Weekend Wrapup

Mark Wein

Mark Wein

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Rehearsal was cancelled because the singer for this week's gig has the 'vid.

Spent Saturday at my daughter's Science Olympiad competition where she learned the reality that big schools that have five times the student population that her school has and have been doing the competitions for two decades instead of two years can field 5-6 teams each and have years of experience and preparation to build off of and end up taking all of the awards. </end parental sour grapes>

On the other hand, she got to work with both her grandfather and myself building a unique musical instrument and learning how to play it. She was also selected to compete of five topics such as infectious diseases, code breaking, oceanography and one other one that I can't remember. This is as close to being sports parents as my wife and I are ever going to get. She is super bright (she's been described by her teachers who have had both of our kids as "just like her brother, but she does homework ":tongue:) and will do well no matter what she ends up doing. I was just bummed watching her get aced out. 51 teams at this thing and 4 schools took the majority of the awards. Including the host school.

Other than that, its back to the grind. Gig on Friday, so that's something to look forward to.
 
It was heckin cold so playing guitar was pretty much all I did this weekend. Well unless you count watching Olympics and golf, and drinking.
 
Took a 3-day off from work for no other reason than I am just fried...

Friday and Saturday - studio time to work on the February Mixing Made Easy project...did probably the best mix I've ever done, full stop...


Sunday - did a quick video for my YouTube Channel...


...whilst making dinner one of the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I could help her start her car...I'm a sucker for a damsel in distress so I helped her jump-start it and made sure it was all good...

Spent the balance of Sunday afternoon and evening vegging on the couch watching SuperCross and NASCAR...

All-in-all a very good weekend...
 
Friday - work and shovelling snow

Saturday - not much. Downloaded the free X-Drive pedal from Ikmultimedia and played with that for a while. Picked up daughter DCF from work and brought to the house for a visit. She’d been on her own for 4 days… Willy was happy to see her though.

Sunday - picked up daughter from work and took her straight to her place, along with a bag of her stuff that we pulled out of our front closet.
Ordered some Korean Fried Chicken for dinner.
 
Not a great one tbh. Generally lots of studying for today's interview.

Friday - went to the pub across the road later on for an hour. A neighbour was fall over pissed so I ended up taking him home at which point he starts crying and telling me he's riddled with cancer. That explains why he's been in self destruct mode since before Christmas. I'm trained in mental health first aid so I had a good chat with him and tried to give him some stuff to focus on rather than watching crap on TV and drinking all day. He's a nice guy so it's been bumming me out to see him in a bad way with the booze recently and finding out why hasn't made it any better. I seen him on the Saturday and was glad he remembered me taking him home and our chat. He promised he'd tidied his place up (it wasn't a big mess but he kept moaning about the state of the place so I told him he should get it tidied so he feels like he's achieved something) Unfortunately he clearly had been drinking again.

Saturday - more prep, finally replaced my lost wedding ring. Local small shopping centre had a handful of people there on a Saturday afternoon. Really sad, COVID has decimated retail here. My cousin flew in late on and headed here. He's not in a particularly good headspace either just now so we had a few beers and a chat into the small hours, I hope it helped a bit.

Sunday - cousin and I met up with my dad then he went to the football, I went home to do more studying then we ordered Chinese which was pretty bleh - watery almost tasteless Kung pao chicken. Had an early-ish night.

We're away to the beach with Lola next weekend I'm much more looking forward to that.
 
jbj said:
Not a great one tbh. Generally lots of studying for today's interview.

Friday - went to the pub across the road later on for an hour. A neighbour was fall over pissed so I ended up taking him home at which point he starts crying and telling me he's riddled with cancer. That explains why he's been in self destruct mode since before Christmas. I'm trained in mental health first aid so I had a good chat with him and tried to give him some stuff to focus on rather than watching crap on TV and drinking all day. He's a nice guy so it's been bumming me out to see him in a bad way with the booze recently and finding out why hasn't made it any better. I seen him on the Saturday and was glad he remembered me taking him home and our chat. He promised he'd tidied his place up (it wasn't a big mess but he kept moaning about the state of the place so I told him he should get it tidied so he feels like he's achieved something) Unfortunately he clearly had been drinking again.

Saturday - more prep, finally replaced my lost wedding ring. Local small shopping centre had a handful of people there on a Saturday afternoon. Really sad, COVID has decimated retail here. My cousin flew in late on and headed here. He's not in a particularly good headspace either just now so we had a few beers and a chat into the small hours, I hope it helped a bit.

Sunday - cousin and I met up with my dad then he went to the football, I went home to do more studying then we ordered Chinese which was pretty bleh - watery almost tasteless Kung pao chicken. Had an early-ish night.

We're away to the beach with Lola next weekend I'm much more looking forward to that.
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You're a good man, Geordie, looking out for others. That can be very emotionally draining. Hope you have a better week and have fun with Lola next weekend. Get your head showered.
 
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Went to a party on Friday night, haven't been drinking for a while and got super hammered on Aperol spritzes.

Spent most of Saturday recovering, then played some music with the guys who I've been trying to be in a band with. Drummer couldn't make it so that put a dampener in the practice right from the word go. It's fun playing music with other humans, but I think I have a fundamental musical difference from those guys. They suggest songs to practice and nothing seems to have any kind of common thread.

'Hey let's do Pearl Jam! And UB40! And Pharrell! And some Irish folk music!'

'Yeah, and I'd like to do RATM, and also Tom Jones'!

"People like Ed Sheeran, we should add one of his songs to the list. And Pink Floyd.'

I wish I was joking. :facepalm:

I've already found another guy who usually plays solo gigs and wants to do powerpop/early REM/indie rock stuff together. I've heard him playing Roky Erickson, the VU and Pixies covers live, so that should be a much better fit for me.
 
Not much, worked some long hours last week and there were some work-related social activities as well that involved alcohol and I'm slightly out of shape in that regard, so I knew I had to tread carefully. I'm part of a small creative team embedded in a brutally political business so it's all about keeping up appearances and politely pretend everything the suits say is brilliant and interesting. It isn't, but we're pretty much doomed strategy-wise if they have it their way, so it's important to keep working them.

Saturday I felt slightly under the weather and spent most of the day with some hot tea and the Strat (that I'm falling ever deeper in love with every day). Sunday I had to finish some work, and then I went binge-watching YT-songs for a couple of hours or three maybe four possibly five no regrets.
 
Motorik said:
Went to a party on Friday night, haven't been drinking for a while and got super hammered on Aperol spritzes.

Spent most of Saturday recovering, then played some music with the guys who I've been trying to be in a band with. Drummer couldn't make it so that put a dampener in the practice right from the word go. It's fun playing music with other humans, but I think I have a fundamental musical difference from those guys. They suggest songs to practice and nothing seems to have any kind of common thread.

'Hey let's do Pearl Jam! And UB40! And Pharrell! And some Irish folk music!'

'Yeah, and I'd like to do RATM, and also Tom Jones'!

"People like Ed Sheeran, we should add one of his songs to the list. And Pink Floyd.'

I wish I was joking. :facepalm:

I've already found another guy who usually plays solo gigs and wants to do powerpop/early REM/indie rock stuff together. I've heard him playing Roky Erickson, the VU and Pixies covers live, so that should be a much better fit for me.
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I could totally see you playing PJ and RATM....perhaps Tool as well :cop:
 
My weekend was another super mellow lay around one. Went to the dispensary Friday night got 2 g Mendo Purps and 2g Chem4. On my way over there I passed by the Golden Corral and it was packed inside. :embarrassed:

Saturday was groceries and watched a bunch of Netflix and youtube

Sunday was laundry and more sofa surfing
 
Bought 3 vacuums Saturday. Our vacuum died. Plan was to buy another one and leave it upstairs where all the bedrooms and carpet are and get a little electric broom for the kitchen, "hardwood" and family room, "vinyl plank", and groceries, on the way back from visiting son in Bloomington. We told him our plan because our life doesn't have much going on so, what else do we have to talk about. Plan changed to shopping in Bloomington so he could use the vacuum in his apartment. Went to Goodwill, almost across the street from his apartment because wife is super cheap. Found an Oreck XL for 10 bucks and gave it to him.
 
Mark Wein said:
Rehearsal was cancelled because the singer for this week's gig has the 'vid.

Spent Saturday at my daughter's Science Olympiad competition where she learned the reality that big schools that have five times the student population that her school has and have been doing the competitions for two decades instead of two years can field 5-6 teams each and have years of experience and preparation to build off of and end up taking all of the awards. </end parental sour grapes>

On the other hand, she got to work with both her grandfather and myself building a unique musical instrument and learning how to play it. She was also selected to compete of five topics such as infectious diseases, code breaking, oceanography and one other one that I can't remember. This is as close to being sports parents as my wife and I are ever going to get. She is super bright (she's been described by her teachers who have had both of our kids as "just like her brother, but she does homework ":tongue:) and will do well no matter what she ends up doing. I was just bummed watching her get aced out. 51 teams at this thing and 4 schools took the majority of the awards. Including the host school.

Other than that, its back to the grind. Gig on Friday, so that's something to look forward to.
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When my daughter was in junior high, I helped her make something. A pvc tube with a speaker in it, another, slightly bigger pvc tube with a mic in it, and a little amp. You put on tube in the other and slid in and out to vary the feedback. Didn't sound go but it was a blast to play with.
 
Bob411 said:
When my daughter was in junior high, I helped her make something. A pvc tube with a speaker in it, another, slightly bigger pvc tube with a mic in it, and a little amp. You put on tube in the other and slid in and out to vary the feedback. Didn't sound go but it was a blast to play with.
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We made a table top string instrument without frets. We couldn’t use any actual guitar parts other than strings so we used doll pins for tuners and we cast the nut and bridge out of resin from the craft store:

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