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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Well, well, well...... life is strange isn't it? Appears my business is splitting the currently combined SE Asia and ANZ operations into two separate groups and my department will thus be divided into two smaller units one based in Singapore and the other in Melbourne. What this means is my job will disappear this Friday and be replaced by two smaller ones. So for the first time in 16 years I will be looking for work. Bit of a shock to say the least. The Vice President I reported to from a functional perspective is also moving on.

On the 'plus' side of things, I've been going back an forth between Australia and Singapore each month for 3 years now...so more time at home with the family.

Life has a way of smacking you down when you get too comfortable doesn't it?

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5 minutes ago, True Belief said:

Well, well, well...... life is strange isn't it? Appears my business is splitting the currently combined SE Asia and ANZ operations into two separate groups and my department will thus be divided into two smaller units one based in Singapore and the other in Melbourne. What this means is my job will disappear this Friday and be replaced by two smaller ones. So for the first time in 16 years I will be looking for work. Bit of a shock to say the least. The Vice President I reported to from a functional perspective is also moving on.

On the 'plus' side of things, I've been going back an forth between Australia and Singapore each month for 3 years now...so more time at home with the family.

Life has a way of smacking you down when you get too comfortable doesn't it?

Wow dude, that sounds like a real blow with the new house and everything you've already got on your plate. Are they giving you a severance package? Got any prospects in mind? Best wishes to you and your family.

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Sorry I haven't been around much guys it takes a lot of work to plan a trip like this one to LA. Sorting out accomodation that's affordable, booking tickets for the days of racing, working out the best means of transportation, other activities for the days bro isn't racing, and in amongst all that day-to-day life is still happening.

 

Can you tell I'm super excited? 'Cause I am. Also genuinely loving life right now.

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44 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

The metal is pumping, coffee is brewing, and bacon is sizzling. Could there possibly be a better way to start my day?

Couldn´t be much more the opposite from what i have. :D 

About to go to bed, way too late too but out of my sleepy pills (forgot to visit pharma) and kinda in the zombie mode. But hey, metal here too! :) 

I hope your day continues in succesfull fashion.

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I got this archaic table top digital recording studio thing Made by Roland in the late 90's that uses a virtually dated drive, zip drive, anyway the drive seems to be dead, and the dream.. well it's not dead,

 

Ok this stupid post is pointless, it's a box my friend spent $5- on , but I don't have a good way to record, that's all, and I think that trying to record would improve my skills, so let me phrase this as a question. What is an easy way to record some stuff. You know I have a four track that works OK, I just need to set up my drum kit and learn something rudimentary

 

It is time to get over the apprehension that I'm not skilled enough to get started, I have all the things I need to sketch out some songs or whatever, I'm not looking to make a finished product straight out of the gate, what I need to do is get more broadly in tune with what a song or some-such needs. 

 

And apparently ladies and gentlemen, that is what is on my mind.

 

That and my youngest daughter has renamed herself with a boys name and wants to go by the gender neutral, albeit plural pronouns they, them, theirs and such, so that is on my mind a little as well. Non-binary gender identification seems to be specifically what is up there. So yeah, also on my mind a bit, and I think it's for real. The kid is turning 14 in just a few days. I'd like to lay thing on the internet, and the endocrine disrupting qualities of the shampoo and the fucking Bovine Growth Hormone in the cheese we eat, but that seems a little facile.

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I got this archaic table top digital recording studio thing Made by Roland in the late 90's that uses a virtually dated drive, zip drive, anyway the drive seems to be dead, and the dream.. well it's not dead,

 

Ok this stupid post is pointless, it's a box my friend spent $5- on , but I don't have a good way to record, that's all, and I think that trying to record would improve my skills, so let me phrase this as a question. What is an easy way to record some stuff. You know I have a four track that works OK, I just need to set up my drum kit and learn something rudimentary

 

It is time to get over the apprehension that I'm not skilled enough to get started, I have all the things I need to sketch out some songs or whatever, I'm not looking to make a finished product straight out of the gate, what I need to do is get more broadly in tune with what a song or some-such needs. 

 

And apparently ladies and gentlemen, that is what is on my mind.

 

That and my youngest daughter has renamed herself with a boys name and wants to go by the gender neutral, albeit plural pronouns they, them, theirs and such, so that is on my mind a little as well. Non-binary gender identification seems to be specifically what is up there. So yeah, also on my mind a bit, and I think it's for real. The kid is turning 14 in just a few days. I'd like to lay thing on the internet, and the endocrine disrupting qualities of the shampoo and the fucking Bovine Growth Hormone in the cheese we eat, but that seems a little facile.

It may be possible to replace the faulty drive - depending on what model the Roland is, you may even be able to convert it to take SD cards, which have no moving parts and are not yet obsolete. It will take a bit of fiddling and probably some wizardry on your part. If you don't want to go that route, I highly recommend an affordable computer-based setup. Focusrite's USB interfaces are a good place to start, and Reaper is a good-sounding, full-featured recording program that won't break the bank. The learning curve may be a bit steep, but it's worth it. Do you have any microphones? Also, knowing your aversion to anything too synthetic, are you willing to try your hand at basic drum programming? It's a great songwriting tool.

As far as your daughter goes, it may very well be for real, and looking for an environmental cause won't be productive. The individuation process is nothing to be trifled with. I know other people who say that they never felt like themselves until they accepted their own non-binary gender identity. I don't think there's anything you can do but respect their choices and see how it plays out - not that I'd imagine you doing anything else. I could certainly understand misgivings about it, though, it's a tough road to walk. Good luck to them, and to you.

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Kinda annoyed with djent. Don´t know exactly why. Feels like it´s like the new nu-metal or something. Please love djent if you do, not bothered. Still just seeing the word alone makes my aggro levels grow. Thank god theres music to sink my extra aggrenaline into. :D 

I'm not really annoyed by djent so much as.... bands like.... I don't even want to type it, let alone say it out loud to somebody. It just makes me cringe whenever I utter it. Ya know, them fucking screamo and emo bands... ewwwwww. But yeah, like you said, at least I got a whole catalog of thrash to go through, so no worries there :D

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I love Meshuggah, and Cloudkicker has some great sort of djenty instrumental metal stuff, but so far I've been unmoved by every other band I've heard that's associated with the term. As far as screamo, it's not my typical sound, but there's good stuff out there nonetheless - some heavy early shit I enjoy that's very close in spirit to grindcore, and some slightly later stuff that pulls from early melodic death metal. There are some newer releases I intend to follow up on as well.

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I love Meshuggah too, i did before they were as huge or lot of people even knew about them, but the thing is.. they aren´t djent! I bought contradictions collapse and none digipack in the mid 90s and enjoyed them ever since. My friend recommended it to me, they were a pretty unique band back then.. I guess thats what i will listen to as morning music.. time to fetch the cd... :D 

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