my dress code: sweat pants, sweat shirt with a hood. last time i wore a tie: high school debate team. oh wait, a wedding i went to 7 years ago. i keep it classy.

Where were you when I needed you? We shall get sushi and play a donkament or two.

Hey, all. Happy winter. Texas sure has weather. I'm trying out another year without a jacket, but since it's already been below freezing a few times and I walk 20 minutes to and from work, this could be a challenge this time around.

I've been searching for a singer and I finally met two of them. They are both pretty darn good, but one dropped due to creative differences, I guess. To be honest, that wasn't going to work out very well. I only met the other once, but it was good improvised creativity, so happy about that, and we will hopefully be working together again soon, and even better, making a presence in Austin.

Also found a good jamming buddy. He is also a non-singing guitarist, but ****, when we click and manage to follow each other, the stuff is truly beautiful and amazing. Somehow, we end up just playing the same notes at the same time, harmonizing perfectly, and all that... er, jazz. He's jazz and I'm classical, lol. We're both music theory nuts, so I guess that's how it works out.

Been looking to build up a new project. I've found that I can't find any good singular places for music resources, like scales, modes, learning to read sheet music, etc. There are dowloadable programs, but they are kind of expensive and I'm wondering why there isn't a web-based resource for this kind of stuff.

And... I've been slowing down on posting on the forums. I've come to the conclusion that 11 years and change is a really long time. I've also had a metric ****-ton of crazy experiences over the past year, some involving friends who sort of ended up being pen pals and I just don't feel fulfilled by online-only people anymore. I guess I'm just saying I want to challenge myself to move onto other things, get out more, and just spend time focusing on my life and what goals I'm young enough to accomplish.

I've been thinking of this for a long time. I guess the politics thread was the final straw for me. I'm sorry that it turned into a toxic sludge. I'm not sure if the ship righted itself since I haven't looked at it at all after my last post in it. I just didn't want to read the responses and didn't care either way, to be honest. Overall, I just don't have anything more to say, I guess, but ****, I like all of you. Everyone I met from this forum has been cooler in person than online.

Maybe not exactly a goodbye, but definitely a notice of seeing me a lot less.

It's going to be another in a string of 80+ degree days here in sunny Miami Beach. (82 to be exact.) But I'll get a taste of winter over the next few weeks as I head to Berlin on Saturday and then on to Prague and Austria for Xmas & New Years. Fortunately, I still have some winter clothes left over from when I lived in DC.

Hi Dave!

I was wondering where you went. I missed you! Certainly can understand the need to take a break from the forum. Online forums are addictive but let's face it they really are not productive in any meaningful way. When I stopped posting I was able to complete my master's degree. So just think what you can accomplish if you get off the forum. That said, I don't want you to leave us. You've always been one of the nicest people I've met online. You have never been mean to anyone and you understand a lot about forum behavior.

I miss you in the politics thread. It's been a good thread for the Lounge. Don't let that one poster in the US Elections thread run you off.

dT,
Good for you.
If you feel inclined, drop back in with an update.

let him know that real farmers dont get up to alarm clocks and wake up naturally at dawn if they so choose.

and of course they add cream to their coffee before going to work.

Don't post it on the internet.

Worth an A+. Chutzpah and all that.

haha, I have that Lounge politard thread on dkgoblock and had forgotten it existed.

Dom,

We won't rat you out for posting.

My comment: try using your talent to explore the sorts of situations real people encounter, and you might, just possibly, be taken seriously.

lol...okay, now that you've seen it, feel free to nuke it, John! Just had to show you guys.

Cows smell. Bad.

That story will come back to haunt Dom at some point.

And for Christ's sake, someone delete it before Katy sees it.

Smell like money!!!

Sounds like a normal morning in northern Wisconsin.

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on these non winter days we are having, it looks to be minus -17 or worse in my town tonight. plus even lower wind chill factors. // only good thing about it is that fishwhenican will be having a colder night at his place than mine. makes it seem so much warmer for me.

some spots in montana are looking at -30 or below with big winds. actually the whole state will be an average over 20 below zero with wind chills around 50 below in many spots.
this is a FYI post, not to be confused with a b.s. post.

Thanks Ray, Glad that makes you feel better, Lol. Going to be a ****ty weekend for weather for sure. Thankfully it is doing it now and should be backed off by Monday for me to escape this "Late Fall Wonderland".

Spots are for dogs, Ray. Locations is a better word. But we all understand. Except John and Dominic who can't understand rural redneck. They still love you though.

Hey, my Mom is from rural redneck! And I got other family in them parts, as well.

dom i know you want to be a country guy but to be a country guy you have to have some knowledge of the country life.
so without any help from the peanut gallery or google, if your cow gets caught in the barb wire fence and is mooing, and all your ducks are around him ready to get stepped on, what is it about.

I'm going to assume it's some weird, S&M bovine/fowl sex thing.

I mean, I can only go off my own experiences, right?

so you lost.. too bad i was hoping for you to be a real country person.

the answer is obvious.-- you have quackers and milk


i told you it was winter and cold up here.

Thanks for the kind words, Katy. I've always considered you the nice center of this forum. It comes across as genuine to me.

But yeah, it isn't that I haven't gained incredible insight and useful / useless knowledge from this forum. I'm really just looking to scale back my entire online presence, which admittedly isn't much. Makes one wonder where all the other posters went unannounced, huh?

I'm not sure what I will accomplish when I'm gone. I've just had a rough year and a lot of things came to a head, all for the worse as far as I can tell. I actually did something I never did in my life: stop and do absolutely nothing. It was a strange getting used to that affair, but I just sat there an let myself think and not push and push. I think I gained a lot of valuable insight into myself and life from doing exactly... nothing. Nothing at all. I didn't study, didn't play guitar, didn't talk to anyone. I went to work and that was only to pay the bills (now I'm sounding like Office Space).

Strange, it took a whopping 38 years to simply sit down and just ponder life and stuff for more than 5 minutes, and figure out where it all went sideways, figure out what I am in this world, and figure out some truths about people. I guess reflection takes more than 5 minutes of intense self-focus after all. Should definitely try it if you never had. The first week was seriously uncomfortable, but I suppose I can understand, just a little bit, why people like to sit on the beach and do nothing but stare at the horizon. Not sure if I'll ever actually do that, but it's interesting to wonder what it would be like to be capable of doing that from birth.

Some things have to come good, and I guess I've come to some odd realizations that may or may not align with reality. I'll figure that one out soon enough, I suppose!

It's all about breaking out of the comfort zone, if you get that. ugh... way over personal, I guess, but who cares, right?

Eh, I didn't really care about the stupid debates I was having. I was kind of taken off guard at how different we all are based on our unique upbringings. It did show me that a universe exists that I never was able to grasp completely (a prior experience this year really awoke this feeling, but I'll not get into that here).

It gave me valuable insight into that "other land" that is so hard to fathom and understand at times. I haven't spoken much about my upbringing and background here, and that's kind of the dissonance. Experience creates a sense of magnitude in all of us, and it's kind of nice to acknowledge that magnitudes don't always have to sit on the extremes.

I probably will, lol. Nostalgia takes hold of all of us at times.

Yes, still love Ray despite his bourgeois language. And some people think I'm a pretentious prick.