teuast

I've posted a pic of this guitar before, but it's a 1995 Yamaha Pacifica 102S that I recently got used for cheap. It's my first T-type and I've been having a blast playing it, but like the video says, it came with saddle height screws that were too long, so I decided to try modding it. This was also the first time I've really done any tinkering with one of my guitars.

It reads like it was written in about April of 2020, but I actually wrote the skeleton of it for a TTRPG party I was setting up with some friends while I was unemployed back in 2019, although I did come up with the title after people started saying “the before times” to refer to pre-Covid and I put together a lot of the details (including the existence of Covid in the alternate history timeline) through the shutdowns.

It’s been a back-burner type of project for a while since I haven’t actually run a campaign in it in about two years, but since I had the materials for it, I figured I’d share it.

If you have feedback, please pass it along! And if you want to use it as inspiration for your own campaigns, feel free, as long as you let me know what you come up with.

(copied from my other post)

In addition to teaching lots of private lessons and directing three teenage performance groups, I also direct an adult band, which currently has eight people between about 30 and 70 in it. I'm 28 and my codirector is in his 30s, but this week, he was out, so the school owner guy, who's in his 40s, subbed for him, making me the youngest person in the room by a margin of at least ten years.

In past iterations of this adult band, we've had some non-parent members, but right now, everyone in the band is a parent, and the owner guy also is, so this past week, I was also the only non-parent in the room, so naturally, everybody was passing around Father's Day well-wishes. And inevitably, one of the moms asked me, "what about you, teuast? Do you have any kids?" So of course I said no, and she said "Oh, not yet."

Not yet. Lol. I have a vasectomy and a girlfriend with a bisalp.

I did tell my girlfriend about it and she was suitably derisive, but in the moment I just let it slide off me. Nothing to be gained from explaining what's going on with my balls to a bunch of geezers at my work who I'm not sleeping with. And it's not going to come up again for at least another year, because, again, at work.

Tickle my ivories, baby

I found the Guitars community pretty easily and was excited to join it, but didn't find one for my primary instrument, keys. I figured I couldn't be the only one in that position, so I set one up. If you like keys-based music, stop on by! (hey, that was a drawbar organ joke)

I hope I did this correctly. I'm new to Lemmy and not really sure what I'm doing, and tbf it kinda feels a bit like the Wild West out here post-Spezhole, so please let me know if I mucked it up somehow.

I was coming off my gravel ride today and heading to work when I saw a roadie ahead of me, and so I put my head down and tried to close the gap for a bit of an interval effort. He was really moving, so I had to really work for it, but I did get on his wheel eventually. After I'd had a chance to catch my breath, I came up next to him and said something like "hope you didn't mind me catching a wheel for a second there," which he didn't.

Then he commented on my dirty gravel bike and asked what the trail conditions are like in the area, because he'd been just on the road for a few months and hadn't hit the dirt in a while, and so I filled him in. He thanked me, we complimented each other's bikes, and then our routes split and we went our separate ways.

It was just a nice, friendly interaction of the type that you can't have on a freeway. And imagine, if bike commuting was commonplace, we could all be having those kinds of interactions all the time. Instead, we're all isolated from each other in metal boxes on wheels, and that sucks.

Full disclosure: this is my band and this is shameless self-promotion, but we just played a set at Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco, and it was super cool. I'm on keys, and I had also just played drums on the opening band's set, so I was both a little razzled and a lot tired, but I still played OK for the most part. Our guitarist and singer were the real stars of the show, though.

Also, hi! Just found Lemmy. /u/spez can suck it.