the happiness, excitement, and general contentedness thread

[MaxMaps]

Thanks guys!

I am tripping a little hard - really if you don't have your health you really have nothing. I can't remember hearing so many sounds at once.

I cant wait to jam this weekend.

[Blackened Soul]

I had to break so a mink could cross the road from my neighbors property, it was clearly up to mink busyness

[Scruffie]

Just saw The Venture Bros. & Metalocalypse are getting finale movies and messed my self a little.

[Pepe]

The synth repair shop in Bavaria finally found the technical fault after having my KORG Trident mkI on their workbench for exactly one year now. My unit had a strange problem after I overhauled and recapped it seven years ago (PWM signals flowing into the filter section after 45 minutes). I spent hours, days and weeks throughout the years to find the fault and it did also leave the owner of the repair shop no peace - he wanted to send it to me in perfect condition, come what may ... So the people in South Germany obviously received another working synth to compare it with my faulty instrument.

I don't know yet what was wrong (I'm going to be informed tomorrow) and what it will cost me (the repair costs I had in mind were already exceeded on day one on the workbench), but I'm happy that I can soon play this majestically sounding huge beast again!

[doommeow]

i came out to my catholic, conservative (small "c" - she's repressed, not evil) 70+ y/o mom this weekend. it went really well, as good as I could've hoped, actually.

so , i'm trans, and as it's june i'm legally required to poop rainbows

[cosmicevan]

i came out to my catholic, conservative (small "c" - she's repressed, not evil) 70+ y/o mom this weekend. it went really well, as good as I could've hoped, actually.

so , i'm trans, and as it's june i'm legally required to poop rainbows

Nice! I'm not trans, but as an ally I'll poop some rainbows too!!!

I'm particularly psyched lately because after a year of being burned out at work, I took things into my own hands and changed jobs. I'm now in my third week and this was such an amazing move! I am able to crush this role and still make a nice living and now have time for my family and to bleep bloop and I am not walking around like a ball of angry stress. Feels great to breathe again!

Oh yeah, and locally covid has all but vanished so that's been pretty awesome too!

[coldbrightsunlight]

i came out to my catholic, conservative (small "c" - she's repressed, not evil) 70+ y/o mom this weekend. it went really well, as good as I could've hoped, actually.

so , i'm trans, and as it's june i'm legally required to poop rainbows

Congrats!! glad it went well

[goosekevin]

i came out to my catholic, conservative (small "c" - she's repressed, not evil) 70+ y/o mom this weekend. it went really well, as good as I could've hoped, actually.

so , i'm trans, and as it's june i'm legally required to poop rainbows

fuck yeah <3

[Eivind August]

i came out to my catholic, conservative (small "c" - she's repressed, not evil) 70+ y/o mom this weekend. it went really well, as good as I could've hoped, actually.

so , i'm trans, and as it's june i'm legally required to poop rainbows

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

so , i'm trans, and as it's june i'm legally required to poop rainbows

[MaxMaps]

Jamming on my EVH eddie striped strat yesterday for over two hours.

I have never been so in love with playing music, everything feels so different. I don't even care if I can play well - just as long as I am playing I can make something work.

You guys are a huge part of it thank you for making me love music and love playing music ( for a 3rd time around!)

[coldbrightsunlight]

[friendship]

i came out to my catholic, conservative (small "c" - she's repressed, not evil) 70+ y/o mom this weekend. it went really well, as good as I could've hoped, actually.

so , i'm trans, and as it's june i'm legally required to poop rainbows

That's awesome! I'm so proud of you!!!!!

[ibarakishi]

the feeling when you wait for the mic preamp you want to buy to come up used on reverb, but it doesn't for 2 years, and then when it finally does for a good price you lowball offer it even lower and its accepted immediately... heres to hoping it arrives safely...

[dubkitty]

[redacted...the relationship didn't work out.]

i adopted a dog in May, a really special dog i already knew and loved. last year Becky got a French bulldog pup from a breeder, which turned out to have a severe heart valve defect which was tipped to kill him within a year. so with a heavy heart she returned him to the breeder. it broke my heart because i loved that little fucker to pieces...i told her that if it was my decision i'd keep him and if i only had 6 months with him i'd be grateful for that time, but it wasn't my $4000. yes, they really are that expensive. so after he went back to the breeder he was adopted out to a family in NC, but they couldn't keep him. he can't be neutered because anesthesia would probably kill him and thus there were irresolvable conflicts with their two pre-existing dogs, so the poor baby needed to be rehomed. the breeder contacted Becky and asked if she could take him or knew someone who could. she couldn't because she has two dogs already (including the Frenchie she finally adopted who's healthy...the breed has been severely over-bred and birth defects of one kind or another are heartbreakingly common) but she knew i loved him and arranged for me to get him. i drove down to southern VA to meet the owner halfway; when she pulled up and rolled down the back window of her RAV4 he climbed out the window straight into my arms. he totally remembered me and his old name from when Becky had him, and it's been a doggo love-fest ever since. he's a challenge sometimes as you might expect from an intact male dog, but we're doing training classes and he's really coming along.

and my psychiatrist got me on a new antidepressant that actually makes me feel much less depressed, and a mood stabilizer that actually stabilizes my moods. i feel like i'm on a relatively even keel for the first time since the late 80s when everything went wrong in my world. [redacted]

[redacted]

i'm resonably happy with muself and my life, remarkably enough. i'm going to quit dating for awhile and concentrate on getting myself in order. i started doing this during the recent relationship and plan on continuing till i'm in good enough shape that i can do hard things.

this is Gizmo the dog. share my happiness.

just look at that face!

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and he's pedalboard-friendly! or at least pedalboard-adjacent LOL.