This is for @Gibsonhasafluffybutt but why hide it from everyone else?
If you have a Line 6 user in your life, they put up a bunch of free patches on their blog and YouTube videos. Here’s one for HX models that makes it sound like two rhythm guitars at once, the link to the chat is in the chat replay https://www.youtube.com/live/dMZBiG3sP70?si=u5ONG6dUYPXsI3Rq
Dude I had a go of it and its perfect for open mic! Thanks heaps for that :)
You could add a slow attack synth pad to really fill in sections like the chorus of a song. The possibilities are endless with the Helix
Dude! I’m gonna give that a go tomorrow!
Because open mic venues usually have stereo speakers setup for their PA, you can build some really cool, multipath stereo patches in the helix.
For example:
Blend 2 amps on the first path and path 2 can have 2 delays, each panned hard left and right with a stereo reverb at the end.
Sounds fucking insane!
I used to buy pedals every week and had some weird obsession with buying more and more.
Since I got the helix, I only have bought one. The hologram microcosm because it’s trippy as fuck lol
I saw a video on the Microcosm, it looks very nice.
And yeah, the Helix can be more than a pedalboard or your rig in a box. It can almost be your whole studio on the go with all the things you can do with it. Get crazy on the outputs and blow everyone away with what you can do at an open mic with just your guitar and a single floor unit
Bugger all to do at work today. Lucky I’m wfh and can do “professional development”.
Some hectic winds out this way. Very blowy out there. Might be the cause of this nasty gateway.
Nothing out this way. 🤷♀️
Terrible morning. Woke up late, by the time I was ready to leave home I was going to miss the next train and the one after that wasn’t for 25 minutes for some reason. Got to train station only to realise that I left my laptop charger at home. Had to watch the train go by that I would now miss. Back home, then back to station, just made the next train. When I got to Parliament to catch a tram to my co-working office, there was a protest happening so all trams going in the direction I needed to go were stuck. I then had to walk 25 minutes from the city, carrying two bags mind you. It was really comical how nothing lined up for me today. On the bright side, I got a lot of steps in this morning and had a really good coffee once I finally arrived.
sometimes I need a little pep talk
sam’s speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6C8SX0mWP0&t=1s
💪😔
The Sun beats down on my back
But I shiver from the cold
Small in the sea at the track
Of people far younger; I’m old
I would rather be out the front
With the protestors and signs
But it would be insulting, an affront
If the ticket paid for I declined
So I drink too much and run away
To smoke away from the crowd
Of wealth and youth led astray
By bets, in debts they drownHad a picnic with the uni gardening group I’m in today. It was really nice to chat to everyone.
There’s an avocado tree that was planted at the beginning of the semester with two avocados. I hope I will be given an update when they’re ready to harvest.
I will miss this uni because of the familiarity, but the garden is what I’m sad about leaving. I’ll go back to visit if I’m ever in the area :)
If the avos were planted as fruits at the beginning of the semester, you’ve got several years to wait for harvestable fruit. If the trees have fruit on them already, well, the fruit doesn’t ripen until removed from or falls off the tree. Ripening then takes up to 60 days and can be longer depending on storage temperature. They might be waiting for the fruit to get bigger before taking them off the tree, though. This might give you something of a timeline.
Hopefully they’re harvested before everyone leaves then :D
I forgot to post something funny.
I’ve been occasionally stepping out the front door for a second to throw a few high quality cat food kibbles to the maggies, just letting them see my face to learn I’m not a threat and tell their mates not to swoop.
Yesterday one came walking right up to my screen door wanting to come in! He or she was genuinely curious and hung around peeping in for a couple of minutes.
I explained that they couldn’t come in because there was a kitty living in here, so they stuck around a little longer and eventually wandered off.
I’m jealous, I wanted wanted to befriend the local magpie but it’s never really taken an interest in me, at least it’s not swooping me in my front yard though.
They used to swoop me because I so rarely went out. I’m just lucky they’re coming right to me so I can pop out with some food and say hello
I’ve been wanting to give my local maggies and crows a treat, there are heaps in the few tall trees in my street. I love the crows, they’re so shiny!
We have crows in Melbourne, but the most common is actually the Little Raven. I think it’s so cool that we have ravens tbh, the little Poe fan in me squeals haha.
They’re all very intelligent, magpies, crows, and ravens; so if you do give them treats, theyll actually remember your face and tell their mates. So smart 😍🐦⬛
I very much approve of giving treats to ravens.
Guess what this week’s window is?
Ah cool, happy to be corrected on the raven/crow thing. Quoth the raven, “gimme more! (of Melba’s gourmet kibble)”
Be careful not to make the treats too nice… I already had neighbourhood cats wanting to book a stay and now the birds want in too!
I think it’s the same maggie that came right up to my visitor today to see if she had anything
did a rough memory inventory, realised I shoulda had about four irrigatias unaccounted for. Found the last five. Now cleaning up, cycling batteries, fixing diaphragms and all that fun stuff while I inventory 6 years of organically grown watering equipment ripped out and taken with us.
Beep Beep 🚚
🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋Goat cheese on rye and a beer please
🐐🧀
🍞🍺
A sea food platter to celebrate Seagoons safe return please.
🪼🦐🦞🦀🦑🐙🐡🐟🍣🍤
One slain Cthulhu please, raw and still wriggling
🦑
Bag of cashews and a drink of any sort pls
👝🥃
Perfect!
I freaking HATE when you order a coffee with alternate milk. Say a flat white with Oat. You say that to them. They make it and announce “Flat white?” and you go “With oat?” and they go “… yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyes…” in a REALLY uncertain tone.
Takes all my effort to not lock eye contact and say “Cause bro, if it isnt, and I shit myself to death your gonna experience exactly what this will feel like when I get my hands on you”.
Yeah, I got one that served me lactose free as if it was the same thing.
What part of OAT did you not understand?
People who don’t repeat orders in full bother me, I like a supreme with extra garlic, don’t say only supreme back to me. Also when I’m giving numbers over the phone… 931 uh huh, 334 uh huh, 553 uhh the computer says no.
It must be the location of the cafe lol, the ones around me in Brunswick judge me for just having normal milk, over almond, skim, etc 😂
I only drink decaf and the look I get it is like “umm what’s wrong with you lol”.
Real estate update: no nasty emails, except… A notice to vacate in Feb 2025 because the owner’s decided to sell. LOL. Guessed this was gonna happen when a REA supposedly joined the inspection. Good thing I’ve already started looking!
Plus side is now I only need to give 14 days notice when leaving so this means a whole lot less of double rent.
If I catch the unit not being sold though, or rented again under the same owner past the vacate date I’d love to report that shit (e: looks like she has 6 months from now within which she can’t re-let the property. If her intention was to boot me out, hope she enjoys 5 months of no rent!)
Add that to VCAT, they love changing stories like this
Tell me more… do you mean VCAT if I find that she’s re-listed it within 6 months? Or VCAT for any breach notice/bond shenanigans that might come up?
Both. VCAT for all RE and LL shenanigans. Remember to claim your bond immediately after leaving as well so they can’t do anything tricksy with it
I’m definitely claiming my bond the second I hand back the keys - phone in hand, finger hovering over the button. LL seems clueless about tenants’ rights and I’m not about to educate her. She can moan about needing to inspect first as much as she likes on the day… got any problems, see you at VCAT✌️
I’ll be asking her for a rental payment ledger asap, good that she is legally required to provide one within 7 days.
fuck the REAS, best thing that ever happened for renters was having the ability to request your bond back yourself
right, first things first: https://tenantsvic.org.au/advice/during-your-tenancy/your-landlord-is-selling/
ANYTHING that deviates outside the law, get on CAV right away. Anything. No matter how small. You owe this trash nothing now, take the gloves off.
You already spoke to tenants vic about the pots, right? If so, call them again and mention this escalation. The sequence of events may actually have this considered retaliatory in context and they’ll go right up the tailpipe.
Thanks for the details! Yeah I did speak to Tenants Vic about the pots. The lady on the phone laughed (apologetically) at how ridiculous the request was.
I intend to move out anyway regardless of notice to vacate as I don’t want to deal with this person any longer than I need to, just wondering when I might actually get to use this info. I’m guessing if and when any breach happens. It does take at least 45 minutes (after about 10+ tries) to get through to Tenants Vic so I probably might hold off on calling them until any further developments happen.
One thing I’m concerned about is that if I apply for a new place and LL is contacted as a reference, that they might make up shit about me - not sure what I can do about any of that.
get a mate and make them your LL for reference.
I know you said you are already looking, but get on it sooner rather than later. This side of chirstmas is a bit slower, but jan feb is NUUUUUTs for rentals.
Oh absolutely, I was intending to have moved out by Dec anyway (which is when the rent increase was gonna kick in). Not a whole heap coming online atm, but as my next place is just short term I’m cutting out a lot of nice to haves and being a lot less picky.
dunno where you live, dunno what your looking for, but Fairfield always surprised me as being cheap to rent. Not sure if thats still the case though. mrs had a dump on station street back in the day that was perfectly serviceable.
It’s at the northern edge of where I’m looking but I’m definitely seeing some cheaper apts there and in Alphington too. One non negotiable for me though is not on a main road as I’m sensitive to traffic noise when wfh/sleeping. So far a lot of things that tick the other boxes have been on main roads. Saw a nice joint that ticked every box but then I saw it was off Power St in Hawthorn and I’m like… Yeah nah
Noted.
Got the thread through the eye of the needle first go, no cap.
You’ve peaked for today!
I’ve probably peaked for the week tbh.
It’s important to recognise that.
It’s taken me an hour to reply to you. Forgot what I was gonna say…
Buy a lotto ticket
I left my work laptop at home and now I need to run back and get it 🫠
Run or swim?
What is swimming but running in water in a funny orientation
The ducky paddle
Profound statement 🦆
I had that yesterday when I was already an hour late… got half way there and had to turn around.
Alright. I’ve got my ticket for the Bang Emo Halloween party. It had better be worth the ticket cost lol
Also, thanks pointless all hands company meeting, I did have some guitar practice I needed to get done today
