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My boss phoned me earlier and informed me I have been awarded a pay rise.  A year of hard work has paid off (literally).

RelentlessOblivion
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Today's been pretty great. Weather wasn't great but who cares. Caught up with the girlfriend and our guide dogs decided they don't want to kill each other so yay :D. Lost track of time and suddenly re

MacabreEternal
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You know what I retract my whinging statement about the car earlier as two things occurred today that had far more meaning and impact.  Firstly, tonight at the local takeaway a deaf and mute lady had

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Goody! Got nice grades back on my essays, and now I get to do reading for World War II...so I'm going to read about the Winter War! Also a bit on the good old Vought Corsair. I've got Vanilla Coke and Doritos, should be a fun evening.

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Goody! Got nice grades back on my essays, and now I get to do reading for World War II...so I'm going to read about the Winter War! Also a bit on the good old Vought Corsair. I've got Vanilla Coke and Doritos, should be a fun evening.
There definitely needs to be some battle hungry death metal playing when you're doing research on war, it should get you in the right mood to write about it.
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There definitely needs to be some battle hungry death metal playing when you're doing research on war' date=' it should get you in the right mood to write about it.[/quote'] I'm going to try to set up a playlist with Battlelore, Amoral, and Amorphis, but chances are some Sabaton will get in as well.
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My day ended up shitty. It looks like my boss spent too much fucking money yet again, and now we don't have enough left to cover essentials like payroll. It took about 5 years to get him out of that habit, and only about 6 months for him to slide right back into it. I'm sick of having to pick up his fucking messes, I think I'm going to tell him that if he wants to keep fucking up the books he can just do the accounting himself.

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Today has been a bit better. Nothing has come in to alleviate the stress of how much my boss spent and that we don't have enough to cover expenses, but I'm looking forward to the weekend and hopefully signing on with that Confessor dude's project. It sounds pretty interesting and it would be nice to do something different, even if it may be temporary, and expand my repertoire a bit.

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hopefully signing on with that Confessor dude's project. It sounds pretty interesting and it would be nice to do something different' date=' even if it may be temporary, and expand my repertoire a bit.[/quote'] Who's project?
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Who's project?
There was a new user named Confessor that posted a request in the Introductions thread for a vocalist to aid in the completion of his doom/gothic/prog EP. He was looking for a growler and possibly a clean male or female vocals, so I hit him up with a video of one of our performances, and it sounds like he liked my vocals and wants to move forward. I may require some assistance and/or equipment from you and/or Edgar for microphones and software, but he will be handling all of the production and mixing, so there shouldn't be any cost involved for me.
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There was a new user named Confessor that posted a request in the Introductions thread for a vocalist to aid in the completion of his doom/gothic/prog EP. He was looking for a growler and possibly a clean male or female vocals' date=' so I hit him up with a video of one of our performances, and it sounds like he liked my vocals and wants to move forward. I may require some assistance and/or equipment from you and/or Edgar for microphones and software, but he will be handling all of the production and mixing, so there shouldn't be any cost involved for me.[/quote'] That sounds like fun! Let me know when you want to get down and I'll see if I've got the time, and appropriate equipment.
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That sounds like fun! Let me know when you want to get down and I'll see if I've got the time' date=' and appropriate equipment.[/quote'] I told him that we have microphones and a 4 track recorder in the jam space, and in his response he didn't mention anything about needing additional equipment. It may be better to record the vocals digitally though so they can be easily transmitted via e-mail and mixed in with what he's already doing. The music is pretty cool, definitely not what I was expecting, but I enjoyed it. Really heavy on keyboards, and an almost uplifting atmosphere with some pretty unique riffing and songwriting.
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