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davio

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  • Birthday 01/07/1984

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  1. That happened to me last year. Bank was bought by Banco Santander and one morning in April they told us to get on a conference call just to say "Clean out your desks." The rest of the year was paid for by running myself ragged playing stupid amounts of gigs. Now that I have the contacts and get the calls, I don't have a car anymore so I do carpentry while going back to school online. I still gig enough to keep busy (maybe 1/2 as much as before), but they don't pay as well as the ones I needed a car for. I'm young and bounce back easily but I always feel bad for the people getting hit with this sort of stuff after working for the company for years and then having their retirement (or whatever the case may be) come crashing down around their ears.
  2. Just have to go through a metal detector and bags go through an x-ray belt like at the airport. If you can finagle that, you're golden. I didn't. However, I DID take advantage of the tax and duty free liquor store where you buy it and they deliver it to your room on the last night. Not only tax and duty free, awesome prices! I spent $60 and it will probably last me at least a year (probably more) since I don't drink that much liquor (though I enjoy it quite a bit).
  3. Got back an hour or so ago. We were planning on the extra charges and whatnot. She doesn't drink and I sprang for a dark and stormy (we were going to Bermuda after all) and a pina colada to see if she'd like either (she didn't) so the booze bill wasn't an issue. We had both been on a cruise once before but never together. We had a blast and now she's sad that she has to go back to real life and prep for the nursing boards. I foresee more money being dumped on cruises in the coming years.
  4. I'm leaving in a few hours for a 7-day cruise with the gf (Friday to Friday). I'm taking her to Bermuda for a combo graduation and birthday present. Unfortunately I can't afford any other gifts. On the up side, she's offered to get me a pedicure while she does her spa stuff onboard. It isn't the pedi that I'm happy about...just the awesomeness of having a gf who'd offer to pamper me in the midst of her own pampering. I also have a gig a few hours after we get back. Should be fun.
  5. I was in a goofy mood at the gig last night and substituted The White Stripes "Seven Nation Army" for the bass solo in Boogie Oogie Oogie. It was well received and got a lot of laughs from the crowd as well as the band. I was very pleased with myself.
  6. I have Double Stufs in the pantry so I'm 1/2 way there!
  7. Thought some of you might appreciate this. Again, I'm bragging about my friend from high school who's tearing up the smooth jazz scene. He recently got back from the Smooth Jazz Cruise 2010: http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs167.snc3/19450_1214692927674_1239348319_30590029_7844513_n.jpg From left to right, that's Andre Delano, Gerald Albright, Eric Darius (my friend), Euge Groove, Richard Elliott, Dave Koz, Phil Perry, Jonathan Butler, Earl Klugh, Peter White, Jeff Golub, and Marcus Miller (front center).
  8. So yeah...I'd totally be down with actually talking about bass related topics on this forum again.
  9. So a week or two ago I started having pain in my right thumb. I recently started working for a general contractor and it's kicking my sorry butt back into shape. Between strenuous hammer swinging, holding heavy nail guns and drills at odd angles and all sorts of other stuff I've also been working a lot on my slap technique. One of my room mates is a physical therapist and informs me that it's tendonitis...in my thumb! Who does that?!? Fortunately most of the work I've done in the last week or so has been demo so I don't have to aim the hammer when I'm knocking holes through walls so I've been using my left hand as much as possible. We've also had the last two weeks off of band rehearsals due to everybody traveling for the holidays since we didn't have anything booked so I've laid off the slap as much as I can. My thumb hurts most when I first wake up and the gf tells me I have a weird habit of popping my knuckles while I'm asleep (when I wake up half way to roll over or something). So I've rigged something up with a thing about the size of 1/2 a roll of quarters and an ace bandage where I put the roll between my thumb and forefinger and tie down my thumb at night so it's not extended or flexed. It's been feeling a bit better the last few days so I'm hoping I've got it almost beat. Only thing is that work goes back full swing tomorrow and rehearsals start back up Tuesday. I hope I can keep my thumb on the mend...
  10. Front Door Key Front Dorky Nerd Facade
  11. The Whoremoans Sorry. Couldn't help it.
  12. Your mother was a hamster. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e8/TrentKojiras/FrenchTaunt.gif
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