GUESS WHAT MOTHERFUCKERS MY VISA IS COMING TODAY OR TOMORROW IT DEPENDS BUT UH YEAH GOOD TIMES Update: GOT MY PASSPORT COOL VISA INSIDE NOW PLANNING MY ROUTE THE FUCK OUT OF RUSSIA Update 2: Boarding the bus into Helsinki in two hours. Probably will not update y'all when I get to my hotel in Brussels. Probably the morning after. Today is gonna be a long day... literally. Thank you for all the support.
Update 3: GUESS WHOS IN EUROPE NOW BITCHEEEEEEES
Update 4, final: In a hotel. Dead tired. But in a hotel. Two time zones, three countries, four modes of transportation later – and I am a free man.
Head down. Humble. Don't say any more than what you were asked. Get through the border into the EU, and THEN celebrate. DO NOT look happy about this at any point prior to being completely within EU territory with all the necessary stamps... Good luck, my friend. The light at the end of the tunnel is here.
Thank you. Cannot wait to get that existential vitamin D.
Congrats man! Hope you're already sitting happy in Brussels
Not yet, but I'm well on my way there. Every part of the journey is booked and accounted for. And you bet your behind I'll be sitting happy in Brussels the moment I land there. :D
Job interview tomorrow. Wish me luck, Hubski.
You don't need luck. You'll kick ass all the same.
Sounds like advice from a guy who's still high after getting his visa to the EU finalised! (congrats btw)
Nah. You just gotta believe in yourself. Whatever the result of your job interview, you are not the person being interviewed. You are you, and the person being interviewed is just a small part of it. If it works out? Great. I'll raise a glass for you. If not? You gotta keep going. But I'm sure you're gonna kick ass, so disregard all of the above.
Woah... how many positions does that switch have? I think the math says there could be ... 300 -something different settings? Each pickup can be a Split/Single coil, and every permutation of the three switches... How heavy is it? The body seems "thunderbird-large"...? Does it balance well on the strap? What types of pickups do you have in it?
It's pretty ridiculous, actually. It's a 5-way blade switch that operates like a normal one: bridge; bridge-middle; middle; middle-neck; neck. Then the mini toggle kills one of the coils so you can have humbuckers or singles (all or nothing, though...not enough room on the control plate for 3 individual switches). But the kicker is that the volume knob is also a push pull that activates the bridge pickup in any position, so that you can have bridge-neck or all three simultaneously. The push-pull pot was sort of gratuitous, but the reason it's on there is that I try to buy everything used when I do a build. I found a set of Seymore Duncans that I like ('59 in the neck and TB-4 bridge) that came with the wiring harness, as well. And one of the pots was a push-pull, so I had to figure out something to do with it. That was the best I could think of, the thing that would make it the most versatile. Middle pickup is a Dimarzio Super 2, also bought used, though high end pickups hold their value remarkably well--only get about a 20% discount over brand new. The body is based on a "Telemaster", Fender's mashup of a Jazzmaster and Telecaster, but there's no weight relief or contouring, so it's pretty heavy, especially considering it's made of ash. I haven't added the strap buttons yet, so I don't know about the balance. You certainly wouldn't want to play a 3 hour show with it though! It's probably >10 lbs. The neck is also used and is in need of some fretwork, so the playability is lackluster until I fix that problem, hopefully this weekend. This is a gift for a close friend, so I'm aiming to make it as perfect as I can with my very rudimentary skillset. (The paintjob is an homage to A Clockwork Orange, which probably isn't obvious. And yes I know this is a lot more info than your question, sorry!).
Lol. The wiring is all just for fun. You know you find those two or three tones that sound good and then you rarely ever stray. And FWIW I've never played a Joe Dart specifically, but I have played off-the-shelf Stingrays, and it's among my favorites. I don't own one, but I plan to one day whenever I can justify buying a 1970s vintage one! Perfection doesn't need to be complicated.
Moving back to my apartment tomorrow. Mental health has been so-so and I feel like I’m developing a drinking problem. Feeling supported by my loved ones, but it also involves drinking every night and usually not in small quantities. With leaves me extremely unproductive during the day, until my evening plans. Fuck… will need to get this under control before it becomes a more permanent problem.
It's scary how quickly a dependence on alcohol creeps up on you. So many of these social situations you feel like you have to drink. Then it becomes habit, and not just on weekends-pitfall of socializing. I most often relapse when I'm living/staying with others-it's hard not to drink when it becomes an integral part of your socialization. I hope moving back helps-a change in scenery can often help kick the habit.
Great meeting spencerflem and getting lunch with kleinbl00 the other day. Glad it worked while you were in town!
Tiny gripe. Super tiny gripe. It's a gaming gripe, so it's inherently tiny. Overwatch 2 has ranked/competition mode, right? You play, compete, and if you do well you rank up, right? 7 wins and you get re-ranked, right? My story goes: First 7 wins, ranked Bronze (the lowest) okay, that's fine. Lots of people are ranked Bronze, I'll move up quick. Sure enough, 7 wins later, I move to Silver. Then another 7 wins, and I move to Gold. Yay! The next 7 wins, I get demoted. This can happen, if you're winning but not being useful. Except I am, I play support roles and I can both fight and keep other people in the fight. Another 7 wins, and I get demoted once more, back to Bronze. I'm thinking "wtf", right? I'll move back up, surely. The next match, I'm in a lobby with names I recognize. They're Australian streamers. Master ranked, if not higher. Very, very good. Why am I in their lobby? Especially if I'm Bronze? I type in chat "Really sorry guys, I think I'm going to be the weak link here". They ask why, I say "I just got demoted to Bronze, and I know you guys aren't Bronze." They're laughing in comms, unsure how to handle this deadweight, but being kind about it. We win the match despite me being caught out at every turn, and barely keeping up. But 2 questions remain. 1. Why am I being demoted despite winning consistently and with very good stats? 2. Does rank actually matter, if the game will just plonk me into lobbies I have no business being in? -- Anyway, It's the 1st December here so my tree can finally go up, under intense supervision of my partner. The veggies are booming and we'll have a hefty crop of new spuds for the family Christmas lunch. Our DnD campaign had another stellar session last night, in the space of about 5 minutes I A) rolled a nat 20 in combat, which led me to firing a supercharged arrow so fast it turned my target into mist, and B) rolled a nat 1 on a strength check, which meant a goblin decked me in the face with a teapot he had stolen from my rucksack. I love it.
The last months of the year are always busy, but after three years of it being brutal this time around I’m doing pretty well. Making the internal move from data specialist to spearheading a part of my team’s business has meant new challenges and responsibilities but somehow less overall stress. I think it helps that a much larger share of my week is doing the fun, engaging things that give energy instead of drain it. I think I’m finally out of my reading slump after breezing through Piranesi last week and enjoying an essay collection by Jia Tolentino despite her being a New Yorker author.
If you're still having email deliverability problems, there might be a error in your SPF record.
I'm confused. You said "emails". kb said "PM replies". Which mode of communication did you mean to remove?