New house routines for covid?

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So, I’m out of projects in my house. The upkeep at this point is very minimal and what messy portion of the house is only that way because the pile of donation sacks is tremendous.

“School” is winding down. Not like Freshmen were logging into the school server to complete school work anyway, especially when they know they can’t get anything worse than the 3rd quarter grade… not much to grade, so work is slow.

So, by my other thread, I think you’ve noticed I’ve decided to partake in alcohol a bit more than I usually do. (Drank 2 nights in a row- Had a 22 of Guinness Extra Stout last night) Which is probably still loads less than some around here. :rofl: But yeah I got free time, might as well have a pint, I guess…

Since my house work is done, my job is basically done, I’ve got nothing really to do but bum around the house for the next 4 months, so, I’ve got back into the guitar with the aid of Rocksmith 2014. I got this game about 5 years back for the xbox 360 and it was cool, but I got sidetracked with family and work stuff. So, I dusted it off, but my 360 was spotty, not wanting to read the disc. So, I bought a new version for PS4, and it was cool for a bit, BUT it started not registering my notes and chords and calling my strums a miss when it was clearly a hit.

So, I looked up the problem online and apparently you’re not supposed to play with and HDMI cable because the two way signal causes lag (Was playing in my room with just the HDMI connecting the PS4 to the TV). Instead your supposed to play with an optical sound cable hooked up to a receiver and external speakers. No problem I’ll just hook up the optical Sound to the TV also and forego the receiver…looks on the back of the PS4 slim and no optical slot Boooooooo.

So, I go downstairs check the Xbox 1 and YAY there is an optical port. (plus everything runs through my receiver- their suggested optimal set up) So, I get a copy of Rocksmith 2014 for Xbox 1 plug in and I’m kicking ass… Until my wife comes in and says “hey, can I play too?”

“Sure, we have two cables; it has multiplayer. Grab the bass; we can play songs.” My wife, who did like 10 years of music, from drums to flute, picks up the bass guitar, which she hasn’t touched in 10 years-really more like 13 or 14. (She bought one after she showed me how to read rhythm notes and we were playing marilyn manson songs together back before we were married in an old house we rented) She proceeds to hit mastery in song after song after song after song after song after… you get the drift. And you know why shouldn’t she she’s played the bass for a combined total of 4 months of a 15 year span?

I always fancied myself a lead guitarist, but I get my ass kicked on tons of songs and find myself hitting mastery much quicker when I opt to just playing rhythm. So, my wife suggested I stick to rhythm for a bit to get my timing down better and then switch to lead a little later. Seeing as how she is the musical guru in the family I guess I’ll do that.

So far the songs I got Lead mastery down on are Blitzkrieg Bop and Badfish. A bunch of other songs I’m anywhere between 73% and 88%. Plush, Coma White, Pour Some Sugar on me, Zombie, But I played Zombie, Don’t look back in Anger, and Badfish last night on Rhythm and hit mastery in like 2 or 3 times, Whereas I’ve played those other songs well over 10 times in Lead and never leveled up to mastery let alone did it in under 5 songs.

So, I fully expect to be a shredder at the end of the summer. Rocksmith is fun because my wife and I are doing some bonding like we did when we were first together, then you throw in the alcohol and it intensifies. :slight_smile:

TL:DR
All my work at home and job is mostly done. Having a beer or two a night and my wife is a beast on the bass and we’re bonding over playing music.

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A whole 22 oz? In one night?

You’re like a modern day Bukowski or Hunter S. Thompson. Getting crazy out there in the desert.

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I’m ashamed to admit I got a little buzz. :flushed:

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https://www.facebook.com/

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Yeah, I’m not really doing anything new. I am able to work from home, so I’m still staying busy. We’ve been watching a lot more TV, but that’s about it.

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Idk why anyone would willingly live in LA. Hobo central. Texas is opening up and its returning to normal here, the hospitalization rates have remained flat so while infections have gone up due to more testing no ones actually getting sick enough to be sidelined.

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No homeless in Texas? Impressive.

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https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/#fn[]=1400&fn[]=2800&fn[]=6200&fn[]=10000&fn[]=13200

not even close to California’s numbers and considering we’re the 2nd most populous state yep I think that’s impressive.

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Man, LA homelessness is unreal to see. It seems in the span of ten years it went from isolated areas to EVERYWHERE. When I would go to more of the inner city there was definitely the homeless there, but in the last couple of years it has sprang up everywhere. I never remember seeing homeless on the Sunset offramp from the 101 and now it’s a whole tent city over there. I never remember seeing the homeless on the over passes over the 101 and now EVERY over pass has homeless. It’s heart breaking.

The last time I went there (Feb) I saw one guy in his tent coming when we got off the 101 on Sunset actually stick a needle in his arm. He was in his tent but his flap was open so i saw the belt tied around his arm and the needle go in. Then on the way home we got stuck in traffic because somebody had jumped off of the last bridge (or maybe it was the little subway track that goes over the the 101). The put a little tent over the body but there was like a 1 foot gap at the body and you could see that blood was seeping through the wrap they had put around him.

Texas probably has less homeless cause they put them all in jail or execute them. Texas mooches off of Cali. Every State mooches off of Cali. We’re the 6th largest economy in the world. Say what you want about Cali but what it comes down to is, you’re welcome for the money.

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[quote=“grmpysmrf, post:11, topic:6996”]
Texas probably has less homeless cause they put them all in jail or execute them.[/quote]
We put them to work and we have affordable housing unlike California. 300k will get you 4000sqft and 6 bedrooms in a decent neighborhood. 300k in California gets you a shanty in the ghetto lol

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We have a bad homeless problem here, for sure.

But I could never live in a red state. I’ll pay higher rent just to not have to be around you people.

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HAHA!! The oh so tolerant left for ya.

Texas is pretty unique in that we have plenty of blue cities. Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Laredo, even Houston was blue last election.

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Funny. Who said I was Left? Or tolerant?

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Not tolerating intolerance is not, in itself, intolerance. The mental gymnastics that the red do to try to justify their bullshit is incredible.

Yeah, well we have to pay for all of you moocher states so of course things are going to be more expensive here to make up for the deficit that other states, like Texas, take from Cali. Plus, we got better weather.

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You got beaches I’ll give you that. I’ll gladly take North Texas weather over yours tho. Something very weird about having a 70 degree day on Christmas. Our winters are mild but at least we get snowfall from time to time and the smell of toasty hickory smoke in the air on a windy winters day will make you wanna smack yo momma for not giving birth to you sooner.

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Yea, this is southern California weather you’re describing, minus the occasional snow fall… Although, where I live gets occasional snowfall but while it may be 70 degrees on Christmas the nights are 20s and 30s. So, while the southern Cali valleys stay pretty much between 55-70 year round, they are at most an hour away from the mountains (At minimum 20 minutes) that get snow year round.

I hate the wind, so no reason to leave the house when it’s windy… But if it’s so mild there in the winter, why do you need to fire up the fireplace?

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So, now that work is completely finished it’s been guitar damn near all day.
I’ve learned:
Song 2- Blur
Hey Man Nice Shot- Filter
Longview - Green Day
Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
Creep- Stone temple Pilots
Glycerine - Bush
Fight for your right to party- Beastie Boys (including the little 20 note solo)
Fake plastic Trees - Radiohead (though the Rocksmith keeps telling me I’m missing notes but i’m not)
Badfish - Sublime
What I Got - Sublime (although I’m still pretty shaky)
I almost have down…
Plush - Stone temple Pilots (I still screw up at any given spot for no reason)
Dream on - Aerosmith (All but the last two solos)
Nobodys Fool - Cinderella (all but the solos)
Basket Case - Green Day (is kicking my ass, his palm mute rhythms are tough)
Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden (is hard as fuck for such a slower song)

Finally found some songs with bass lines that My wife can’t immediately crush with perfection.
Fear of the Dark- Maiden
Down Rodeo - Rage against the machine
Comedown - Bush
Longview- Green Day

I think we’re gonna start having shows in the garage… Not really.

Oh yeah, and I learned the rhythm for Where do we go from here- Filter but that’s not on Rocksmith that was just based on tabs on the internet.

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Oh yeah, peace sells but whose buying is hard as hell too. My wife cant even really play it On bass and she hits perfection on everything

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My whole life was kind of inverted.
Since pretty much everything was closed for almost 3 months, my wife and I stopped going to malls and trips and restaurants and such and instead just drive around the nearby mountains/ forests. And since we’ve been cooking at home, we’re saving a bit of money (we also saved a noticeable chunk of gas money when we weren’t going to our respective offices for work).

It’s weird how quickly we evolve and adapt. I used to really think about concerts all the time and decide which ones I’d go to next. I’ve barely given them any thought at all in the past few months.