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This semester is already becoming my favorite so far. I’m living in a house with my boys, I’m working out and feeling great, I’m doing decent in school, and my social circle has never been larger. As someone who struggled for the past year it’s great to finally be feeling good and optimistic. Let’s see how long it lasts.
I was tired yesterday and decided to take a nap instead of going to the NBA 2K19 release party somewhere in Fat City. 2 of my kids went, and they said there was free pizza, drinks and Xboxes to play and shit there. They also had door prizes. Because it wasn't really announced, there was only like 15 people there for multiple door prizes. We ended up taking a brand new high dollar Xbox controller as well as a brand new Xbox 1X. So yay for those two winning prizes, but boo for me being too tired to go out there and probably getting my ticket pulled as well. mfers.
My company's Internet has been breaking on and off for over a week. On day one, I investigated and said that the problem was AT&T. AT&T basically said I was crazy. After arguing with them almost daily since, today, AT&T finally agreed that I was right and based on my suggestions discovered a DDoS attack on their network and were able to fix it. They costed my company thousands of dollars, but I was right dammit!
My company's Internet has been breaking on and off for over a week. On day one, I investigated and said that the problem was AT&T. AT&T basically said I was crazy. After arguing with them almost daily since, today, AT&T finally agreed that I was right and based on my suggestions discovered a DDoS attack on their network and were able to fix it. They costed my company thousands of dollars, but I was right dammit!
I already did two reviews for them but last week I 'officialy' started with my internship for this music blog here and I got some amazing feedback from them after my first week. Said they think I'm doing great despite me not having followed any classic writing course or anything. They gave me some really great and mostly positive feedback, the negatives are ones I can easily get better over the course of just writing more and more I guess and being more handy with their writing program.
The hard and sometimes stressful moments (cuz deadlines) pay off, feels good man.
Today was the very first time I got to interview an artist for the release of a new record. I was so anxious, like I repeatedly told my friends I just didn't want to do it out of fear for fucking it up. But I got in, their PR manager introduced me to them, they made me very welcome and calm from the get-go which was good because I was so nervous. I barely had to check my notes for questions and afterwards they said they found it a very nice talk which completely made my day.
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Post by 3post1jack1 on Oct 12, 2018 15:01:09 GMT -5
About a month ago my mom became rapidly sick and was hospitalized. Short story she was in ICU and we thought she was going to die. She got to feeling better and got out of the hospital which was awesome, but there was a blockage in her pancreas which is scary as hell.
Finally got word back today that it is NOT cancer which is an amazing feeling. I teared up at work when I got the message.
She will still likely have to have surgery on her pancreas to get that thing out which is it's own kind of scary, but I'll take "not cancer" and be very happy about it!
everyone take care of yourselves and show someone you love that you love them today.
About a month ago my mom became rapidly sick and was hospitalized. Short story she was in ICU and we thought she was going to die. She got to feeling better and got out of the hospital which was awesome, but there was a blockage in her pancreas which is scary as hell.
Finally got word back today that it is NOT cancer which is an amazing feeling. I teared up at work when I got the message.
She will still likely have to have surgery on her pancreas to get that thing out which is it's own kind of scary, but I'll take "not cancer" and be very happy about it!
everyone take care of yourselves and show someone you love that you love them today.
That's wonderful news! Hope she's feeling 100% very soon.
My post earlier in the headliner thread had me thinking about mental health so I just wanted to bring it up in here. As some of you saw in the Grr thread around this time last year I was in a really, really bad place. I had a five month period where I could not win and felt absolutely hopeless.
But eventually, things got better. I moved on from baggage that was holding me back and began to go with the flow instead of forcing a path/image for myself. I got an amazing internship at a music festival where I was assured that I was pursuing the correct career. I forged better relationships and began to associate with people who made me happy.
Obviously I still have my bad days but I am happy to say that 2018 has been my least depressed year in a while. I still have the winter months ahead and those usually get kinda rough for me but I am not worried like I have been in past years. I have people around me who I know love me and much of my social anxiety has disappeared.
I also began drinking (in moderation) in late April this year. For those who don't know I had been pretty staunchly sober in regards to all substances. This was what I feel isolated me the most from my peers as I go to a large university and drinking is a huge part of the culture. I didn't drink for a reason I will not post on this forum but it is mentioned in my post in the headliner thread today. Deciding this was a big decision and I didn't take it lightly. It can be fine line between fun and dangerous and knowing my conditions I waited till I was in a better place to make this decision like this. Ultimately, I was tired of something that happened to me a half decade ago making me miserable and defining me. So I changed, and for some reason people trust me more now which I think is kinda dumb but whatever.
I am happy now. And to everyone who told me to keep going last year I am forever grateful. Things really do get better.
I'm down 15 pounds since July just through cutting down on junk food. I have started playing rec soccer so hopefully I can speed up the loss going forward.
I'm down 15 pounds since July just through cutting down on junk food. I have started playing rec soccer so hopefully I can speed up the loss going forward.
Congrats! So excited for you! Keep pushing, keep losing. It's important to have fun while you're doing it so it doesn't feel like work.
I've been sick all month and dropped another 7 lbs. Seeing as the goal is 25 before Feburary, I'll take it.
One of my favorite bands is reunitin’ AND puttin’ out a new album! Facing New York will play two reunion shows (split between LA and SF) and I’m so excited that I can’t stop lookin’ up flights fer the wife and I!
GRR though is that I don’t think we should really spend the money.
But fffuuuccckkk I wanna see this band live one last time in my life!
it's a good article that potentially illuminates what you are getting into.
My experience as a phish fan married to a non-phish fan is less extreme then the couple in the article. In the article it seems like he goes to whatever show he wants, on whatever holiday he wants, regardless of what his wife wants, regardless of the fact that they have a kid now. Balancing my relationship with my wife and Phish has been a series of compromises, and they are compromises that in the long run I've been happy to make, because I have a wife who I love and love to spend time with. A few examples of Phish and it's impact on our relationship:
1. The first compromise: when Melody and I got together Phish was broken up. They announced the Hampton reunion shows, a three night run. I wanted to go to all three nights, but Morrissey, who my wife and I both love, also announced a show in Atlanta the second night. So I flew to Hampton for the first show, then flew to Atlanta to meet my wife for Morrissey, missing the second and third Phish shows of the weekend. Then Morrissey cancelled a few hours before the show. This was upsetting, but in the long run I was at the only show that mattered, which was the first one. I saw the Fluffhead opener, still one of the best live music experiences of my life.
2. I was clear in my love for Phish to Melody. We sat down and had an honest conversation early in our relationship. She loves music and live music, but does not love Phish. I communicated that Phish was a huge part of my life, and that Phish fandom is a bit more obsessive than other music fandom. Seeing Phish live brings me so much joy, so there will be times when I have to run off and see Phish. Sometimes on Halloween, New Year's Eve, summer tour runs, etc. Melody was cool with it, she didn't want to stand in the way of something that makes me so happy, we just needed to make sure we balanced it right. But I recognize it is a sacrifice for her to sit at home while I run off and have a vacation, spending our money on personal experience.
3. I wasn't planning on going to Festival 8 on Halloween 2009, but when it was rumored they would be covering Genesis's "The Lamb Lays Down On Broadway", I told her two weeks before that I had to go. We had Halloween plans and I told her I just had to cancel them. She was cool about it, but I know it's not a super good thing to just cancel plans like that. Halloween is a big deal for Phish, but this is the only Phish Halloween I've ever been to, because Halloween is also a big deal for Melody (and we thereafter started a tradition of going to Voodoo that weekend anyway). Also Phish didn't end up covering "Lamb", but it was a wonderful experience anyway.
4. NYE is the highest holiest Phish holiday. For a while we did one NYE for me to run off to Phish, one NYE we spend together, and so on. Eventually I got my fill of NYE, and naturally stopped wanting to spend the time and money necessary to run off to MSG (or Miami) every other year, so for the past few years I've spent NYE at home with Melody, which is what I want to do.
5. In addition to Festival 8, I've also been to two other 3.0 Phish festivals: Superball and Magnaball. Both were peak experiences. I think I also caught additional standalone shows those summers.
6. When I went to Dicks year before last, Melody went with me. She didn't go to the shows, but we spent the days together in Denver going to Rocky Mtn National Park, eating, museums, etc. It was a great trip.
In the end, with lots of communication and respect for each others' needs, we seemed to have settled into a pattern of I do one Phish related thing a year, typically a 3 show run somewhere, and one solo festival a year, which has been Movement the past two years and Bonnaroo the years before that (Melody has zero interest in Movement or Bonnaroo). Of course we do other shows and/or festivals together. I'm happy with this arrangement, and it scratches the itch for me. I love Phish and will always love Phish, but since 2009, when I saw Phish ten times, my intense need to see as many shows as possible as waned, as it has with my crew, who are having kids and adulting a bit more. I've seen Phish 63 times, which isn't a ton by Phish fan standards, but I've caught every non-new song I want to hear live. I've attended every 3.0 Phish festival, multiple Phish NYEs, one Phish Halloween "costume set". I've seen Phish at 24 different venues in 22 different cities across 13 states. I will never stop seeing Phish until I'm physically unable to, or until they are physically incapable of playing. I don't think a year will pass without me catching some shows, it's just less intense of a drive as it used to be. This summer I'm excited to see Phish at Bonnaroo, and attend Movement, and that will likely be my two solo music trips for the year.
Having said that, I certainly have some friends that have not slowed down at all, and still pretty much catch shows on every tour, go to every Halloween, every NYE, etc.
I've seen Phish 63 times, which isn't a ton by Phish fan standards, but I've caught every non-new song I want to hear live. I've attended every 3.0 Phish festival, multiple Phish NYEs, one Phish Halloween "costume set". I've seen Phish at 24 different venues in 22 different cities across 13 states. I will never stop seeing Phish until I'm physically unable to, or until they are physically incapable of playing. I don't think a year will pass without me catching some shows, it's just less intense of a drive as it used to be. This summer I'm excited to see Phish at Bonnaroo, and attend Movement, and that will likely be my two solo music trips for the year.
it's a good article that potentially illuminates what you are getting into.
She is for sure dumping the dude if she just reads that article and not what you wrote. Give the guy a fighting chance!
For sure. I was hoping to start with a "worst case" scenario and then share my own story. I think I'm reasonable in my Phish fandom but I'm biased because I'm me.
it's a good article that potentially illuminates what you are getting into.
My experience as a phish fan married to a non-phish fan is less extreme then the couple in the article. In the article it seems like he goes to whatever show he wants, on whatever holiday he wants, regardless of what his wife wants, regardless of the fact that they have a kid now. Balancing my relationship with my wife and Phish has been a series of compromises, and they are compromises that in the long run I've been happy to make, because I have a wife who I love and love to spend time with. A few examples of Phish and it's impact on our relationship:
1. The first compromise: when Melody and I got together Phish was broken up. They announced the Hampton reunion shows, a three night run. I wanted to go to all three nights, but Morrissey, who my wife and I both love, also announced a show in Atlanta the second night. So I flew to Hampton for the first show, then flew to Atlanta to meet my wife for Morrissey, missing the second and third Phish shows of the weekend. Then Morrissey cancelled a few hours before the show. This was upsetting, but in the long run I was at the only show that mattered, which was the first one. I saw the Fluffhead opener, still one of the best live music experiences of my life.
2. I was clear in my love for Phish to Melody. We sat down and had an honest conversation early in our relationship. She loves music and live music, but does not love Phish. I communicated that Phish was a huge part of my life, and that Phish fandom is a bit more obsessive than other music fandom. Seeing Phish live brings me so much joy, so there will be times when I have to run off and see Phish. Sometimes on Halloween, New Year's Eve, summer tour runs, etc. Melody was cool with it, she didn't want to stand in the way of something that makes me so happy, we just needed to make sure we balanced it right. But I recognize it is a sacrifice for her to sit at home while I run off and have a vacation, spending our money on personal experience.
3. I wasn't planning on going to Festival 8 on Halloween 2009, but when it was rumored they would be covering Genesis's "The Lamb Lays Down On Broadway", I told her two weeks before that I had to go. We had Halloween plans and I told her I just had to cancel them. She was cool about it, but I know it's not a super good thing to just cancel plans like that. Halloween is a big deal for Phish, but this is the only Phish Halloween I've ever been to, because Halloween is also a big deal for Melody (and we thereafter started a tradition of going to Voodoo that weekend anyway). Also Phish didn't end up covering "Lamb", but it was a wonderful experience anyway.
4. NYE is the highest holiest Phish holiday. For a while we did one NYE for me to run off to Phish, one NYE we spend together, and so on. Eventually I got my fill of NYE, and naturally stopped wanting to spend the time and money necessary to run off to MSG (or Miami) every other year, so for the past few years I've spent NYE at home with Melody, which is what I want to do.
5. In addition to Festival 8, I've also been to two other 3.0 Phish festivals: Superball and Magnaball. Both were peak experiences. I think I also caught additional standalone shows those summers.
6. When I went to Dicks year before last, Melody went with me. She didn't go to the shows, but we spent the days together in Denver going to Rocky Mtn National Park, eating, museums, etc. It was a great trip.
In the end, with lots of communication and respect for each others' needs, we seemed to have settled into a pattern of I do one Phish related thing a year, typically a 3 show run somewhere, and one solo festival a year, which has been Movement the past two years and Bonnaroo the years before that (Melody has zero interest in Movement or Bonnaroo). Of course we do other shows and/or festivals together. I'm happy with this arrangement, and it scratches the itch for me. I love Phish and will always love Phish, but since 2009, when I saw Phish ten times, my intense need to see as many shows as possible as waned, as it has with my crew, who are having kids and adulting a bit more. I've seen Phish 63 times, which isn't a ton by Phish fan standards, but I've caught every non-new song I want to hear live. I've attended every 3.0 Phish festival, multiple Phish NYEs, one Phish Halloween "costume set". I've seen Phish at 24 different venues in 22 different cities across 13 states. I will never stop seeing Phish until I'm physically unable to, or until they are physically incapable of playing. I don't think a year will pass without me catching some shows, it's just less intense of a drive as it used to be. This summer I'm excited to see Phish at Bonnaroo, and attend Movement, and that will likely be my two solo music trips for the year.
Having said that, I certainly have some friends that have not slowed down at all, and still pretty much catch shows on every tour, go to every Halloween, every NYE, etc.
Thanks, dude! We have already discussed the fact that I don't have to go to phish shows if I don't want to. I've been to one, but my lackluster time was more to blame with the company than the band. So, I'm willing to go and give it another shot.
Thanks, dude! We have already discussed the fact that I don't have to go to phish shows if I don't want to. I've been to one, but my lackluster time was more to blame with the company than the band. So, I'm willing to go and give it another shot.
cool! easy solution: make the relationship work another seven months then go to Bonnaroo together. you can see Phish together but also enjoy other acts and experiences.
Yesterday I had a call (cause the original plan of interviewing him didn't work out) with Charles from White Lies, was stressed and anxious the whole day about it (stupid maybe, cause "it's just a call" I guess) but it went well I think. He's a very talkative and friendly dude, excited for people to hear their next release called 'Five' cause I think it's a huge step forward in comparison to what 'Friends' was. Another step forward taken into this music journaling thing, made me feel very happy and relieved so..
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Post by Tainted Opossum on Dec 4, 2018 17:20:07 GMT -5
I won a pair of PG 2.5 Playstations in a raffle, got them today. I am pretty damn excited. I think I'm going to put them on the shelf until the PS5 comes out, break them out for the right reason. I don't care if I am 30, the sneaker game grows.
I won a pair of PG 2.5 Playstations in a raffle, got them today. I am pretty damn excited. I think I'm going to put them on the shelf until the PS5 comes out, break them out for the right reason. I don't care if I am 30, the sneaker game grows.
I know some mfers that in the last couple of years are living off of dealing mostly shoes. It’s a weird place, but if you get in line early, there’s always someone willing to pay you a couple hundred over what you pay for the exclusives. Then again, I thought maybe you were cheering the Panthers firing some defensive coaches.
