raph on 20/8/2021 at 14:42
Quote Posted by ajay
I got back to building airplane models. The hobby was absent during my whole teens and twenties. Now, during the pandemic, I found it again amusing.
Very cool! :D Is that a Bf 109?
I finished a PBY Catalina last year that I had received several birthdays ago... First model since I was a teenager! Not the best but not too shabby :cheeky:
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http://www.freylia.net/images/20210820_163902.jpgSombras on 20/8/2021 at 18:34
Wrote a novel and published enough stories to turn them into a fiction collection. They'll be coming out in 2022.
ajay on 21/8/2021 at 19:58
Quote Posted by raph
Very cool! :D Is that a Bf 109?
I finished a PBY Catalina last year that I had received several birthdays ago... First model since I was a teenager! Not the best but not too shabby :cheeky:
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http://www.freylia.net/images/20210820_163902.jpgYeah, that's 109 [emoji3] together with mig-15 and mig-17.
I always liked how Catalina looks! Think you motivated me to get one.
ajay on 21/8/2021 at 20:02
Quote Posted by Sombras
Wrote a novel and published enough stories to turn them into a fiction collection. They'll be coming out in 2022.
Maybe you could let us know once it's available?
PigLick on 22/8/2021 at 11:39
holy shit Sombras! Good to see you again.
also dont go to the members list and sort by posts, which I just did. So many names there I had (almost) forgotten about. Gave me some weird ass feels, like a dusty breeze passing me by in an underpass.
Tocky on 24/8/2021 at 04:01
Quote Posted by Sombras
Wrote a novel and published enough stories to turn them into a fiction collection. They'll be coming out in 2022.
We will all buy and read them but we will be too cool to tell you we liked them.
Sombras on 25/8/2021 at 21:46
Quote Posted by ajay
Maybe you could let us know once it's available?
Totally.
Quote Posted by PigLick
holy shit Sombras! Good to see you again. also dont go to the members list and sort by posts, which I just did. So many names there I had (almost) forgotten about. Gave me some weird ass feels, like a dusty breeze passing me by in an underpass.
Roger-wilco. I know that feeling. It's like reading ancient journal entries. Like, "Holy fuck, that was a weird time. Why was I like that???"
Quote Posted by Tocky
We will all buy and read them but we will be too cool to tell you we liked them.
Ha! But not too cool to post about how much you hated them! :laff:
fett on 11/9/2021 at 07:10
Well.
I was two weeks away from a launch party with the first original band I'd put together since before my heart transplant. I spent about a year vetting and rehearsing players (simple music but tons of vocal work/harmonies). Secured management and PR, and jointly dumped more money than I care to think about into a Friday night headline in Ocean City with banging pre-sales. Covid hits. Everything is shit canned. Took about a month to lose the band since it was obvious this was going to be a long dark night for live music. Especially painful because it was also the first album I've ever done that was 100%e, no hired guns, no samples.
So I tried to make lemonade. I rebranded as an online artist playing four versions of myself as different band members. Slightly campy but mostly subtle. My video budget gone since there was no gig or merch income, I resorted to filming low budget videos in my basement, ended up doing a out 5 of them with varying degrees of production and just trying to have fun with it. It's called Kyd Kalydoscope and I've posted some of it around here but this is a good example:
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https://youtu.be/_UdwKvSxQec)
The first video hit about 13K views on YouTube and the others ended up in in the 8000 range. This also involved me learning video editing from scratch, which is pretty obvious from the quality.
Then we moved from PA to CA. Our kids are looking at college in LA and SF, the nursing pay is better, and Covid was on the decline here at the time. We'd moved to PA for the transplant at Penn State but didn't really love it. This involved us selling our house, buying a camper and learning how to pull and camp it (this allowed me to avoid restaurants, hotels, public bathrooms, etc. on the way to CA since I'm immune comp'd). Wife took a job with a travel nurse company and we got here in Nov. and lived in Airbnb's to get the lay of the land (San Jose, Concord, Napa, Berkeley...). I resumed the Kyd thing but my drum kit was in storage along with most everything else waiting for us to find a permanent home in CA. So the videos became a little more challenging, given that it's all guitar and drum based dad/power pop/rock stuff. But it kind of worked:
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https://youtu.be/PIgLetBGYT4)
Eventually, between getting raped by Spotify and FB and IG screwing up their traffic analytics, I decided to put the music thing on hold until I can support with a live band.
By the time we settled permanently here in East Bay, I was able to finally write about 30 episodes of a podcast idea I'd been brooding on for a few years. All the podcasts for transplant people are about clinical/medical stuff so I focused mine on peripheral issues and it's done pretty well (500 downloads and counting). I also finally started a podcast centered on King's X, the obscure band I've loved for 30 years. Only in the fourth episode but already around 500 downloads as well.
Not sure what's next. I'm fighting a possible Covid infection ATM, but barring that, I hope to be back out playing music and such by October.
Oh, also re-edited my autobiography about the whole transplant thing too. Seems like there were a lot of loose strings that needed thing up, so hopefully I've used the time wisely.
P.S. SOMBRAS!!
Gray on 12/9/2021 at 03:42
Well, um, my story is a lot less dramatic than most. I was bored. For the last 13 years, I've been playing World of Warcraft every day, but.... meh. You get bored. So I dug up some old games. KOTOR2. SS2. Yeah, that one. After about two weeks of SS2 I started longing for ShockEd, and all the ambitions and ideas I had 20 years ago but never made anything of. But with my ME/CFS, I'm pretty thick now. Brain = goo. Memory gone. So, I had to relearn everything, read all the old tutorials, and the new ones to slowly figure out that there's a Newdark thingy now, and being a complete halfwit now it took me bloody ages to get it installed and working.
I'll probably never produce anything useful to other people, but at least, I'm forcing my brain to try to think again, and that's probably good on some level. If nothing else I can at least pretend to be clever once I get something to work properly. So far I still suck at architecture but can do most of the logic control thingies I aim for, link triggers to so-and-so, and make thingy go blah-de-blah. Good enough for me. Two days from now I'll probably invent a problem I can't solve and will have to ask for help.
Starker on 12/9/2021 at 16:23
Quote Posted by fett
Not sure what's next. I'm fighting a possible Covid infection ATM, but barring that, I hope to be back out playing music and such by October.
Way to bury the lede! You okay?
