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@ Deadovic I'd like to hope you were just having a bad day and the suicide thing was a bit of hyperbole for dramatic effect. Believe me I know how some women can drive you nuts with their inexorable need to spend money that you don't have simply because they want things and they just don't feel it's fair that they should ever be denied anything that they want. I remember my late wife asking me one time how much money was left at the end of the month so she'd know how much she had available to play with. I showed her that there wasn't anything left over to play with and in fact we were dipping into my savings each month because there was a $300 shortfall. I told her I was waiting for her to finish breast feeding the baby so she could go back to work in the states like she did when she lived in NZ, just as we had discussed before she moved here and got pregnant. None of that mattered to her, it all went in one ear and out the other. She didn't make any effort to change her ridiculous & frivolous spending habits and neither did she make any effort to look for work. Shoppintg on her tablet and watching Netflix was like her full time job, the baby was just her excuse to stay home and do it. I also remember the night I changed the Paypal password without telling her and how mad she got the next day when she went to buy something online and couldn't. But it had to be done. And 3 days later when she started talking to me again she admitted that I had done the right thing. Unfortunately that strategy backfired on me because then she had to make her own Paypal account and she started selling some of the stuff that she had bought to raise money to buy more stuff. It wasn't the stuff itself that she really wanted it was simply the act of locating and acquiring and accumulating that stuff that she was addicted to. The bitch just wanted to buy shit. She ordered a couple hundred plastic mailing envelopes so whenever she sold some of her crap she'd get it all packed up and addressed and ready for shipping and then she'd leave little bundles of joy on the kitchen table for me to take to work with me in the morning so I could mail it off for her when I passed by a post office somewhere in my travels during my day. Guess who paid the shipping costs? Whenever she sold something the payment would go directly into her Paypal account and then she'd use that money to buy more stuff. I was the idiot who got stuck paying to ship it all over the country. But I guess paying her shipping was still a lot cheaper than the phase when she bought like $10,000 worth of cloth diapers (@$50 a pop shipped) and baby clothes. Even as the boy approached 3 and we knew he was going to be potty trained soon she just kept buying, selling & trading the stupid diapers with the beautifl prints that only we ever got to see when we changed him because he had pants covering them up the rest of the time. I still have a bunch of them in a box somewhere because they seem too valuable to just throw away, even though I know I'm never in a million years going to go on that Twinkie Tush website and list them for sale. Same with all her piles of $300-$400 Frye boots she just had to have and then wore once or twice at most. Can't bring myself to just throw away $400 boots even though I'll never figure out how to sell them. I wish I knew a chick who wore size 8.5/9 boots. (NZ 39) It's a sickness and an addiction that destroys lives like alcoholism or drugs or gambling that should be dealt with the same way. They need to have interventions and rehab for shopaholics. Gonna catch flak for this no doubt....but fuck it I'm gonna say it anyway. Deadovic if I were you I would be looking into the pros and cons of divorce, not suicide. True if you divorce her you'll still have to pay her and she'll still be spending your money but at least you should know up front how much it will be every month so you can budget and plan. No woman, or let's say no partner is ever worth killing yourself over.

Anthrax - Persistence of Time

Whoops, sorry about typo. it's actually out tomorrow!

Morbid Angel - Covenant Eternal Evil - The Warriors Awakening Brings The Unholy Slaughter

I honestly think the death of Aleah broke Juha. His headspace seem to be totally different compared to the early StS albums. Can't blame him though.

Thank you. There are plenty of bands I like - old Paradise Lost, Cathedral, Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Type O Negative, Entombed, Dismember, old Amorphis, Carcass. But mostly Paradise Lost, Black Sabbath, Type O Negative

Ahh Thankyou guys for your input! I guess in general is the creativity part of it. I've seen so many Matt Mercer videos that it makes it seem overwhelming to me since hes an awesome DM.

Lamp of Murmuur - Submission and Slavery Lamp of Murmuur - Punishment and Devotion

Whiplash - Power And Pain

Cheers, Navy, and Happy Thanksgiving. I was just thinking about you and hoping you were well.

Toxik - World Circus

The worst thing about being a DM is creating a world, writing out a huge campaign, and then having nobody around to play it because they all went to college. This happened to me and it was irritating as hell, and is what made me put away my D&D rulebooks as something from teenage years now gone. The thing is, I probably still have the campaign data somewhere in my house. In some forgotten box in my closet.

Wearing a band T-shirt or not depends on what I'm up to - and the weather. I have a Terra Tenabrosa shirt that I have never worn because my wife hates the cuckoo. I have never worn a band T-shirt to work either, but that is no longer an issue since - and here is the big news I hinted at a few weeks ago, GG - I saw my last patient 2 days ago and will be retired at the end of the month. I am past official retirement age at 66 and I should think that would officially make me the Oldest Bastard here.

Bland is the death of music, whatever the genre. Bland means why bother listening?

It's just so incredibly commercial and watered down. And yes bland. I find it very hard to believe sometimes that I was such a big Dark Tranquility fan in the 2000's up til 2007. Although this particular song was much blander and unmemorable than early/mid 2000's DT. This is why I rarely find much to like on major labels anymore. Not because only the most obscure kvlt bands will do but because commercially viable music is just so completely devoid of substance, like empty calories. The whole time I'm thinking I could be listening to something good right now.

MasterChef sucks for making cheap things expensive. Lamb shanks in this country used to be the one cut of lamb that very few people bought so they were cheap. In the last 10 years or so since MasterChef started using them they increased in price by something like 5x that before MasterChef. Once it was on tv it suddenly became fashionable to eat something most people just ignored. I didn't eat a whole elephant so it wasn't a big meal Elephant tastes kind of like venison, strong and bold. The bit I had, which was from behind the ear, was not tough to eat but it was kind of muscley (if that's a word), again a bit like venison. If presented with the chance again I wouldn't say no, but I'd also be happy to try something else. I'm always careful not to name the animals like that. My wife refuses to eat kanagroo because I used to call it Skippy and pretty much everyone in Australia knows the 70's (maybe 80's) TV show of the same name about a kid and his pet kangaroo. She's also not found of lamb because she had a toy lamb when she was a kid and naming dinner Lambie was an early mistake I made. Strangely enough she's not too worried about cows we rear in the house paddock which we name Freezer Meat. She's also not worried if we eat Porky Pig.

Man, that's quite a lot of advance notice, I'll put it on the calendar I guess.