the happiness, excitement, and general contentedness thread

[Eivind August]

That's great, Chuck!

[Dowi]

Finally moved in the new house last sunday.
Spent last week disassembling-moving-reassemblig furniture and moving boxes with a temperature of 35°C, don't think i ever sweated so much in my entire life.
Everything is a mess, there are boxes everywhere and a lot of stuff to do, but the hardest part is done, and it's finally a HUGE RELIEF as we were supposed to move at the end of april if it wasn't for COVID.



Gonna be more present here once i sort a couple more things out - like, internet connection .

[coldbrightsunlight]

Woooo!! Congratulations, must be nice to finally have it done

[Dowi]

indeed it is! and it will be even better once i jump on the "rehearsal/music/studio room" project for the small spare room in the basement.. but i think i won't be able to start it at least until the beginning of 2021

[Eivind August]

That's rad, Dowi!

[coldbrightsunlight]

Awesome! Having a music room is

[chuckjaywalk]

I was about to post this in the "other" thread, but honestly, I think it is better to laugh about it. February 2019, I won a very nice pedal in a contest: a Veri-Tone Fuzz-Arka. Due to my living situation, I was unable to use it until yesterday. I sat on a fuzz pedal for 18 months. I wired everything up in the afternoon, clicked on the pedal. It lit up, but there was no sound. I was frustrated, sweaty, and my glasses kept sliding off my face to the floor. Then, I realized something. It had been so long since I used a pedal, or an amp, that I had run the chain backwards. I swapped it and made a glorious sound. I felt like such a ding-dong until this morning. I can actually plug my guitar into my gear, again. I have a place in my life for that again. I was able to afford a OneSpot. I was able to fire up the Excelsior. I'm in a better place.

The Fuzz-Arka is a nice little fuzzer. It has a lot of the Fuzzrite nastiness I love and is a good match for my amp. I still need a delay and overdrive for my post-punk glories, but a silicon fuzz and a BF-2 goes a long way.

[coldbrightsunlight]

It happens to everyone one time or another. Must be great to be able to play

[Dowi]

Hey y'aaaaaaal! How're you doing?
I've completed the house moving a couple weeks ago and then been on a brief but much needed family vacation. 
Anyway i should be more present here starting from now (i should finally have an internet connection at home in a couple of weeks), i even got time to play a bit with a couple pedals yesterday for the first time in a month or so - yayyy
Hope you're all fine, stay safe and see you on the board.

[Eivind August]

[MSUsousaphone]

I'm still alive.

[fcknoise]

I'm still alive.

that is good shit

I debated posting this in the frustration thread, but I think moving forward might actually be cool and good. After today I am unemployed, again. Hopefully I can find something actually nice and fulfilling and that pays a little so I don't have to be so broke. Gonna take this time in unemployment to do some off-jobs, try to write a little on my book idea, and go to the gym.

Although, that I am posting in this thread just means I woke up on my good side this morning. A lot of the time there is a loads of dread, already I have been rejected from multiple places and dealing with the rollercoaster of hope and disappointment is not something I look forward to

[MaxMaps]

Tonight I was playing music for only a half of an hour and after I was done I got the best feeling.

I really love playing bass again.

I am starting to really love music again.

I feel like something wonderful came back to me in a way I never thought. I even told my mom I would never play again.

But here I am playing bass and instead of dogging myself for what I am not, I think of what I did and what I am doing now and I realized that while I am not a uber mega musician, I played shows, recorded, owned rad shit, and the bass for better or worse has followed me through myself. I have accomplished a LOT more than what I lead myself to believe.

And I am back here with you rad fuzz loving, gas inducing, shredders you.

[goosekevin]

i got my ears syringed my ears are unblocked, my vertigo is gone, i can hear way better

[Schlatte]

i got my ears syringed my ears are unblocked, my vertigo is gone, i can hear way better

Nice!
I had this done about two months ago and it was like someone removed a low-pass filter from my ears!