This is the smaller of the three mountains i made yesterday. Unfortunately the big one, i finished after dark, and the sun and rising temperatures shrunk it this morning.



It was like digging trenches for the Great War, man. My chest muscles and right elbow are busted up pretty good today.

Is he drumming in it?

It looks it. I hope you were wearing your gas mask.

He guitars. His bro drums, real solid drummer too. Just a singular slow blast the whole night, but tons of quick breakdowny footwork. They put on a good show, it's just ya know, I don't really dig that kinda stuff (anymore ) is all. He knows that though, we were cracking jokes about it. He doesn't really spend a bunch of time listening to it himself or at all, from what I can tell.

There is a name I haven't heard in a while. This place has been around long enough I wonder how people's tastes have changed over the years, especially the younger folks. I know mine were not fully formed when I started poasting on fora whenever ago. Most of what I was amenable to conceptually was there, but the percentages were very different, and there are things I adored at 20 I wouldn't touch at 30 just because it didn't move me anymore even if it's competent for what it is. Most metal, actually, though I'll still play it- but as a bass player, and I have an unusual approach that's coming from other sources. Prog stuff in general, too. And I like nastier, more abrasive sonics now- go figure. When the slick production metal thing was new, I embraced it, and things like In Flames' Whoracle or Grip Inc.'s Nemesis sound dated for the genre now- the natural drums are a dead giveaway. Sepultura, Fear Factory, Type O, etc. all that late '90s stuff. I thought the polish on it was great. It meant something to me, and I felt that was a really creative time for that sort of music; boundaries were being pushed in interesting ways. Now it's nostalgia and I don't connect as a person 'cause I don't relate to the content or the subculture that it came from- which has changed, too- anymore.

Pretty much. Being familiar with Nick Cave should be an acceptable form of age verification in absence of ID.

Oh okay. Because someone who looks exactly like him posted a pic of themself at a gig in r/drums and I was like, 'Dewysoss'?

Of course I can't find it anymore...

Haha yeah, they look waaaay similar, his brother's just got glasses and a beard.

Unfortunately, i have no mask. I was humming various bits from this:



And continually remarking to no one in particular that "we have surely got them on the run now boys, once more over the top!"

The gasmask would really have gone a whole other level for making my neighbors uneasy though. I really do require one.

ok, have not been on here but here's why. Well and the hell death sickness. deep in the chest, need to see a doctor about this. Day 3 of no plows still, so our neighborhood all took to shovels and we made a path to the main street. Bad thing is I am at the farthest away from the main street.....

New output transformer day - The AOR will live once again.

Shit man, that sucks lots. You don't need a shovel, you need a snowmobile. Or perhaps a community snowblower.

Also, sounds like you will need a round of antibiotics.

Your snow amount looks similar to what we got, but we had plows all up in this piece pretty much continually, so our street had enough coverage for x-country skis, but was still totally passable, vehicularly.

Shoveling help is, i am convinced, one of the main reasons my parents had four kids. The only problem is that you need the kids to get big enough and strong enough to make a full sized shovel work well enough. I'll tell you though, i was kind of wishing for some available older child labor when i was moving my mountains. My arms/back/legs are still making me feel like a 90 year old, three days later.

Whollyfuck, man. Seeing your poast and Chris's, Buffalo had it easy; I even rehearsed that night. Driving sucked, but shit's melting here now. We only got like a foot, and that isn't- or wasn't, pre-really observable climate change- unusual here this time of year. That is an epic mess. I hope your illness sorts out easily, good sir, and that it isn't something too severe.

here on LI, seems like my hamlet got the worst. Lucky me! Really had a lot a varying accumulations. Where I work they got around 8"-12". When I got up to the main street, it wasn't plowed down to the asphalt, there's still 3 inches of packed now. I didn't see paved road for 3 miles when I got to the Long Island Expressway. FUKT.

Someone dropped the ball here.

Yes I believe I need Dr prescribed drugs at this point. I was surprisingly not as sore as I thought I was going to be after the shovelling. Might have to do with the training though. Totally different muscles though, maybe it will kick in more tomorrow.

On a different note, I got an email from Maker's Mark. They can't keep up with demand, so they have devised a method of producing Maker's Mark with 3% less alcohol, yet ratain the flavor.






I call bullshit.

Yarr, i could feel my elbow the day of The Dig, but it wasn't really until the middle of yesterday that my parts all started to lodge their complaints with the body parts bureau. The muscles in my back and right bicep/chest region are the main ones still holding down the protest today. That and the funny bruise on my leg where i must have started to use it as a lifting fulcrum later in the day when my elbow started to go wonky. It was about 6.5 hours of nonstop shoveling, so i did pretty much expect a couple days of beat-up-from-the-feet-up-ness. Trench digging muscles are totally different than drumming muscles.

Also, i would agree. I don't believe one can trust reduced alcohol, reduced caffeine, reduced sugar, reduced fat, etc. products. That is specifically, not those products claims of being equally as delicious as the full tilt versions.

Of course, with booze, i suppose there is only one way to really find out. Like, after you do your week or two of antibiotics, anyhow.

I was somewhat fortunate with the shovelling. a few years ago my mother bought me a toro power shovel, like a mini snowblower, it's good for 1-maybe 5 inches of snow. It's also surprisingly heavy for a device. but you're just supposed to push it along the ground.

Why do that when you can wield it like a weapon? So I shortened up the length, and made continuous passes, it would take 4-5 inches of snow at a pass and fling it to the side as I twisted right to left. I could go through about 10-15 passes before I had to stop because of shortness of breath. It ended up making a nice 6 foot wide path and I could go about 2 feet before I had to stop. 3 Hours Sat. 6 hours yesterday.

There's something so awesome about big fucking transformers. A mojo.

Its rather large! Full bandwidth up to 140W output!

Lovely Brutality therein lies.