay his hands upon, is still very much alive and well....only his subject matter has changed.

Since Quinten has returned to live with his mother, I now have a great deal more time and flexibility than I had previously and yet I have been turning down new musical opportunities right and left.

One local band has been texting me daily - for nearly a month - to join them as a bassist. They just lost a drummer to a heart attack and a bassist to a stroke, but it really is hard for me to.play music I don't love, even though the money is really good.

I don't need the money - as in my bills might go unpaid if I didn't take the gig - but I enjoy making money just the same.

So, I find myself in a position where I see no real reason not to accept pending offers and use the newfound spare time I have for something other than recording silly out-of-phase tone comparisons and filling up an entire subgroup on the forum with uninteresting tone samples describing some hidden subtlety.

I think my biggest hinderence is that I don't like playing country, blues and the old 1960's covers and that's what's on the table right now. The rock-n-roll gigs are becomming more scarce these days, around here...other than the private parties anyways.

With respect to the original band I'm currently in, I'm actually growing tired of writing and recording original material because I miss performing and there is such insane emphasis on perfection that I don't know if we will ever be finished with this material.

Anyways, you guys may be hearing a lot less from me if I accept some of these offers, but even that isn't really a bad thing.

Happy Holidays to you all...
 
Dude, DO NOT feel bad about "spamming" us with your posts. I for one love reading them.

While I envy you all your offers to join bands (and even earn money from it), I think you are right in going with the music you really feel like playing.

And how is Quinten doing?
 
Gahr said:
Dude, DO NOT feel bad about "spamming" us with your posts. I for one love reading them.

While I envy you all your offers to join bands (and even earn money from it), I think you are right in going with the music you really feel like playing.

And how is Quinten doing?
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Quinten seems to be doing very well and I'm happy to know that, although I do miss him a lot sometimes....
 
Goldmember said:
Don't stop postin', Rockin' Robert! I even appreciate when you share your U-Boat/Silent Hunter experiences!
Any chance there's a Mac copy of SH?
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I'm not sure!

When I bought SH4 in 2011, I didn't have enough RAM & video resolution to run it. It was almost two years before i could play it. Then I started a campaign that I've been working on nearly 4 years.

Playing at 100% realism, I've nearly lost my boat numerous times.

Once we were attacked by aircraft off Fremantle and we sustained damage that prevented us from submerging any more than about 60 feet or the flooding could not be controlled. It took nearly two weeks (in real time) to navigate back to our fleet headquarters in Batavia.

In the campaign currently, we are in January, 1945, so we don't have much time left.

For the most part I submerge deep and allow destroyers to pass over, then come shallow and attack ships at close range. I jave successfully "hidden" next to ships I had just sunk, staying motionless for many hours.

In shallow water, I usually engage the destroyers head-on and eliminate them before attacking the convoy.

My character is up to over 1,000,000 tons sunk now...

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It's interesting to look at those tonnage scores and recall actually talking with "Silent Otto" and Erich Topp about their exploits on numerous occasions.

I also spoke frequently with CommanderRheinhard Hardegen of U-123, who passed away in June 2018 at 105.
 
Don't know how I missed this thread.
Funny how connected I feel to folks here I have never met.
Nice to share with y'all.

Keep on keepin' on; keep on truckin'; you know how it goes; dont know if I'll cry, don't know if I'll die... laughing.
Take care of life's responsibilities but carve out a bit of time for your selves to appreciate and enjoy being alive, every day if you can.
I complained in the past about finances or politics or whatever, but dont much anymore; I try to make the best lemonade I can out of lemons, as they say.
That's why they call it the blues?

Dealing with the bad but focusing on the good, I try.
That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Had a real nice play session tonight: rumbling, bumbling and stumbling my way, struggling with skills but expressing my soul and smiling.
 
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