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It's a lot easier than learning how to ride a bike.

lol

what

learning how to drive isn't easier than learning how to ride a bike?

Well unless you're a road biker, there's so many more rules on the road for bikes than cars

But yeah, learning to ride a bike was infinitely easier than a car? I don't think I could have learned to drive on the road at the age of 6?

I'm just saying in general. I'm not talking about learning things at a young age. I think in general, learning how to balance yourself on a bicycle is harder than managing a car. *shrug*I

I had trouble getting turns down and with smooth braking but it was my first lesson so I got to charge that to the game. I am amazed as many people drive as they do, its not simple to do at all

also acceleration that shit is scary :lol: like you got to be gentle like a motherfucker.

How do you tie your shoes in the morning???

Imagine driving like this doe…. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=686574861408881

give me a little leeway I'm learning in the middle of brooklyn it was damn near an obstacle course.

The worse part is its over and I still feel high strung I think I'm going to take a nap to try to relax

Come to Texas and get on the freeway. Consider it an accelerated course where if you don't move and drive there's a good chance you'll literally die.

Come to Texas and on the freeway. Consider it an accelerated course where if you don't move and drive there's a good chance you'll literally die.

Fuck Texas freeways :lol:

"So we all agree that merging from a 6 lane freeway into a 9 lane freeway is a good idea? Good. Let's also make sure that people merge from another freeway into the left most lane and have less than a 1/4 mile to change 9 lanes to get to their exit. Who wants steak for breakfast?"

Come to Texas and on the freeway. Consider it an accelerated course where if you don't move and drive there's a good chance you'll literally die.

Fuck Texas freeways :lol:

"So we all agree that merging from a 6 lane freeway into a 9 lane freeway is a good idea? Good. Let's also make sure that people merge from another freeway into the left most lane and have less than a 1/4 mile to change 9 lanes to get to their exit. Who wants steak for breakfast?"

I truly believe if you can drive here you can drive anywhere. It's so a part of me that I dont even realize it. When I got on Hawaii freeway locals probably thought I was running from the law.

Its literally why I didn't buy a car in my three years of being here.

I've done NYC, DC, Atlanta, LA - this is fucking madness

its funny you'll mention texas since there is a good chance I will end up in Houston if I leave the NYC area.... definitely not looking forward to driving in Texas now....

its funny you'll mention texas since there is a good chance I will end up in Houston if I leave the NYC area…. definitely not looking forward to driving in Texas now….

Once you master it you'll feel like a road god

I've been working with these 2 women in Argentina setting up some new server farms the past couple of days...

Y'all have any idea what it sounds like to hear that south American accent mixed with IT/tech talk

gawd

I've been working with these 2 women in Argentina setting up some new server farms the past couple of days…

Y'all have any idea what it sounds like to hear that south American accent mixed with IT/tech talk

gawd

the rolling R's and double L's must be a nightmare

One of them talks in one of those tones like she's ready to get it in . Plus that accent. I'm over here trying to stay focused and not destroy a farm ;_;

One of them talks in one of those tones like she's ready to get it in . Plus that accent. I'm over here trying to stay focused and not destroy a farm ;_;

yeah the spanish accent is the sexiest one's out there man. Whenever you can get them into saying papi...... Hnnnng

I am stressed out of my mind right now.

One of them talks in one of those tones like she's ready to get it in . Plus that accent. I'm over here trying to stay focused and not destroy a farm ;_;

thats why i went straight software design

the feel of a potential networking fuckup is just...not for me

I am stressed out of my mind right now.

It's your birthday, have a drink. Or ten.

I am stressed out of my mind right now.

It's your birthday, have a drink. Or ten.

I want to but man... lol

I got too much on my plate right now :lol:

One of them talks in one of those tones like she's ready to get it in . Plus that accent. I'm over here trying to stay focused and not destroy a farm ;_;

thats why i went straight software design

the feel of a potential networking fuckup is just…not for me

I just finished an on-call rotation from hell. Saturday our on-call phone was going off like crazy. Got those issues situated and then at approximately 11:56p that night I get hit with a email that says "Configuration DB unreachable/unresponsive". Between the Server Ops and Database Admin teams it did not get resolved until 11a on Sunday. Ended up working from 8a Sat - 1030a Sun.

I might just be dead right now and don't realize it.

Well, update on what's new.

Divorce is nearing the end...HOPEFULLY. Things can change daily, unfortunately. Still dating the same chick which is going great. Such a pleasant change from the last 8 years. No drama. No games. Just enjoying one another. Atlanta is well...disgustingly hot and humid. I started a new job in financial planning (protecting oneself from financial loss during illness, making sure folks don't outlive their money, retirement, etc.) a couple of months ago which is going fantastic. The interview process was ridiculous long and arduous but I made it. Fantastic firm, one of the oldest in Atlanta and the people are great.

Oh, and I'm hopefully going to get drinks with H3ro pretty soon.

Well, update on what's new.

Divorce is nearing the end…HOPEFULLY. Things can change daily, unfortunately. Still dating the same chick which is going great. Such a pleasant change from the last 8 years. No drama. No games. Just enjoying one another. Atlanta is well…disgustingly hot and humid. I started a new job in financial planning (protecting oneself from financial loss during illness, making sure folks don't outlive their money, retirement, etc.) a couple of months ago which is going fantastic. The interview process was ridiculous long and arduous but I made it. Fantastic firm, one of the oldest in Atlanta and the people are great.

Oh, and I'm hopefully going to get drinks with H3ro pretty soon.

Glad to hear it man. That's quite a change from where you're at a year ago. Hope you keep it up and it's not just a temporary blip in success.

Yea man. I appreciate it. Just trying to stay positive.

so I took my 4th driving lesson today and man I fell in love with driving.

I had the window down, slight breeze in my face, some old jigga bumping on the radio, I was barely fucking up to the point the instructor finally went over parking too.

Today was a good day :D

Oh, and I'm hopefully going to get drinks with H3ro pretty soon.

Damn, that's rough. Hang in there. Just remember that it gets better after meeting h3ro.

Oh, and I'm hopefully going to get drinks with H3ro pretty soon.

Damn, that's rough. Hang in there. Just remember that it gets better after meeting h3ro.

Gaby, I'll try to keep my head up. BTW, any chance you'll be in Atlanta anytime soon?

I'll be in DC starting October 1st, for 9 months (or 21 if I get more funding and I choose to stay). That would make meeting-up easier.

Work frustration.

Here at Meijer, your seniority matters more than experience/qulifications. 99% of all employees here start as "part time" working full time hours. Full time positions are rare, and when they become available, a lot of ppl who are already full time might get tired of where they work and apply for that position, so they transfer, and part timers just have to deal with it. It's an effed up system, and if there were ever an argument against unions, this would be it.

So I have been working here for 9 months, yet because full time first shift positions are rare, this kid who just started 2 months ago got a full time position because she's second shift and nobody else wanted that position. I spoke with my wife about going to second shift and I would basically become an absentee father to our kids. So now, that second shift girl has more senority than I do AND the one other person above me in our building who has been working here for three years...in just 2 months!

I can't wait for my wife to graduate in two weeks so she can get a job and I can quit here and find a job where credentials actually matter.

Work frustration.

Here at Meijer, your seniority matters more than experience/qulifications. 99% of all employees here start as "part time" working full time hours. Full time positions are rare, and when they become available, a lot of ppl who are already full time might get tired of where they work and apply for that position, so they transfer, and part timers just have to deal with it. It's an effed up system, and if there were ever an argument against unions, this would be it.

So I have been working here for 9 months, yet because full time first shift positions are rare, this kid who just started 2 months ago got a full time position because she's second shift and nobody else wanted that position. I spoke with my wife about going to second shift and I would basically become an absentee father to our kids. So now, that second shift girl has more senority than I do AND the one other person above me in our building who has been working here for three years…in just 2 months!

I can't wait for my wife to graduate in two weeks so she can get a job and I can quit here and find a job where credentials actually matter.

Sounds like you got a plan so stay the course. Also I always give this advice don't quit until the next job is lined up. Unemployment has this way of getting longer than you want before you know it.

Also I always give this advice don't quit until the next job is lined up. Unemployment has this way of getting longer than you want before you know it.

Yep, words to live by. It's too easy to get into drift mode when you don't have to get up for work every day.

Also I always give this advice don't quit until the next job is lined up. Unemployment has this way of getting longer than you want before you know it.

Yep, words to live by. It's too easy to get into drift mode when you don't have to get up for work every day.

While in Michigan, I don't plan on quitting. The stats concerning employment here are abysmal, as well as income rates being in decline. It is no wonder why the state has negative population growth.

One of my supervisors who has my back says that some promotions are coming in late September/early October. I'm not going to hold my breath, but that's a "last chance" opportunity in my eyes. If nothing breaks then, I'll stick around through Thanksgiving and Christmas for my holiday pay, take my 5 PDOs, and decide to move back down South with our tax return money. At least we wouldn't be 1000 miles away from family.

Also I always give this advice don't quit until the next job is lined up. Unemployment has this way of getting longer than you want before you know it.

Yep, words to live by. It's too easy to get into drift mode when you don't have to get up for work every day.

While in Michigan, I don't plan on quitting. The stats concerning employment here are abysmal, as well as income rates being in decline. It is no wonder why the state has negative population growth.

One of my supervisors who has my back says that some promotions are coming in late September/early October. I'm not going to hold my breath, but that's a "last chance" opportunity in my eyes. If nothing breaks then, I'll stick around through Thanksgiving and Christmas for my holiday pay, take my 5 PDOs, and decide to move back down South with our tax return money. At least we wouldn't be 1000 miles away from family.

Honestly, given the economic stats you cited, that's the smart move either way. There's a world full of jobs out there, no need to tie yourself to a rough spot because of one not so good one.

Oh, and I'm hopefully going to get drinks with H3ro pretty soon.

Damn, that's rough. Hang in there. Just remember that it gets better after meeting h3ro.

I'll be in DC starting October 1st, for 9 months (or 21 if I get more funding and I choose to stay). That would make meeting-up easier.

Awesome!

Finally starting to see a light at the end of the tunnell.
Divorce hearing set for Sept 3rd where the remaining issues will be ironed out.
Starting to get clients at work.
Live is getting good.

So the BIGGEST BOSS ON CAMPUS at my job had a 1on1 convo with me and basically said I needed to do this internal-internship thing if I wanted to move up in the company. He heard I called it "remedial" for my credentials and strongly encouraged me to do it anyway. Ugh, this is why I wanted to be in education because I'm more of a loner type, not an ass-kisser. I'll do it, but I'm still solid on the 5 mo time-table.

Wife finishing up her degree with a more marketable major (business) and I might become a stay at home dad.

ass-kissing and networking are two different things

and 5 months is gonna go by whether you do anything with it or not. just my o

I'm trying to get out of this band I'm in because the lead guitarist is a diva who wants to make everything sound like Japanese hard rock, the lead singer can't sing but everyone wants to keep her because she's hot, and I've got a ton of other stuff I need to be doing anyway.

This shit is like trying to leave a cult. Texts and phone calls asking me to stay all day, everybody saying we need to have meetings to work this out, saying I need to talk to the guitarist one on one and "be a man" and "it's the right thing to do." Followed by "but we need you! He's promised he's gonna change! Only you can do what you do!" This has been going on for a week.

It's like, fuck, I explained 17 times I'm done. The music sucks, only the drummer is good, and the guitarist wants to re-write all my parts because he used to be a sound engineer in Tokyo and his friend writes songs for AKB48 so he thinks he knows everything. And I'm like, fuck off, Guns N' Roses are dead, X Japan are shite, not everything has to be a 5th or a 7th off your guitar lead which you just ripped off from the Chilli Peppers anyway, microtonal shifts are in, and upper and lower tensions are a thing.

Okay, that last part is what I'm trying not to say, because I want to keep things high road. But shit is testing me, it's probably easier to get out of Scientology.

Collaboration can be great for keep you motivated to get music done, but I'm thinking it's time to go back to being unproductive and solo. Or just be reaaaallly selective about what I get into next time.

I'm trying to get out of this band I'm in because the lead guitarist is a diva who wants to make everything sound like Japanese hard rock, the lead singer can't sing but everyone wants to keep her because she's hot, and I've got a ton of other stuff I need to be doing anyway.

This shit is like trying to leave a cult. Texts and phone calls asking me to stay all day, everybody saying we need to have meetings to work this out, saying I need to talk to the guitarist one on one and "be a man" and "it's the right thing to do." Followed by "but we need you! He's promised he's gonna change! Only you can do what you do!" This has been going on for a week.

It's like, fuck, I explained 17 times I'm done. The music sucks, only the drummer is good, and the guitarist wants to re-write all my parts because he used to be a sound engineer in Tokyo and his friend writes songs for AKB48 so he thinks he knows everything. And I'm like, fuck off, Guns N' Roses are dead, X Japan are shite, not everything has to be a 5th or a 7th off your guitar lead which you just ripped off from the Chilli Peppers anyway, microtonal shifts are in, and upper and lower tensions are a thing.

Okay, that last part is what I'm trying not to say, because I want to keep things high road. But shit is testing me, it's probably easier to get out of Scientology.

Collaboration can be great for keep you motivated to get music done, but I'm thinking it's time to go back to being unproductive and solo. Or just be reaaaallly selective about what I get into next time.

I mean did you expect a Japanese hard rock band based in toronto not to catch feelings when you decided to leave? Because everything about that to me screams "they will catch feelings if I decide to leave".....

I'm trying to get out of this band I'm in because the lead guitarist is a diva who wants to make everything sound like Japanese hard rock, the lead singer can't sing but everyone wants to keep her because she's hot, and I've got a ton of other stuff I need to be doing anyway.

I had no idea you did music. I guess your username makes a lot more sense now :lol:

What do you play?

I mean did you expect a Japanese hard rock band based in toronto not to catch feelings when you decided to leave? Because everything about that to me screams "they will catch feelings if I decide to leave"…..

Only the guitarist is Japanese. And the initial project was supposed to be like this ambient shoegazer electronic thing. But then it turned out that he only had a rudimentary idea of what those words mean so he was like playing L'Arc En Ciel while I'm doing Boards of Canada and Massive Attack. And he had crazy ideas about how since the bass player sucks the drummer should play bass lines with a double kick drum.

And the drummer is like this amazing jazz/funk drummer raised by his jazz playing dad but what he really wants to do is drop all that and make dubstep in Logic.

And the lead singer talked to me for years about working on a project and the bands she'd been in and how she played bass...and then it turns out she can't do any of those things and doesn't even know basic scales or breathing exercises or anything and has like a one octave range. And then she's like "actually, my favourite vocalists do stuff that's more like talking, can I do that?" But then we have to turn every instrument down to nothing so she can be heard, except drum kits don't have volume knobs or plug into a mixer so we just sound like a drum set.

So I'm like, I spend $40 a week for the practice space and beers afterwards so the guitarist can collapse on the floor and have meltdowns every week because everyone's not doing what he wants. And after 3 months we almost have 2.5 songs except he wants to change them every week and spend 40 minutes of practice telling the drummer what to do...and I do this why?

I'm trying to get out of this band I'm in because the lead guitarist is a diva who wants to make everything sound like Japanese hard rock, the lead singer can't sing but everyone wants to keep her because she's hot, and I've got a ton of other stuff I need to be doing anyway.

I had no idea you did music. I guess your username makes a lot more sense now :lol:

What do you play?

Synths/keys/Octatrack/modular stuff. Though I'm most productive working in Logic tbh.

I've thought a lot about learning how to drum to help become part of a death metal or black metal band, but finding people that have talent that you don't want to kill always sounds like such a pain.

I've thought a lot about learning how to drum to help become part of a death metal or black metal band, but finding people that have talent that you don't want to kill always sounds like such a pain.

"The fury of our sound shall become the ur-ritual of the dark herald, whose blood tyde shall burn away the souls of the weak and leave only the strongest of the diabolic circles remaining! Grim demons whose battles shall clash and ring out for all eternity upon the blasted face of the Earth!

But only if it's with some chill dudes, I don't want to argue about it."

LFK, just remember. It's a hobby / past time. It's meant to make life fun and be enjoyable.

How hot of a lead singer are we talking about here? Details people.

This is insane. I got suckered into calling the guitarist to end things. He won't let me hang up.

He's telling me my reasons for leaving are not valid. I "haven't provided enough proof for what you're saying" for my reasons for wanting to leave. I tell him I've got other shit to do and he's like "but that hasn't happened yet, you haven't tested it yet." And then the guilt - "you didn't give us enough notice before the last practice. The other two almost didn't show up. I almost had to pay a cancellation fee for the practice space. How do you feel about that?" I feel like I understand what it's like to be a woman with a manipulative boyfriend.

After 25 minutes of this nonsense I had to hang up on him. (I had been trying to cut off the conversation for the previous 15).

LFK, just remember. It's a hobby / past time. It's meant to make life fun and be enjoyable.

That never left the forefront of my mind. Unfortunately the guitarist is broke and sees this as his path to success and riches. He's already got us (excuse me, them) mentally booked at the Air Canada Centre.

How hot of a lead singer are we talking about here? Details people.

Beautiful dirty blonde fit yoga instructor, but artsy/flaky with warning sirens like whoa. After I told her I was leaving she seems to have deleted all the sound files on the band's shared drop box.

The guitarist naturally accused me and said the timing was convenient. Musicians, man.

Haha I had a friend who was in a similar situation. She was the violinist of a band who was basically run by a couple but she basically said fuuuuuck this and left. But it's funny cause I notice they still have her on their ads and stuff (Because she's hot) You just gotta be cold as hell man

How do you look for a band though? Because lately I have wanted to play in one to diversify what I do. It gets really old practicing for orchestra auditions/being stuck practicing the same shit I've heard all my life. I'm not trained in anything but classical but I feel like being a creator lately and I think I would have something to offer. Problem is I don't want to play with a bunch of hacks. LFK, let's start a Skype band!

Well, just finished dinner with H3ro. Dude is awesome. Great food, great convo, and some good beer. Besties.

Well, just finished dinner with H3ro. Dude is awesome. Great food, great convo, and some good beer. Besties.

now kiss

Well, just finished dinner with H3ro. Dude is awesome. Great food, great convo, and some good beer. Besties.

now kiss

Don't hate on our bromance.

Well, just finished dinner with H3ro. Dude is awesome. Great food, great convo, and some good beer. Besties.

now kiss

*kith*

I have it on good authority that h3ro was straight until he met LS.

hero an LS kissing in a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G

first came gaf

then came slaent

next thing you know

they were kissing on a date. :lol:

Well, just finished dinner with H3ro. Dude is awesome. Great food, great convo, and some good beer. Besties.

now kiss

*kith*

I have it on good authority that h3ro was straight until he met LS.

Adam, don't worry, you're next