Clare_Bear's smiley happy thread

Alnico

Started my new driving contract on Monday. When I went into the office to report for duty I discovered that my new boss is my best friend from school that I haven't seen since 1989 !
We lost touch when he moved away after we finished our GCSE's and as there were no mobile phones or Internet back then, that was that until Monday.
It's been the happiest week of my working life and he is going to take me on full time before Christmas.

I honestly couldn't think of a better ending to a very difficult year.

richardhomer

monquixote;330183" said:

My daughter was trying to talk about the microwave, but she doesn't know the word microwave yet so she called it the "dinner cupboard". 

This is both amusing and impressive

That's brilliant.

When my son was very young he saw someone using a microphone on TV - same thing - he didn't know what it was called. He came up with 'spokey'.

Now he's 12 he hates being reminded of it but it just shows how great a child's desire to communicate is. Watching them grow is endlessly fascinating....

Lixarto

I've learned a colleague is friends with Danny Bryant.

Whilst I have Mr Bryant potentially filed as Yet Another White Bluesman, I will report after the upcoming show I have been invited to.

Bucket

Gibson Flying V + Mesa Mark 4 (clean) + Way Huge Green Rhino + Maxon Fire fuzz + TC Flashback + Purple Rain solo.

Fucking hell, sounded epic if I say so myself

lloyd

Just got the first 'drafts' of our EP through, sounds great even if I do say so myself! Bit of tweaking and I'll be made up

Lixarto

Lixarto said:

 Yet Another White Bluesman

Well, yes for the most part I am afraid so.

He can certainly play, but like almost all these chaps he doesn't fucking stop. Not all the songs need multiple endless pentatonic solos in them, you know?

Having said that, without those solos some of the songs would have been revealed as being very thin. You need to be a very talented songwriter to make your bog standard 12-bar blues interesting to the casual listener[1].

Danny would have been a good player in pre-1987 Whitesnake (like a lot of these guys, making him a sideman would probably bring the best out in him) but the couple of good songs he does have ("Just As I Am", and the exceptionally good "Master of Disaster"[2]) were worth the price of the ticket

Decent night out mind


[1] Which is why Status Quo have had 40+ hits and SRV has had, well, none.

[2] I have belatedly found out this was written by John Hiatt - hey ho

Hertz32

Its my birthday, and my girlfriend has made me a mixtape.
Holy shit. I cant even.

Bucket

Bit tipsy, in a really great mood. Day off tomorrow, going to play lots of guitar. Oooh, and a band rehearsal tomorrow too. Sweet.

monquixote

richardhomer said:

monquixote;330183" said:

My daughter was trying to talk about the microwave, but she doesn't know the word microwave yet so she called it the "dinner cupboard". 

This is both amusing and impressive

That's brilliant.

When my son was very young he saw someone using a microphone on TV - same thing - he didn't know what it was called. He came up with 'spokey'.

Now he's 12 he hates being reminded of it but it just shows how great a child's desire to communicate is. Watching them grow is endlessly fascinating....

Awesome

Had a new one today. 

Bubblewrap is called "Beeps" for obvious reasons. 

The bubblewrap lined Jiffy Bags I use to ship pedals around in are called "Pedal Beeps"

VimFuego

just got some money for nothing. Many moons ago, a pension was taken out for me by my then employer with standard life. When they demutualised I got a handful of shares. Never thought that much about them TBH, other than once in a while a dividend chq for through the door, as I never paid into the pension. Anyways, got some bills to pay and I suddenly remembered these free shares, so thought I'd better see how much their worth (seem to recall looking a few years back and it was not a lot) but it turns out they're now worth a few quid. When the bills are settled I should be left with about £700 of me money. I was thinking of buying a shiny or two, but thought probably guitar lessons may be a better option. S'funny, but buying skills doesn't seem half as exciting as buying shinies, even though I am pretty happy with all the gear I have (and my skills are poor to the extreme).

boogieman

VimFuego;356438" said:

just got some money for nothing. Many moons ago, a pension was taken out for me by my then employer with standard life. When they demutualised I got a handful of shares. Never thought that much about them TBH, other than once in a while a dividend chq for through the door, as I never paid into the pension. Anyways, got some bills to pay and I suddenly remembered these free shares, so thought I'd better see how much their worth (seem to recall looking a few years back and it was not a lot) but it turns out they're now worth a few quid. When the bills are settled I should be left with about £700 of me money. I was thinking of buying a shiny or two, but thought probably guitar lessons may be a better option. S'funny, but buying skills doesn't seem half as exciting as buying shinies, even though I am pretty happy with all the gear I have (and my skills are poor to the extreme).

Always nice to get unexpected money, nice one! And yeah I'd go for shiny new stuff too. >:D<

I had a similar kind of thing happen to me. My dad and I worked for the same company at one time. When he retired he found out he was getting two pension payments. It turned out one was actually mine (we had the same initials), which I didn't even know I was entitled to. Worth a couple of hundred a month too. Noice!

Phil_aka_Pip

Plonked my Tannoy studio monitors on top of some KEF stand-mounted speakers (ideally I'd like the Tannoys on brackets or shelves on the end wall). Wired up the Quad 303 to them, got out the Yamaha AW16G workstation, wired it up to the Quad. WA HAY! Can play back recordings that were already stashed in there and they sound fine.

Next job: get the Studiomaster 16:8:2 desk wired. L/R to the Quad, start fixing up the instrument feeds to it, route the AW16G o/p to a pair of its inputs, take one of its subgroups to a pair of AW16G inputs. I'll be laughing if I can get that done before the end of today.

Note to self: those rubber things that hide wires trailing across the floor would be V V USEFUL

EDIT

The desk works

Don't know where the SR-16 is, and the Rhodes Stage Piano is too heavy for me to set up on my own.

Further note to self: get an in-line power switch for the 303.

mike_l

I are had a fantastic week in Cornwall. Spending time with my 2 closest friends, ones wife and 2yo daughter has been brilliant.

I are has a job interview on Wednesday evening.

I did meet RocknRollDave top bloke.

 

mike_l

And Liverpool lost 3-1 to my beloved West Ham......... 

littlegreenman

mike_l said:

And Liverpool lost 3-1 to my beloved West Ham......... 

As a Blue I can feel your pain at such a result

mike_l

Best of the result is Woody is a Liverpool "supporter" (IE, he's never been to a match, and only knows what he's read in the paper....)

No there won't be any piss-taking from me next week. Honest Guv.

Phil_aka_Pip

Had help with the Rhodes. The DJX is now wired in also. Still looking for the SR-16

viz

^ whatever that means

viz

So it's Peace One Day today and to support it, Basement Jaxx have released an EP of Power To The People, one of the songs off their new album, Junto. The EP is made up of contributions from artists around the world. I'm absolutely delighted to say that one of my contributions is on the 1st mash-up, and the other one is included in its entirety as track 7, under the guise of 'The Jazz Basement'. Go on, buy it for 99p and donate to a worthy cause! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10150478447974956&id=54769409955&ref=m_notif&notif_t=notify_me&actorid=54769409955

Phil_aka_Pip

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Had help with the Rhodes. The DJX is now wired in also. Still looking for the SR-16

See Sept 20 post