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Good luck jbj!

I'll be honest. I don't think I've posted much anywhere on the forum since lockdown. Something's obviously changed where I didn't feel I had much to report. I've actually bought several guitars since that time and didn't even feel like posting about them.

Reading that back, it sounds like I might not be in a good place mentally, but actually I'm really good.
 
I actually haven't touched a guitar in forever :embarrassed: I've been mostly working on electronic music, samplers and synths and shit.

Though I might actually start a new project with friends that involves me doing some guitar.
 
One of the big house jobs over the Summer was renovating and decorating what is going to be the den. It's been finished since about June, telly up on the wall, ridiculous orange Stressless couch my mate gave me for free :messedup:, guitars up on the wall. It's a great space and we've not been in it once except to dump boxes and bits from elsewhere in the house that's being worked on:headsmash:

I still have my acoustic downstairs and bought a really nice wooden stand for it so it can sit in the living room looking nice, I play that almost daily but it's just noodling and strumming away, I've not actively learned anything new skill wise for years.
 
Got my job application finished and submitted this afternoon :thu: had a big wig meeting with one of my tricky parents but it turned out more positive than I thought it would. For me and the corporate school as a whole, a short sighted colleague probably not so much :embarrassed:

We finish at half 2 tomorrow and that's me starting to get everything together for the big day.
 
We've been absolutely battered with this storm.

Work was closed today. Local FB groups showing trees down all over the place and a whole tenement roof has been ripped off across from my grans sheltered housing.

Half of our ridge tiles are fucked, one of them has smashed up my neighbours car :facepalm: weirdly our decrepit old fence has managed to stand up to it.

I was meant to be gigging in Fife tonight but cancelled it yesterday and managed to get something else sorted for them. Gutted but definitely the right move.

Im gigging just outside Preston tomorrow and the outlook is much better but still not looking forward to the drive, lots of pals on FB who were travelling back up the M6 and 74 after the Rangers game today saying it was horrendous.
 
Coming back from a Rangers game is indeed horrendous :embarrassed:

It's been a weirdly calm, mild and fairly bright day in London. Hope the dug wisnae too freaked oot.
 
pmc100 said:
Coming back from a Rangers game is indeed horrendous :embarrassed:

It's been a weirdly calm, mild and fairly bright day in London. Hope the dug wisnae too freaked oot.
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Turns out a mate who is a notorious wanderer when away is stuck in Carlisle, absolutely steaming with about 40 other daftness.

I've offered to pick him up en route home tomorrow. No good deed goes unpunished and it's not been accepted in the most gracious way:

"Where are you staying tonight? What do you man I can't make my way to (middle of nowhere) and stay with you(after a 16 hour shift)? What am I meant to do?"

"How much space is there in your motor? There's a bunch of people needing a lift."

"What time are you leaving at, I'm meant to be going to the Dundee game and I've tickets to drop off."

:headsmash:
 
Picked him up. Dropped him off at a local pub around half 12 so he could catch the rest of the game.

I have it on good authority he was finally chucked out and sent home around 8 o clock last night!!!
 
Well at least you guys got some exciting weather :embarrassed: Here it's the shittest winter in a long time. It's barely cold enough to keep our food on the balcony (our fridge that decided to stop doing the whole cooling thing).

Had a good time bringing the old fridge to the dump yesterday. It's in our old neighbourhood, so we had some fun walking around the places we used to live years ago.
 
On my annual snowboarding trip and managed to dislocate my shoulder. Luckily I was able to pop it right back in and I have pretty full movement but it's still pretty painful. Will just have to spend the remaining holiday drinking in the mountain restaurants. Ah well :embarrassed:

@ColourofFire didn't you do something similar a few years ago?
 
pmc100 said:
On my annual snowboarding trip and managed to dislocate my shoulder. Luckily I was able to pop it right back in and I have pretty full movement but it's still pretty painful. Will just have to spend the remaining holiday drinking in the mountain restaurants. Ah well :embarrassed:

@ColourofFire didn't you do something similar a few years ago?
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I broke a rib, but just continued rolling with it. Wasn't super pleasant, but snowboarding with it was fine.

CoGF managed to dislocate her elbow during a snowboarding trip, but that was a bit bigger of an ordeal than popping it back :embarrassed:
 
Ouch. Dislocated elbow sounds very painful. I also cracked a rib once, and yeah, was able to keep going.

I'm mostly recovered and back home but missed out on 3 days of perfect conditions. :cry: Ah well, comes with the territory.
 
pmc100 said:
Ouch. Dislocated elbow sounds very painful. I also cracked a rib once, and yeah, was able to keep going.

I'm mostly recovered and back home but missed out on 3 days of perfect conditions. :cry: Ah well, comes with the territory.
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Yeah the elbow was a major issue. Lasted half a year, some space age brace device and a lot of fysio to get back to normal.

I actually broke my ribs again half a year ago :embarrassed: Definitely extremely painful, but not the end of the world. Glad you're ok, too bad about the conditions, but considering how garbage this winter is, count yourself lucky you got good conditions to begin with. All our snowboarding plans went out of the window cause anywhere we'd go just has bullshit weather. Even up north here there's more rain than snow at the moment. But at least we got a day in here and there at the local hill.
 
So my school is being inspected just after Easter. I'm now just under 5 hours into pulling spreadsheets and data.

Strange it's a slightly better Saturday afternoon than last weekend when I spent most of it knee deep in shit with a drain rod in our blocked outside inspection shaft :embarrassed:
 
Received an email from someone who is doing the job I used to at the last place I worked. They were looking for some advice about this and that.

She doesn't know who I am or that I worked there but cc'd in my old boss - who does. I wouldn't be anywhere near where I am today career wise if he hadn't shafted me when the job became permanent almost a decade ago.

I took great delight in replying all to give some vague, not particularly helpful advice.

"I hope that's if use and wish I could further assist but I don't have the capacity given me role and remit to spend any more time on it.

"All the best with your endeavours and I hope you're well John."

Regards

Mr JBJ


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Seriously, lads/ladies. This is a bit embarrassing (I'm including myself here). No posts here since May 2025???

How's everyone doing? I'm doing well enough, short of dealing with part of my living room ceiling coming down a couple of weeks ago because the tenants upstairs' cat somehow turned on the kitchen sink and their kitchen then flooded.
 
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