I had a buddy who teed himself up for your mom jokes constantly. I swung and hit pretty much every time.

One evening he had enough and blew up. “God, you’re such a dick! You must be the biggest dick in the fucking world!”

“Well, I fit in your mom just fine, so I don’t see what the problem is.”

The first book was a Roald Dahl ripoff, and I enjoyed it for that. Everything was downhill from there.

That decision comes years or decades after practice and learning, which people do because A) they find just noodling on the instrument fun, and/or b) they find improving their skill deeply rewarding, and/or c) they think guitar/music is just really cool.

A bad instrument can make the experience miserable, though. My first acoustic was fucking awful, just straight trash. How long does yours stay in tune?

I work at a plant that uses one of those alternative flocculants (due to our source water chemistry). Our logistics are incredibly shaky at the best of times, due to the extremely limited number of producers.

If you see other players. Probably less awkward to try to find a club.

Most bottled water comes from a municipal water system somewhere, i.e., is tap water.

Some water supplies have issues with sulfur or algae, so that can be unpleasant if your sense of smell is particularly sensitive. My sense of smell is pretty weak so I drink the tap water most places, while my spouse had an RO system installed in our house due to their sensitivity.

It’s a chunk of plastic on your wrist. It’s always going to be a bit tacky.

I think the scariest thing is that it isn’t a disinformation campaign. Disinformation and propaganda are part of partisan politics (for instance, Republicans still think Joe Biden wanted to defend the police and Democrats still think there’s a pee tape). Just stating true facts is enough to get people arguing.

If we would just accept facts we didn’t like, a lot of these foreign actors would have a lot less power.

Marjorie Taylor Greene of the rockies

Voxes sound so good.

I just dropped $560 on an Arturia Minifreak to replace my Microkorg XL+ that has a busted tempo knob.

Those are synths. I’m a bassist. Gear is addictive, yo.

I have this same model. It’s fantastic. The color isn’t perfectly spot-on, but the contrast is there and it works. I’ve printed off a half dozen print-and-play games as well as three Netrunner sets with clear, legible results.