the happiness, excitement, and general contentedness thread

[Uncle Grandfather]

I ordered all three volca keys for nephew and nieces as their christmas gifts...and i've been staring at the boxes for about a week....and thinking about opening them up to make sure everything works ok or whatever other rationalization I keep coming up with. I just finished wrapping them. unmolested. feels content.

[GardenoftheDead]

Finals week may be here, but it'll be over soon and then I get to go to the frozen wastes of Indianapolis to see my girlfriend.

[IEatCats]

Spending time with Kate in her dorm. Despite the fact that pretty much everything is insane right now, I'm feeling pretty good about life.

I started winning board games recently (which never happens, ever) so I'm thinking maybe my luck is done being terrible. Maybe.

Also, started writing music with Nanoloop for ios, and it's fuckin' awesome.

[Jeff-7]

Interview next week to become the IT guy for the company I work for. I already do it all for my own store, hopefully I get the job which will mean moving, company car, and solely working with networks and computers. So excited for a chance to make at least comparable pay and not have to babysit all these adults at work (I've seen more maturity from middle school kids, management sucks).

[MaxMaps]

this is making me very happy right now

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1v3NeGtm_Y[/youtube]

[Ugly Nora]

I spent $250 for gifts for my employees on Amazon. I am an Amazon Prime member so I get guaranteed 2 day delivery. My package was supposed to arrive today, but didn't. Possibly because of the snow storm yesterday, who knows? So I complained to Amazon because if I a pay for a service, I expect them to hold up their end of the bargain. I was figuring I would get a $10 store credit or something. Long story short, they refunded me the whole $250 . So, I got that going for me. Maybe I will treat myself to something nice. I've earned it.

[kbit]

Well hot damn, that's pretty awesome.

[Uncle Grandfather]

going to see my niece piano recital today parents are always so uptight and busy looking at their phones it seems, i'm going to give her the applause she deserves

[Andrew]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQfHdasuWtI[/youtube]

Oh, Copyright.

I wonder if any of these people knew about the 2006/07 mass Guitar Tab 'copyright' takedown massacre, I had just started playing then and I was going to quit because I wasn't sure what I could do to learn.

Everything returns to order. Always.

[Twangasaurus]

Everything returns to order. Always.

Youtube is a bit different though, I mean, this battle has been going on for years and there is a hell of a lot of money at stake. Not to mention that gaming personalities in particular get the brunt of the big media hatred because they are viewed as competition. I know Angry Joe is supposed to be angry but that is definitely the most upset I've seen him and he has every right to be. Like the guy said, it's peoples livelihoods at stake here. One wrong policy change and literally thousands of people are out of a job or cut from an additional revenue stream that they use to put food on their table or pay their mortgage and the consumer and games industry both can only suffer as a result. Youtube really needs to get their shit together and start protecting their content creators and stop leaving it up to the big networks they are signed to (if they are lucky enough to have a contract at all).

[Bassist_Diver]

So I'm not gonna lie, the month of December has been shitting all over me so far. Between car wrecks, getting a federal letter for being behind on student loan payments, job offer rejection after rejection, and stubbing my toe on the coffee table this morning I was about ready to chug bottles of Maker's Mark and ring in the new year with a hangover that would make a German-Irish frat boy blush. (note that I'm not German or Irish, I'm Greek and Scottish. But I was in a frat )

Then today happened

For those who don't follow my happenings on TB, I've been applying to PhD programs because I miss doing research and the corporate world can suck all the dicks. Today I got 2 emails, one from Clemson and one from the University of Florida. The Clemson email was pretty much "holy crap your GRE scores are hot and your potential advisers really want to meet you." The one from Florida was "all your application materials have been received, your application looks great, we'll get in touch again come January." For those who care, I'm also applying to UNC, U Virginia, Florida State, U Colorado, and U Kentucky as my safety school. Faculty at every school have been very excited about me applying, in particular FSU's biology graduate coordinator personally emailed me because my faculty sponsor there apparently "wouldn't stop talking about [me]."

A few hours later Enterprise picked me up to get my rental car. The driver was cool as hell and really chill but that's beside the point. Since insurance is only covering a certain amount of my rental fees per day I thought my choices were going to be crap. But since this location didn't have any economy beater cars available they bumped me up to full size while giving me the price of a Chevy Bolt. So now I'm driving a car nicer than the one that was wrecked for only $0.25 a day.

And when I went to the gym I set a new deadlift PR. Picking up 400 lbs at 5'5" felt really, REALLY freaking good.

Now I have a job interview in a few hours for a temp/contract position that will give me full time pay but finish right before I need to start packing to move to wherever I go to grad school. If I get this job I'll be able to work from home, make a Chicago-income salary while living in San Antonio, and save a metric fuckton of money by not having to go out to eat for lunch and sit in traffic for upwards of 2 hours a day.

Yay good days!

[D.o.S.]

Nice dude.


It's going to snow this weekend. And I am going to shred.

And I'm successfully off the cancer sticks for at least the winter.

And Loggins + Journey just came on shuffle.

EPIC.

[greyscales]

U Kentucky

[Bassist_Diver]

U Kentucky

I used to live in Winchester (that's where my brother was born, donchaknow) and when I was working on my masters in Missouri I went to Paducah a lot. Also I've been to the Derby. I honestly wouldn't mind Lexington and know their bio program is pretty legit.

[greyscales]

U Kentucky

I used to live in Winchester (that's where my brother was born, donchaknow) and when I was working on my masters in Missouri I went to Paducah a lot. Also I've been to the Derby. I honestly wouldn't mind Lexington and know their bio program is pretty legit.

Ah, the home of good ol' Ale 8.

Lexington is not too bad. A surprising number of venues for the size of the city. And the UK radio station, where I'm djing now, is pretty great.
I know nothing about the bio program (in geography myself), but generally the science programs here are highly regarded.