maneatingcow

Corey Chisel is a local guy who now moved to Nashville and is getting pretty big. Figured some of y'all might appreciate him. He's also started a Americana / Folk / Alt Country / Emerging Artists festival in Appleton WI. If any of y'all are close by you should make a trip over. This years some of the highlights are Austin Lucas, Tim Barry, Caleb Caudle, Frank Fairfield, Charlie Parr, Steelism, Swear and Shake, Son Little, Strange Americans, Luke Bell, Andrew Combs, Roadkill Ghost Chooir, Suitcase Junket http://mileofmusic.com/artists/page/8/ - click list view to view all bands on one page There is a link to all the bands this years if you see somene I need to check out let me know.

I've posted about this in the past, but more bands have been announced so I'll check again. there is a local music festival by me that focus' on Americana/Folk/College Rock bands. It's mostly emerging artists who are big in their region and getting bigger nationally. If you have a few minutes if any of you feel like taking a run through the list and let me know if you see anything I really neeed to check out. http://mileofmusic.com/artists/ (you can click on listing view to make all bands show up on one page) I'm bored out of my mind sitting here just thinking about my finger hurting so I could use the distraction of checking out some more bands. Or if anyone knows of something good on netflix that is lesser known that I should watch let me know. I just tore through Bobs Burgers again. I'll maybe start up a Trek again if I can't find something new.

That sounds like an ouch ouch ouch.

https://flic.kr/p/vc3P2i https://flic.kr/p/vc3Nqi Couldn't figure out how to link on here, but theres a pic of a copy of my x-ray. I should have taken a pic of the cut up fingers but didn"t want to look at it that much. They cut off the nails on two fingers and cleaned up the shreaded skin and bone on the middle. Then they cut some skin off the pad and and stretched it over the tip. Numbed it all to hell so I still cant feel anything.

Thanks y'all. It's not a big deal, it's just the tip. Anxious to get the meeting with the hand surgeon today. Hopefully they can just strtch the skin around the tip. Reverse circumsision. Not enthused about them possibly having to shave the bone down. When the first nurse dry heaved when I showed her the finger I knew it wasn't going to be as simple as a couple of stitches. The machine is a custom made thing that collates and assembles paper the shrink wraps the sets. I got my hand at the hot knife end. Basically its just heated anvil cylinder that rotates in unison with a top score / knife. Fun shit, fun shit

Got a couple fingers caught in my machine tonight. Apparently broke off some of the bone on the middle finger. Have an appointment with a hand surgeon tomorrow. Hopefully they won't need to shave off more of the bone.

Hell I say keep venting, on here or elsewhere. It's better to have an outlet to voice your frustrations than to bottle them up. I know I have spent an inordinate amount of time on here bitching. There is something cathartic about just venting for a sec. I know one of your big complaints is how much you do in comparison to your co-workers. That is actually something that I've had to deal with at my job. While we are in completely different professions as an example the machine I currently run most of the time has an average run rate of about 104% for all three shifts combined. However, my % has exceeded 130% for over a year straight. The supervisors have actually started adding in codes for the other guys to punch in to boost their numbers, codes that I am prohibited to punch in to. Years back I'd get so worked up over shit like this, similar to how you seem to get worked up over similar issues. I've come to realize I can get myself worked up and filled with hate and animosity or I can just realize that what others do shouldn't affect me. I am being paid to do a job and I'm going to do it as good as I can. It doesn't matter if others half ass it or goof off, I can only control myself. So I'm left with two options continue to be true to myself and my work ethic or I can let others drag me down. Really you should find a new job though also. If your that unhappy at this job then it's time to find a new one. I know you had another job for a few days and hated that so perhaps even looking outside of your current profession might be ideal. ....narcissistic rant over. Have a lovely day all.

Apparently I am going to turn into a doomsdayer. I just broke down and bought some silver to "invest" in. I've thought about for a long time but just broke down and ordered 10 oz. I think I'm going to start doing it a few times a year, depending on prices. I'm sure there are oodles of better investments out there. However I'm a consumer. Every once in a while I'll just get a compulsive need to hop on the internet and just do some shopping and end up buying something stupid and needless. Hopefully, this will fill that void and then give me something tangible to purchase and look forward to getting in the mail with an added bonus of creating a mini savings account. I know there are oodles of better investments, but I am not really viewing this as investing it's more vice replacement therapy.

Here's Dawes from Letterman a few weeks back. They did a cover of a Warren Zevon song for Letterman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drXEp-JjD6U ...and they were on it a few weeks earlier too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym3KKRDB9-c

Ha, well good luck.

I can never tell if I like Dawes or not. It's weird but they are one of those bands that each time I listen to them and I'll just go back and forth on whether I like them or not. Don't know what it is about them that has me unsure. If I had to travel at all to see them I probably wouldn't, but they are playing a Mile of Music kick off show in my home town. It's cool that they are getting some bigger bands in.

Can't we just have every post in one of the innumerable repress threads changed to I can't stop grabbing shits out of the toilet. Nothing would please me more than jumping in the Hot topic thread to see every single post just saying "I can't stop grabbing shits out of the toilet."

Today is awesome. I just got an out for an upcoming nieces wedding. Now I can hit up the Dawes / Lone Below show. She just messaged all the vegetarians and told us that they weren't going to have a vegetarian option. Which isn't a big deal, I don't expect people to try and accommodate to my person food choices. Shes asking us to not show up and she'll have us go to another restaurant to eat. Sweet, gives me an easy out. I can now, guilt free, just stop by the dance for a few minutes and that is it. Now all I've got to do is find out how to get out of my half-brothers mail order bride wedding and I'll be family wedding free all summer. ...and Happy Friday y'all.

Overtime is the best / worst. I was doing so good keeping up on yardwork, then the overtime kicks in and super laziness begins. Ah well looks like I'll spend my weedend mowing and weeding and planting grass and changing oil and pruning a tree and...and...and... ....and hello all.

Want to get stoked for this, but can't. Wish Run DMC was playing Chicago. I think that would have made me pull the trigger. Short of that I just don't think there is anything I think I NEED to see.

Super excited for D4th of July. D4 turns 21! Any of y'all going?

That sounds like the worst thing ever.

I apparently am a elderly person. I bought a trike, and I love it. Went out for the first time today for a couple of short rides. I have terrible balance and I like riding casually so when I'd try and ride a bike I'd end up falling a ton or having to keep all my attention on the road. I also could never ride carrying anything or I'd totally lose my balance. Now I can go pick up groceries and cruise around and have a good time. I went out for a 40 minute ride and only got 4.5 miles down but hell it's a start. I totally want to make a canopy for it, or buy one of the ones made for another trike and mod it to fit. Just ordered a water bottle rack and phone holder, and a pair of pedals with straps.

I've always thought about moving to Canada at some point in my life. Now that I'm barred from Canada (DUI) looks like thats not much of an option. Ah well, probably would have never gone through with it.

No one is like "our" conservatives.

I grew up on soda. Milk always makes me poop green liquid for about an hour so that was always off the table. Seriously I never drank water as a kid. The only times I can legitimately remember drinking water was at a bubbler (water fountain for all you non-upper midwesterners). Now I've gotten terrible teeth and always want soda. If I ever have kids, soda will be nearly completely off the table.

My problem with water is that I'm just so used to drinking things that taste awesome. When I drink something like water it just seems like a waste I could be drinking liquid candy. It's the same reason my diet is terrible. I eat what I love and pretty much nothing else. I lack the self discipline / control to do what is good for me. This is one of the reasons why I've never smoked pot or anything like that. I'm pretty sure I'd love it and then just end up wanting to do it nonstop, and if I want to do something I, for the most part, do it. Basically I'm a glutten.

So you've seen my Craigslist ad?

It sucks, I've broken my no soda rule. I did so freakin' good for 8 months and now I've drank 2 2 liters in the last two weeks. After Ultimate Frisbee I've been ordering a pizza and have also ordered a 2 liter of soda. I don't know why but when I'm exhausted nothing tastes better than soda. Ah, well I need to figure out how to cut that out, and I should start working down how much Gatorade I drink. High fructose corn syrup is the worst, but damned if it is friggin amazing.

Faked sick today, and did yardwork. Great day.