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Wish I could say my summer's been a bed of roses, but I got the news that they think my dad has early-stage emphysema and was in the hospital w/ that for a few weeks. On the bright side, my sister celebrated her b-day this past Sunday, and it was great seeing her family (as always).

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Summer has been pretty dull so far.

 

Work has been slow, but steady enough that I haven't been able to take any real time off. (At most a day or 2 here and there...)

 

I'm not sure what I would do with a bunch of time off anyway; it went from what seemed like months of constant rain right to insanely hot and sticky... meaning I've spent most of my time indoors this summer already. :rolleyes:

 

So, Nitro, you got yerself an El-Strato-de-los-Mehicano! Hmmm... groovy! Pics... we need pics...

 

I'm not sure I'd ditch the Twin for a half-stack though. That's a lot of stuff to lug around,.. and I happen to really love Twins! (You may insert your own perverted double-entendre here :naughty: )

 

Have you tried using a power-soak of some kind? That way you can crank the amp to get the tone, but without the hearing-killing volume.

 

If that's not the way you go, then I personally would try to keep the Twin as well, (if at all financially possible,) and maybe switch between amps (Twin for clean, Marshall for dirty) with an A/B switch, like Eric Johnson does.

 

But have fun with it anyway you choose to go! There are still some ears out there that aren't yet ringing! Get to it!

 

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I may give that power-soak idea a shot... And I really would love to keep the Twin. I might settle for a Valvestate instead of an tube Marshall if I can find one that gets close to the sound I'm looking for at a price that lets me keep the Twin.

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Sounds like a plan!

 

In other news, I'm posting from my 2nd computer... now running the latest version of Mandrake Linux, while watching Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"... which I've decided is like 1984 on way too much acid.

 

Groovy,.. no?

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Got a haircut yesterday. Maybe I went a bit too far... I now look almost like a skinhead.

There's some hair left... but not much. I have 5 o-clock shadow of the skull.

 

I had to come home and really trim my beard way back in order to match.

 

Oh well... at least it should be nice and cool in all this heat.

 

I got my car washed too... but they didn't do such a great job. I really should do it myself if I want it done right... if I weren't so damn lazy.

 

Maybe I'll shell out the extra dough and get a full detailing job...

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I'm getting a new muffler and struts on my car today...all i'm waiting for is them to align my wheels, and it'll be good to drive.

 

i went ahead and wiped out like 90% of my wma music files...making room for some online gaming fun! :D

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got the broadband yesterday.....it is much better than when i had it before...at least i think!

 

i'm able to upload stuff pretty fast, such as pics of my sister's totalled car:

 

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accident scene, the day after (no skid marks from the truck that hit her, the skid marks are from her tires)

 

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the road she was turning onto, she said she saw a red car a ways off before the guard rail starts, so she she had enough time to make the turn if the guy wasn't speeding. the speed limit on the road is 40 miles per hour, which the guy claims to have been traveling.

 

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went out and got a sunburn yesterday while fishing for 5 hours. I caught 3 decent sized fish, a largemouth bass, and 2 sunnys. I released them though. Didn't feel like cleaning them.

 

Here is the bass:

 

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This is me, relaxing for a few minutes

 

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meh it's 'go back to work' day....after having 3 days off, feels like i was on vacation after working 5 days straight 2-11 on each of em.

 

i overdrew from my bank again...i think aol put in a charge and ****ed me over when i cancelled. i'm trying not to stress about it...it's like a total of 4 overdraws....cause they all come back...ugh...that's like $30 for each overdraw, so $120 and then whatever wasnt in when i used the damn card. guess i'll be leaving my debit card at home from now on, or just allot myself some cash.....biweekly pay ftl. :(

 

I'm back on Xbox Live if anybody wants to play Halo 2 before 2pm or after 11pm....my xbox live gamertag is Kioet

 

Been playing alot of Galaxies, trying to beat all the quests from the Rage of the Wookiees Expansion Pack. If anyone here plays that (which i doubt), I play on Starsider as Kioet' (include the apostrophe)

 

Probably going to go fishing before work today. I caught a smallmouth on the delaware river yesterday, after that I lost 4 of my good yamamoto lures...pissed me off. -_-

 

I sent for my doe tag, hopefully I get accepted so when me and my dad go to my great uncle's this fall I have a better chance of getting a deer. :) Didn't get to go last time because I only had the .22 .

 

Hopefully work is ok today....last time I worked I ended up closing by myself, which I somewhat prefer...I get alot more done w/o people in my way.

 

Not sure if I have to work on monday or not. I know I'm working today through sunday, and I have to work on tuesday (which will get me overtime).....hopefully there's not crap in front of the schedule when I go in to work.

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yeah.gotta work monday.....today i'm going in an hour early cause i was called...guess i'll be alright. sucks that every day i'm working it's BEAUTIFUL weather.....pisses me off.

 

Anyways...i'll be getting some nice overtime...too bad like half of it goes to taxes, but i can't really complain as i'll get more back next year.

 

been watching some videos on youtube.......the n64 one was the best. :joy: A NINTENDO SIXTY-FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111

 

lol

 

gonna come home for some bbq chicken supper tonight on my lunch break...the firehouse is making them so it gonna be goooood!

 

i've been having trouble waking up before 10am....like i'll set my alarm clock for 7am, and i'll hit snooze or shut it off completely.....hell yesterday my dad called me 5 times, even knocked on the apt door and i didnt even hear it. :(

 

this summer is going by too fast, i haven't had time to fully enjoy it, cept for last week when i had 3 days off and went fishing, but that's about it.

 

 

i can't wait until wednesday....

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Perfect timing: The handle on my toilet broke last night, so now you really have to do some arcane twisting/ pushing/ pulling/ jiggling in order to get it to flush (and even then it only works about 1 time in 5) or lift the lid off the back and yank the flapper up manually (far more reliable.)

 

Of course, this is the weekend that the state has decided to go far a "Tax-Free Holiday"... so any trip to Home Depot or Lowe's to get replacement parts is bound to be a truly frightening proposition. I just saw on the news that the closest Home Depot to me is mobbed, and about to run out of items. The parking lot is almost completely full...

 

While I don't think most of the folks there are using this weekend to buy replacement parts for their toilets (big-ticket gas grills and power-tools are far more likely...) it does mean that what should be a 5 to 10 minute trip in-and-out for the one item I need, could turn into a several-hour-long-and-possibly-all-day-looking-for-parking-and-standing-in-a-checkout-line excursion. Damn and blast!

 

So it looks like I might have to live with a dicey toilet for a few days, until it's safe to venture back to these types of big-box stores once the fever of unbridled capitalism has passed. (And shelves get re-stocked...)

 

If only those giant stores hadn't put all the small "Mom & Pop" hardware stores around here out of business... :rolleyes:

 

I guess that maybe I'll go for another walk along the beach today (the weather is finally livable around here,) to keep my mind off it... or just sit out on the porch and do some reading (I'm in the middle of the "Dune" series right now. I'm also reading "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie...)

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Hmmm... yeah, that's likely.

 

But I can remember a time when this area had about 10 or 15 different hardware stores. Now we have 2 Home Depots in the same town, and a Lowes one town over, and maybe 1 or 2 of the smaller places left. Seems like something was lost...

 

There are situations when the smaller places are better, though. If all you need is a couple of fairly common nuts and bolts, walking into a smaller place and saying "Hey Charlie! I need 3 of these..." makes a lot more sense to me than going to a giant warehouse-type place and staring down the dreaded "Aisle of Fasteners" where you can literally spend all day searching for the exact thing you need... or trying to find a guy in an apron who works there, but who only knows his way around the store only slightly better than you.

 

I can be in and out of the small place (and probably back home, finishing up whatever project I was working on...) far quicker than I can even find my way to the right section of the bigger store.

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*Sigh*...might as well type this out, since I never have much to contribute to this thread.

 

My life for the past 6 years has been incredibly dull. There has been no intimacy, no closeness, with anyone. My girlfriend of four years broke up with me at that time, and college started getting so busy that there was no time to do anything but work. And I didn't even like my major. My friends from high school pretty much headed in a different direction from me, and though we're still friends, basically, we have nothing in common anymore. There were one or two for whom that was not true, but they have since gotten married and started their own families.

 

So every day I just get up, go to work, do my job, and come home. Now, I have a good job, and I'm thankful for it, but it isn't really something I enjoy doing. So a job I don't care much about and essentially no friends or family left makes for a pretty boring life. Not that my life is bad. It's just...boring.

 

I've just been wanting something to change. Something to really care about. And I've tried various activities, different things, giving my time to good causes, meeting people, and so on. But it is very rare for me to meet someone I respect and like being around. I am quite the introvert, and being around people can be very taxing for me. But sometimes I meet someone I do not find taxing, but, on the contrary, refreshing. I guess I've been looking for someone like that. Perhaps a nice girl to marry. I don't know. But it just never seems to happen.

 

And then, a few months ago, there seemed to be some hope. At church I saw a girl that I knew in high school. Heh, actually, I thought she was an absolute goddess. She was the prettiest girl in school. She was kind and honest and everyone liked her. So I went up and started talking to her. She seemed very happy to see me. It turns out she is an architect. Finished her Masters degree a year ago and has been working close by. As some of you may remember, I develop architectural software. This seemed like the answer to a prayer. It seemed too good to be true. Naturally, it was.

 

I'm sure by now you can all see where this is heading. Yep, she has a boyfriend. Some guy she met in college, which means they have been dating for at least a year, and probably a lot longer than that. And, oh yes, it gets better. The guy just finished law school. Perfect.

 

On one hand, she's not married, so I guess there's still hope, but there's nothing I can really do about it. I certainly don't want to interfere with her relationship, if I even could. So we exchanged e-mail addresses and caught up a little. But I wonder if I'm just making things more difficult on myself.

 

Dammit.

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*hands Keyan his "retired" homewrecking hard hat*

 

I say go for it... But don't go all-out. I call it "passive" homewrecking: Casually let her know you're available and interested, but don't actively try to split them up. Just be a nice guy, avoid any significant conversation about her relationship, and don't ever compare yourself to him (if you do this right, she'll be doing enough of that herself), or imply that you think you're better than him. The idea here is to make her see you as a better choice without looking like you're you're trying to make her see you as a better choice.

 

If she's been with him a year, then either things are amazing, or mostly stable but getting stale. In most cases, it's the latter, which means half the work's already done for you... When things are stable but stale, it's because neither party wants to bother trying to get back into the singles game, so they settle for what they've got because the sex is decent and they like the stability, all the while hoping something better falls into their laps.

 

Based on her initial reactions, I'm betting you just fell into her lap... And if that's the case, then just follow my advice, be yourself, and give her a little time.

 

The worst that can happen is that you get stuck in the friend zone, which is where you'd be if you didn't take a run at her anyway...

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*hands Keyan his "retired" homewrecking hard hat*

 

I say go for it... But don't go all-out. I call it "passive" homewrecking: Casually let her know you're available and interested, but don't actively try to split them up. Just be a nice guy, avoid any significant conversation about her relationship, and don't ever compare yourself to him (if you do this right, she'll be doing enough of that herself), or imply that you think you're better than him. The idea here is to make her see you as a better choice without looking like you're you're trying to make her see you as a better choice.

 

Ha. You make it sound so easy. But you're talking to a guy who has dated exactly one girl in his entire life. Heck, you're talking to a guy who asked out exactly one girl in his entire life. As I said, there are very, very few people who raise my interest. I haven't even had any close friends in six years. I don't know what the hell I'm doing here.

 

If she's been with him a year, then either things are amazing, or mostly stable but getting stale. In most cases, it's the latter, which means half the work's already done for you... When things are stable but stale, it's because neither party wants to bother trying to get back into the singles game, so they settle for what they've got because the sex is decent and they like the stability, all the while hoping something better falls into their laps.

 

Based on her initial reactions, I'm betting you just fell into her lap... And if that's the case, then just follow my advice, be yourself, and give her a little time.

 

I don't know about that. She did seem very happy to see me, but she's just a happy person. Essentially all contact has been initiated by me.

 

The worst that can happen is that you get stuck in the friend zone, which is where you'd be if you didn't take a run at her anyway...

 

That might not even be a bad thing. If I can't date her, I'd like to be her friend. Really, I don't even know enough about her to know for sure if I'd want to date her. I'd just have liked to explore the possibility. I certainly don't want to hurt her or cause her any difficulty. If this guy makes her happy, happier than I could make her, then that's OK - I can live with being her friend. But I don't even know how to get to that point. So we've exchanged a few e-mails. That doesn't exactly make us good friends. So what do I do, ask her to have dinner with me some night after work, so we could catch up a little more? That could be misunderstood. Ask her if she wants to get together some time, but keep it vague? I don't know about that either. She's highly intelligent, and I wouldn't put it past her to instantly suspect something if I asked something like that. As I said, she is just beyond beautiful, and I'm sure she has had enough guys try to get to her that way.

 

I know this all sounds highly pathetic, but the fact of the matter is that I don't have much experience in dealing with women in this type of situation. I have absolutely no idea what might be taken the wrong way.

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I have absolutely no idea what might be taken the wrong way.

Depending on her personality: Everything. Or nothing. Or somethings, and not other things. Or just one thing out of many...

 

It all depends on the day of the week, and the phases of the moon, and what she might have had for breakfast a month ago Sunday...

 

You won't know until you try. None of us ever do.

 

That's where all the fun is... :rolleyes:

 

 

I hope you're a gambling man...

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