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I dont know what that means.

Could the mods move this to MIA Milk carton kids thread? Name rings a bell.

mozz wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:18 pm Could the mods move this to MIA Milk carton kids thread? Name rings a bell.

Why? He re-joined in May of last year and has made a few hundred posts since then.

Good to see you back Cid!

It was a joke son, i tell you a joke. I must be missing his post somehow. I see his last posts were back in 2020?

Glad to see a few friendly faces!

Yeah I stayed gone. Last I remember I got banned for complementing the new forum, after exhaustively helping to usher everyone over here from the momo nightmare. It was so silly that I simply refused to come back.

Anyway as usual I've lived a few lives since we last chatted. I lived on a mountain in Oregon with no electricity for a while. Made it back to California for a season, and then ended up in Virginia.

Although surprisingly I'm working on a plan to move back to CA as we speak. It's an expensive ridiculous place that is getting wayyyyy more dangerous (physically and financially) by the minute...

But I need to be near friends, and also I'm absolutely sick of weather and seasons. I'd rather it just be hot all the time.

@Rollin Hand I've thought about you a handful of times. Vandy memories and such. Did you ever put your EVH guitar together?

I should add that from all of 2018 through Today I've probably spent less than two hours playing guitar.

Did get to play drums live at a party two years ago though. That was cool.

Welcome back. Could you eat well, living on the mountain?

Partscaster wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 3:08 pm Welcome back. Could you eat well, living on the mountain?

Thanks!

Haha yep. Was in an RV so had a propane stove/oven. Fridge had broken though, but kept the food in an icebox outside (and outside was already cold).

I like both OR and VA. People are generally friendlier than CA. But again I say, weather is dumb.

The hardest parts have been the times where I couldn't walk for a few weeks. I'm still in pain 24/7 from the 2015 accident... But I _almost have my back muscles untwisted from around my hip. Serious might finish it out and be pain free by the end of the year. Here's hopin'.

Oh and I finally got a dog. Since wearing pants and shoes hurts too much to leave the house, it gives me someone to talk to

Here's Peter Pan(tsless) in front of the untouched guitars. Of the 60+ guitars I had owned, I only kept a few. I have...

Derek Jones' Les Paul (rip)
My #1 Musikraft Kramer 5150
A real striped 5150
A lightning bolt 5150
A double cut Tele that never got assembled
My old #1 BPD zebra striped Wolfgang
And the 1976 Ibanez Destroyer

Welcome back PC. I’ve been through a couple jobs since you left myself. And while I did not live on a mountain at any point I did go winter camping this weekend in -15f weather

uwmcscott wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:01 pm Welcome back PC. I’ve been through a couple jobs since you left myself. And while I did not live on a mountain at any point I did go winter camping this weekend in -15f weather

Good to see ya.

Yeah man I liked the idea of camping.

But having to put on layers of jackets every single time you go outside, is just insane. I am amazed people are willing to live like this! Haha

PsychoCid wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 2:41 pm Glad to see a few friendly faces!

Yeah I stayed gone. Last I remember I got banned for complementing the new forum, after exhaustively helping to usher everyone over here from the momo nightmare. It was so silly that I simply refused to come back.

Anyway as usual I've lived a few lives since we last chatted. I lived on a mountain in Oregon with no electricity for a while. Made it back to California for a season, and then ended up in Virginia.

Although surprisingly I'm working on a plan to move back to CA as we speak. It's an expensive ridiculous place that is getting wayyyyy more dangerous (physically and financially) by the minute...

But I need to be near friends, and also I'm absolutely sick of weather and seasons. I'd rather it just be hot all the time.

@Rollin Hand I've thought about you a handful of times. Vandy memories and such. Did you ever put your EVH guitar together?

As a matter of fact......

https://aguitarforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1299

Sadly, It was Ed dying that kind of lit a fire under my hiney.

Glad to hear you're doing OK. That isn't so easy these days.

Rollin Hand wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 5:12 pm

PsychoCid wrote: ↑Sun Feb 06, 2022 2:41 pm Glad to see a few friendly faces!

Yeah I stayed gone. Last I remember I got banned for complementing the new forum, after exhaustively helping to usher everyone over here from the momo nightmare. It was so silly that I simply refused to come back.

Anyway as usual I've lived a few lives since we last chatted. I lived on a mountain in Oregon with no electricity for a while. Made it back to California for a season, and then ended up in Virginia.

Although surprisingly I'm working on a plan to move back to CA as we speak. It's an expensive ridiculous place that is getting wayyyyy more dangerous (physically and financially) by the minute...

But I need to be near friends, and also I'm absolutely sick of weather and seasons. I'd rather it just be hot all the time.

@Rollin Hand I've thought about you a handful of times. Vandy memories and such. Did you ever put your EVH guitar together?

As a matter of fact......

https://aguitarforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1299

Sadly, It was Ed dying that kind of lit a fire under my hiney.

Glad to hear you're doing OK. That isn't so easy these days.

Ah cool. Yeah sometimes it takes a big event to move our hearts and minds.

I'd forgotten about your 5150 actually, I was remembering your Kramer.. Sustainer?

Yeah, been pretty lucky on timing economically. So glad my tougher parts were in relatively easier times.

I'm well stocked now too on all fronts, and diversifying assets, as I anticipate supply chain and USD inflationary problems to accelerate.

Oh Gosh, the Sustainer.....yeah, tried to make a back plate for it. It didn't go so good, so I need to take another run at it. Then it will be done -- or at least as done as it's going to get.

Right now I am mulling a Frankie project, but maybe without the stripe job. I like the look of Al Estrada's red Strat....

@Rollin Hand Nice! It's playable without a backplate isn't it?

Funny I don't have any factory Kramer's left. There's only a couple in particular I miss.

Wish I had a Frankie too. The neck and weight are so diff from the 5150, it'd feel great to contrast in a session.

Yes, it's playable, but somewhat noisy. Guess that shielding on the back plate matters!

Yeah, a Frankie build has been in the back of my mind for a while now. As has trying to find a used EVH Striped Frankie. It would be cheaper to build, but they've done all the relicing work for you, and realistically you wouldn't be able to tell it's used.

good to hear from you, Cid.

Hey PC. Better check with your friends they may in Florida now. It's not as expensive, less dangerous, only two seasons summer and January and Mickey is here.

Glad to see you again, Ian @PsychoCid ! I´m happy you´re doing good, considering the times. And hope you´re pain free by the next year, as you say.

Saludos, amigo!

Thanks guys!

tonebender wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 6:56 pm Hey PC. Better check with your friends they may in Florida now. It's not as expensive, less dangerous, only two seasons summer and January and Mickey is here.

Sound advice, thank you.

Most of my friends all have deep family ties thru CA. They can't leave. They need each other.

I'm in the same boat. My friends, and what's left of my family, are the only thing that makes life worth living.

While FL would otherwise be my first choice, I have come to the conclusion that it's not worth my sanity. I cannot be an island.

That said, I am also a native Californian and I am Yaqui. It was my land long before America or California ever existed.

It's been taken over by communists. But I can't just abandon the ship. I am aware I will suffer. But I would rather suffer on my land, than run and give it away freely to the enemy.

Let them pry my weapon (guitar?) from my cold, dead hand. I will have my pride and integrity.

In seriousness though I think we're already at the precipice. The public IS waking up to the corruption of the politicians, media, and bankers.

Seven years ago I said our presidents are selected, not elected. Even my best friends told me I was nuts. Today, they see it as fairly obvious.

Six years ago I told my friends the news was fake, and showed them how 30 different stations all had identical scripts. They got mad at me for showing them, but today they're starting to see it.

Four years ago I begged everyone I knew to please stock up on food and non-USD currencies (gold, silver, BTC). They thought I was insane. Now they see why I told them that.

Three years ago I told my friends the airline and trucking industries would shut down huge amounts of capacity. No one wanted to hear me. And here we are today.

Last year, I asked a retiring manager in CA what it would take for him to stop supporting the political party he likes. Or to pick up a gun if it ever came down to it -- he said it has to hurt his family.

I said let me clarify

You won't change if it hurts your country? Nope.
You won't change if it hurts your state? Nope.
You won't change if it hurts your city? Nope.
You won't change if it hurts your block? Nope.
Only if it hurts your direct family? He said yes again.

So I said, okay then. We have no choice. Your family must be personally hurt, in order to save the country.

And here we are. Diversify your assets and buy dry goods now. 2022 will see MUCH worse shortages and inflation. Simply to wake people up.

Not to worry long term though. Once the MOMS get pissed off, they will uproot the schools, politicians, media, and banks VERY quickly.

And after the fake fiat USD market crashes, then I'll be there with silver and BTC to buy my grandfather's house back.

I don't have a crystal ball, but you can judge me by my fruits and accuracy. I think 2022 will be the bottom, and we start building the new economy 2023. Just a guesstimate, could be off by a year or three. Big ships take time to turn. But we're accelerating.

Welcome back Cid. I hate to disagree with you but there is little chance 2022 will be the bottom. We have a ways to go, and it will take several more years of pain for most people to realize what they voted for.

Chocol8 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:23 am Welcome back Cid. I hate to disagree with you but there is little chance 2022 will be the bottom. We have a ways to go, and it will take several more years of pain for most people to realize what they voted for.

You're right.

I'm being optimistic not that it's the bottom of financial woes, but hopefully the turnaround point for critical mass of the public starting to question the narrative.

In 1999 I saw The Matrix in theater. Before it began they ran an advertisement for "anti-child trafficking". That moment shocked me awake. Why are you advertising to random kids and parents that WE need to stop trafficking?

At 14 years old it was obvious to me the government was doing the trafficking, and trying to blame the public as their way of hiding.

By the time I ended high school at 17, taxes had always gone up. But all the CA roads and cities had deteriorated. Homelessness has only skyrocketed since then as well. Again it was obvious to me that our money never goes where they say it does.

One day at a time, though. It's not like all of this hasn't happened before with England, Rome, Egypt. The difference this time is the internet. The public can communicate faster than the bankers can control the narrative.

It's gonna suck for sure. But I guess I'm banking on it sucking worst for what's left of my 30s, and then I'll having a decade or two to build back into a reasonable retirement.

Chocol8 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:23 am Welcome back Cid. I hate to disagree with you but there is little chance 2022 will be the bottom. We have a ways to go, and it will take several more years of pain for most people to realize what they voted for.

It occurs to me the controlled demolition HAS to be slow enough for the slowest people to wake up.

It's a very small % of Joe and Jane Public who are willing to exit the USD.

If we crash it fast, they go homeless fast. This has to be sssllloowwwww.

Again, why I'm glad I'm mid/late 30s. We should be building before I'm 50.