Re: Monthly chat August 2016
Dark, glad to hear things are going well with the new wife.
I feel like I've been away for a long time, during my latest "Aprone falls away from the audio game scene" episode. I am trying to now ease my way back into my old routine of checking email, checking these forums, and coding.
Weeks ago I had made an extremely unpopular admin decision on Swamp, that had a group of people in an absolute uproar. To make a long story short, enough people were chucking insults and hate mail at me that I threw my hands up and said "F this." I stopped working on the new Swamp code I'd been working on for a while, and took a little time away from the community. I didn't plan on taking a very long break, but other stuff found a way to keep me away longer.
A good friend of mine lost his house and needed to move in with us (my wife and I), so a ton of time was spent organizing and moving things around in preparation. I work on so many different kinds of projects that someone could easily label me as a hoarder. The house is filled with everything from wires and gears, to sheets of scrap metal and plastic. My poor wife, haha! Our plan was to give the friend half of our garage space, a room in the basement, and extra storage space in an adjacent room. Sounds easy enough but freeing up that space meant a major undertaking of cleaning out the whole house, organizing, and throwing away a ton of stuff I'm least likely to actually use any time soon.
The Swamp/Castaways server was going to have to be moved into a different room, which meant running a new electrical outlet to where it would go. My basement only has the 1 "finished" room and the rest have only a single electrical outlet each. Cable (TV) also had to be fed through the ceili
ng and walls to run it into the room my friend would be staying in. I'm too cheap to pay an actual electrician, so all of these changes were mine to handle.
After tearing up and replacing the carpet in his new room, and replacing the door frame that the previous owners installed themselves incorrectly (holy crap that was a pain), everything would have been set. It was at that time that my wife was willing to move our second floor (a bungalow style room) down into a room on the main floor, while moving the main floor's contents to this new basement room. The change would give our friend the entire second floor of the home, which has more space. The friend was quite excited about the new idea, so that became the new plan.
I'm sure many of us can imagine the effort needed to carry chairs, sofas, entertainment centers, and book she lves between rooms of a house (and between floors). I'll spare those details, but will comment that the 200+ pound electric treadmill was the least fun to move 2 floors from the upstairs to the basement.
An internet cable had to be ran up to the second floor through a wall, and the only way to make it work was to cut the end off. Of the million tools, a cat 5 cable crimper is not one of them, so that's something I'll fix in a few days.
Some close friends invited us up to a lake house, so this whole house altering project was split with a 5 day trip up north. We had fun, fished, and spent some time on their boat. Our car has been dying for a long time. Like, a Long time! Way back when I did those See Munkey recordings, someone even commented on how terrible my car sounded, haha! So anyway, the long drive up north brought about a terrible new noise coming from the car, and we had already both wondered if our vehicle would survive such a trip. On the drive back, 1 hour from home, the engine blew. Boom! Blew a fist-sized hole in the engine and shot metal onto the freeway. We are now in a new car, which Jennifer is thrilled about, and of which I am nervously optimistic. Jennifer wanted to lease a brand new car because she has had to deal with our unreliable one for so long, and I've never been a fan of using something I do not own. When some moron dings up your car you can normally just shrug and live with it, but on a lease I'll have to pay to repair any damage when it gets turned back in. So yeah, I'm less comfortable about this arrangement.
That's about it for me I think. I apologize to anyone who has been trying to get a hold of me. Well, I should say I apologize to anyone wanting to get a hold of me for normal reasons. To people flinging insults and anger, I'm glad you wasted time writing stuff I never
read, haha! I'm so back logged on missed messages that I believe I'll just hit select all, and delete. It's a crappy thing of me to do, but realistically I'm not going to go back and read weeks worth of missed stuff. 218 unread emails, 50 "recent" unread skype messages... sheesh, no thank you. ROFL!
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