LonesomeLamp

Thank you, thank you. I missed you all too. Story of my life, every time I thought to come back and say hi, I was either busy actively doing other stuff or trying to do as little as possible (ie, going to bed). I hope the latest surge of Covid hasn’t affected any of you, at least not too much. I still need my third shot.

What a coincidence…I’m actually having this question about myself right now. I was actually on my way to make this very thread when I came across this one. Because this one is still (relatively) new and very closely related, I’ll go ahead and post mine here instead of create a new one. So like, I’ve questioned my sexuality before. I’ve asked myself the questions. “Would I be willing to do this? What about this?” My ultimate conclusion was no homosexuality in me. Well, maybe just a little, but not enough to be concerned about. But now things have…changed, for lack of a better description. I recently bought a pair of rainbow thigh highs from Amazon. They came with matching arm sleeves. I wore them only in my bedroom for a while. I wasn’t too big a fan of either at first, tbh, but I’ve grown to enjoy them. And then I bought two more pair of thigh highs from sock dreams and suddenly, it’s like my personality underwent a huge shift. I went from wearing the thigh highs and sleeves only in my bedroom to wearing them everywhere in a matter of (ones of) days. I’ve worn thigh highs every day for the past week and I’ve worn the sleevies out in public a few times. I fucking love them. I want more. Anyway, in addition to wearing them out in public, I’ve even been taking certain types of pics I’m usually too self-conscious to take. One of those pics is very suggestive, but I’ll get back to that because now’s the part where I explain how this relates to me questioning my sexuality again. So let’s skip back to about a week ago. I had slept in the socks and just woke up. Normally, I daydream some spicy things to prep myself in the morning, if you catch my drift. I still did this day, but my daydream very quickly went from me plus a female to me plus five other males. One for each hand, one for my mouth, one for another hole and the last just laying on my belly/chest (69 position). And in that moment, I really wanted that to happen (and a week later, I’m still wanting the two for the hands and maybe the one for mouth/face). Going back to the aforementioned pic that I took…just thinking about that pic makes me wish I had something to suction cup to the wall ? . . . . . . . . Uh…anyway…yeah… I’ve had moments in the past where I questioned myself like this (though with examples other than lewdy thigh high pics). Like, every so often, I just really want a dick shoved in me. And more often than that, I just wanna have a sack to grab onto and just…fondle….. I’m gonna have to go ahead and end this post before I send myself into a mood o^o But to finish out the details for this post: I am attracted to females more than males, definitely, but I have accepted pics from guys too and shared my own back with some of them. And I’ll RP with anyone, regardless of sex or gender.

I meant to take like a 2-week hiatus due to work (we had the a-hole inspector coming and I needed to stay off my phone in case he showed up during my shift). Two weeks turned into two months (for the same reason as before). At the end of the two months, I just felt like I didn’t have a whole lot to contribute to the forum, so I decided to stay away for a bit longer, that way my return would have a decent amount of stuff to talk about. I didn’t have any diaper stories, no public experiences, nothing. “Just a bit,” however, turned out to be about half a year according to my math I just did? So uh, I’ll try to not let so much time pass between visits again and check in more often (I knew it had been a bit, but oml). I do have a few life updates to post in other threads than this one, so at least the intent of the hiatus worked out anyway. So, in short, I’m still here and I’ll try to show up more often again.

I decided to wait an extra day just in case the ups package was it. It got overnighted from Georgia to Kentucky and was delivered at about noon today. M.2 drives apparently don’t come with mounting screws and the screw size they use have very tiny threads. Some of the tiniest I’ve seen yet. I did manage to find a couple of screws with heads barely big enough to hold the drives and got them installed and set up. Now I need to figure out how to migrate windows to the new drive without having to do a backup (from one drive) and restore (to the new) or having to do a reinstall. I kinda wonder if I can just cut/paste all the files on drive C:\ over to what is currently drive E:\ and then swap the drive letters around (E becomes C and C becomes E).

I’m arguing with someone on YouTube about mirrors (don’t ask; I can’t figure it out either). That combined with what I just witnessed with Amazon, I’m going to end up having a stroke or something smh. I checked the tracking number again from Amazon support just to verify that it still says the same thing. It does. But for the heck of it, I decided to try the original tracking number again… The original tracking number was changed from USPS to UPS and it works again? It says the package is in Georgia. Now idk what tracking number to follow. When the original number went invalid, I tried it on the usps website, I tried it on ups and fedex and they all declined it. I don’t know anymore if either number can be trusted. I still need to get in contact with support again anyway to get the order replaced, so I’ll ask about the tracking then. I hope they can figure out what is in the package with the original number (as well as the second number) that way I won’t get told to wait a few more days before doing anything. I want them to either confirm that it actually is finally on its way or go ahead and replace it. I don’t care to send the extras back once (if) they arrive. I’m just tired of waiting. These should have been delivered to my house either this past Friday or Saturday. I would have been off work and could have installed the drives and got the data moved over. Now I’ll need to wait until this weekend to do it, assuming it actually gets here this week. Else I’ll have to do it next weekend.

In terms of Amazon, I think it’ll turn out okay. I just want my stuff by the weekend so I can have a chance to install it and get tons upon tons of data moved around. As for the ticks, my only concern is Lyme disease. Well, and damaging my skin badly from all the scratching. I have anti itch gel that I’ve used a few times for the bites. I haven’t used it today, so I take that as a sign that I’m healing well. And I’ll take it that when I ate a cheeseburger earlier and didn’t have an allergic reaction that I don’t have Lyme disease either lol. Most of the ticks I pulled off that were attached weren’t attached long enough to transfer any diseases. There were only like three that I found later that had been there long enough to. Noting the lack of any rashes forming (except on my armpit where I’ve scratched a ton), I still think I’m fine.

I ordered a couple of 1 TB m.2 SSD drives for my computer as well as a 3 pack of 8” mounting rails (unrelated to the computer) on the 12th. The total cost of the package was about $250 (the SSD drives each had a $30 discount). I get the order placed and later get the email that the package has shipped. That’s where things started going downhill. I checked the tracking for the package after I got the email and it said the package had a departure scan in Tennessee. I checked it the next day…and it said the tracking number was invalid. Sure enough, my tracking number had 9 digits and usps tracking numbers have 12. I figured Amazon probably did that thing again where the tracking number was for someone else and I had another package from another website that had shipped around the same time, so I decided to wait until Amazon’s estimated delivery date to get in contact with them. Well, the day finally came and I decided to go take a hike in our yard (through the woods) to kill some time waiting for the mail to run. I ended up walking through a tick nest apparently because after I gave up waiting for the mail (it was so hot and muggy outside), I took a shower and later found myself absolutely covered in baby ticks. Too many to count, but there were at least 100 of them, no exaggeration. Half of them had already gotten latched to me and the other half were still running around trying to find a spot. I did my best to remove the ticks (using tape and tweezers) and I am still covered in bites as I type this. They got all over my feet and legs. One of my butt cheeks is covered in bites, part my back is, my arms. This is torture. The itchiness has calmed way down over the past couple of days, but it still gets unbearable now and then. Anyways, the package also didn’t arrive, and without a working tracking number, I can’t see what’s going on with it. So I called the post office. Of course it was on a day they close five hours early (Saturdays), so I managed to get a hold of Amazon via their messaging system on the website. I explain my package situation to them and they give me a new tracking number. It actually worked, but it said usps themselves are still waiting for the package (“Departed Shipping Partner Facility, USPS Awaiting Item”). I was still on chat at this time, so I relayed that back to them. They wanted me to wait until [midnight tonight] to see if the status finally changes or if it gets delivered, etc. Well. USPS tracking still says what it has been saying and the package has not been delivered. I did notice something though. The Amazon support person wanted me to wait until [midnight tonight] before getting a hold of them again. When I visit the order details (specifically, the tracking section), it says something about sorry about the package being late, if it hasn’t arrived by 9pm [today], to come back [to that page] to request a refund or replacement. The person I was chatting with was basically telling me what the tracking page would have said! I considered just reordering everything and then getting a refund on the original package, but the SSD drives aren’t discounted that much any more. I’d have to pay an extra $30-$40 for the overall price of the order. Not only that, but idt I can actually afford to front the cost of the replacement order to begin with. My best option was to just wait it out and see what happened. That brings us to right now. I still have a few hours before I can request a replacement order. It’s better than still having full days left, but still. I know for a fact it won’t arrive today because the mail already ran before I left the house for work. I give it a 5% chance the package will finally make it into the system before the end of the day, but that’s a very generous estimate. I wonder if they’ll let me get free overnight shipping or something after having to wait almost a full week after I ordered it for it to actually get shipped. Everything in the order was and still is eligible for prime, which I have, so it’s not like they have to wait for some random person to get one item to them before they could ship it; they already had all the items.

I forget the specifics, sadly, but one day I was waiting on the mail and I needed to poop kinda bad. I waited and waited and was about to go to the bathroom to abort my plan when I saw the vehicle show up and turn around. I don’t remember at what point I filled my underwear (it was between seeing the mailman and them getting turned around), but I walked to the mailbox with a nice bulge between my cheeks. 11/10: highly recommend

Well, good news is already have some of those lmao. Bad(?) news is I think one came in handy… I had started playing my drums again and getting the kick pedal readjusted (I had the tension too tight and couldn’t get an effective hit) and a friend messaged me to ask if I wanted to go to his cousins with him and his gf. I said yes and went and got ready. I was already wearing a pull-up because of my underwear situation (read the op). They came and got me after they ate and we went to their house first to chill just a moment. I had been feeling a #2 wanting to happen (I just noticed a common theme with these accidents), but the pressure never built up enough to warrant even an attempt to go. I also felt a need to pee that I ignored. I wasn’t 100% sure I’d make it to the cousins house (about an hour or so drive away), but I felt confident enough. I may or may not have leaked a little during the ride there. I remember the urge coming in and out in waves but none were never at a level I would consider “desperate.” Anyway, at one point, I smelled pee. I wasn’t wet down there and my pull-up wasn’t swelled and baggy like I had peed in it. But I didn’t need to pee so bad anymore. I figured it was probably because of my previous couple days because I hadn’t showered yet. The urge did come back equally as strong as before. After we got to his cousins, I went to the bathroom. It seemed like the front of my pull-up was completely dry. But the way that I smelled pee in the car and how my urge had subsided…I can’t shake the feeling that something happened in that moment and that I should be thankful I was wearing protection. As for the rest of you saying I should get checked out…I think I might have to agree. I have had some very close calls in the past, but what I’ve been experiencing lately is on another level. There have been times in the past I got the urge real good and strong and thought I wasn’t going to make it and then when I do make it, I have to stand there for a few seconds before it starts to flow. And then recently, well, you read one example in this very post.

Heh, you misunderstood. I just meant that I don’t own it. My dad does. I could have chosen a better wording lol, oops. When we first moved in, he inspected the entire house and found the issue with the shingles very early on and a few other things. He told the company who was responsible for fixing it. They fixed the more minor things, but not the shingles. He kept complaining and complaining and complaining and the company just never gave a single crap about it. I’m wanting to pay to have someone to come and finally fix it. My dad should be able to sue the original company to recover the cost of repair, according to him. If wood wasn’t so damn expensive, we could build a new front porch and steps. The only thing we can do about the outlets is go to Lowe’s and buy replacement parts. We’ll be out that cost ourselves, but it shouldn’t be a whole lot.

I’m not the owner, but our house needs quite a bit done. Shingle repair over the bathroom and possibly now the living room, new front porch, new back porch, my dad wants to put a fresh coat of aluminum sealer on the shed, trees need cut down……It’s not a priority, but we have some electrical outlets that need reattached to the walls (they decided nailing boxes to studs was for losers, even though it’s technically against electrical code to not). I’m about 90% sure one light socket needs replaced (the one in the bathroom where the shingles need repaired), there’s a ton of water damage to the ceiling and walls and likely floors (again, because the shingle work). Some of the paneling on the outside of the house needs repaired.

I’ve been at around the 180 lb mark for quite a while. It was around middle school or early hs when I first got there. I was in my senior year when my weight started slowly going up again. I think I managed to hit 190. I could see the belly flab start to go over my pants waistline in a couple photos taken around that time. And then I had to have my appendix removed. A weeks worth of hospital food followed by a week of a shifty appetite (I’d be hungry but then could only eat a little bit before I felt full) and then an entire month or so of constant bathroom breaks and I dropped a tad below 180. As far as I’m aware, I haven’t went much above that number again, even after I finally got back to my normal eating habits for several years. I hear you in that tap water thing. It’s not you. A lot of tap water sucks. City areas add too much sulfur or whatever. It leaves an egg taste and smell. My area uses just a tad too much chlorine. I haven’t personally used them myself, but I imagine you could get one of those tap filters to get those extra unwanted flavors out. I found water coming from our fridge tastes better than straight from the tap, probably because of a filter I can’t find but probably needs changed by now. While you generally should stay away from salts, don’t forget that a little bit is actually good for you (same with [natural] sugars). Your body expels water and salt as you sweat and you need to replace whatever gets sweated out. If you usually add salt to a particular food, be careful about how much you add. I generally find that a small amount is enough for most foods I add it to.

Biological warfare ?

I got home from work. I went to the bathroom a few minutes before I left and I had been feeling a number two wanting to happen (it never did). Once home, I took my shoes off and felt another urge to pee, which I went and did. I finished getting out of my work clothes and remembered that my dad wanted to change a part in the air conditioner (we replaced the fuse with a mini circuit breaker when I initially fixed it and he was wanting to buy a new one for the person who lent it to us (my own decision), but he couldn’t find a replacement, so he went and got spare fuses instead to swap back out with). After I replaced the breaker with the fuse and got it all together again, I needed to per again. I went and put the tools away and went to the bathroom. As I stepped into the bathroom, I felt something happen, but at the same time, I felt nothing happen, if that makes sense. I reached down and felt a decent wetness around my crotch area. I had peed enough to make a wet spot on the outside of my jeans roughly the size of two quarters! The pants and underpants I was wearing, I absolutely hate them. They’ve got a lot of holes in them. The only reason I was wearing the underpants is because they were the first ones I grabbed that were still in wearable condition (I’ve several pairs that need tossed out). The reason I was wearing the jeans is because they were the easiest to grab at the time. Now, the reasons stated above about why I was wearing those specific undies and jeans aren’t the full reasons I put them on. I had planned to do one final messing in them before actually throwing them out. This put me in a slightly awkward, but favorable position. I slightly peed myself in a pair of pants I don’t care about and it left a fairly decent wet spot on the front. Since I was wearing a long t shirt that could cover it up, I decided to pee myself a little more; get my entire crotch fairly damp. Not too much, though. I might still have to do stuff for other people. Once I was satisfied that I probably got wet enough, I finished in the toilet. Round two hit not too long later. I went to the bathroom and decided to do the same thing. I let the wetness on my pants grow a bit bigger this time. I didn’t let it get big enough to start down my pant legs so that I could keep it hidden under my shirt. I was wanting to try to mess at this point, but then my mom came home and needed my help, so I aborted that plan for the time being and went to help her (for once, I actually couldn’t figure out how to solve her problem). Again, it wasn’t too long later I got hit with the third need to pee. I did the same thing as previously but stopped my stream a bit late and it started to run down my pant legs. It wasn’t too much, but it barely showed below my shirt. Finished in the toilet and tried to mess. That didn’t happen, so I went back to my room to kill some time. I knew the urge would eventually hit and I’d be able to push it out. As I said in the opening paragraph, it didn’t happen, but I did get the last urge to pee for the night. Yet again, I released some into my pants before finishing in the toilet. Remember how my pants were full of holes? A couple drops escaped and hit the floor. I then went to my room and went to bed in my wetted pants. Then this morning, I got up and went to the bathroom, peed myself a little to get my crotch wet again, changed out of undies too as I got ready for work, and then left. Once I get home later, I’ll change back into those undies and jeans and continue that cycle.

Their recommendations are pretty okay, but it hit a nail on the head that I didn’t realize I needed hit. I was browsing electrical stuff and it showed me something I immediately seen a use for. I have a project in mind. I’m wanting to make a “safety plug,” as I’m going to call it, for testing high voltage circuits. The plan was to use one of those square plugs like you’d find on the back of computer power supplies or Xbox power bricks and then have it wired into a power switch and then wire the switch to a gfci receptacle. The thing Amazon showed me combined the square receptacle and power switch and it even included a 10 amp fuse. It would be perfect for the project, which I already some parts for in one of my lists. I also still need a case for my new phone. I found a good one on there. It’s original selling price was like $60 and it was on sale for $20. I bought it but it hasn’t shipped yet.

So I deleted the attachment from my account but I can’t delete it from the original post lol. I tried to upload just the main event to my account but the file size is well over the forum limit, even after very heavily trimming the unimportant parts out. I did manage to convince my phone to communicate with my camera, though, so I was able to get it uploaded to YouTube. Our home internet got fixed finally, but I’m still waiting for a decision to be made about my computer (I ordered a part that can be used but it’s not supposed to be delivered until Sunday). Anyway, here is the link to the video. It’s the full-length recording, but it’s only 2 minutes and 12 seconds long. Skip to the two-minute mark to see the main event, but the entire video is interesting. For the best viewing experience, I recommend turning the volume up so you can hear the rain fairly well. If you’re okay with doing so, I more recommend going full volume with a good pair of headphones capable of deeper sounds (low frequencies).

I thought I was lucky too until I started my damage report lol. Turns out I’m still fairly lucky. As far as I can tell so far, we’re out the cost of a 24v (doorbell) transformer. The cable company took care of the cable box and internet box. Since the computer is still under warranty, there’s a decent chance the replacement will be free, but I’m not going to be too surprised if they make me pay shipping to send the current board back. It would appear everything else in the house survived.

…then it all went downhill from there. I like recording weather videos, so when it came a storm two nights ago (technically yesterday morning), of course I wanted to record some lightning through my window. I started with a ten-minute recording and caught some cool footage. In one of the cluster of flashes, I could hear the static from the lightning get picked up by the camera’s microphone. After that ten minutes, though, I decided to connect an external mic so I could pick up the rain sounds better. Skip a couple recordings in between then and around 5 AM (I was thinking of camera positioning). I was waiting to record at least one bright flash and loud boom of thunder before I put the camera away. I was getting ready to give up, as I was physically holding the camera in my hand with my hand resting in my lap, but then it happened. I know not where it struck, but the lightning had to have hit in the back yard somewhere. A few bright flashes and a very loud clash of thunder and then I was in a very dark room. It scared the living shit out of me when it happened. You can see me shake the hell out of the camera in the flashes of light. But like I said, it was now dark. The lightning took our power out. Oh boy, if only that was all the lightning did. By the time I woke up and got a better assessment of the situation, I learned a few things. Our air conditioner didn’t run. The lightning killed the little transformer (most likely) it has, so the thermostat doesn’t even power up. It killed the internet modem, so we had no internet or phone. It also killed one of our cable boxes. It wouldn’t be until the next day (today) that I learned of the last thing, but I’ll get to that. My dad went out while I was asleep today and got a new cable box and internet modem for us. I go through the pain of getting it all connected and everything in roughly 85F temps (because of the storm, it was also humid still). I connected the new internet box first (there are two of them now), then the cable box. I hopped on the computer to finish setting up the WiFI (changing to the old name and password so everything can connect without doing anything extra) and…computer said no network connection. I checked and verified that the cable was indeed plugged in. I even tried connecting it to another port on the router. The computer would not connect to the network. I would believe the onboard Ethernet card on the motherboard has taken a hit too and is also destroyed. Thankfully, if the computer did take a loss to it’s Ethernet port, it’s still under warranty. Ive already talked to tech support and they said they’d have to escalate my ticket and I’d get an email after 24-48 hours. I figured for now, I could connect one of my Ethernet - USB adapters I already have, that way I could at least get it back online. I couldn’t find it. I tried tethering it to my phone hotspot. It didn’t see it. Now I need to wait to see what tech support says about my issue before I buy another adaptor of any kind for it. So I figured I’d do some internet related stuff on my phone/iPad……. I connected my phone to the WiFi for the first time and was asked to go through an activation process. I did. The internet and the cable box both got activated. I tried to mess around online. Let’s say that I ended up disconnecting from WiFi and turned on my data and hotspot again because it provided a faster internet connection. No, I am not exaggerating. I started a game download on Xbox before I came to work. I kept an eye on the download rate. The absolute highest I saw it reach was around 4 Mbps. The average was around 500 kbps. I decided to check if the cable at least worked. Nope. Something about “we cannot tune to this channel right now” and to try again later or call a number. My dad is taking care of that while I’m at work, so we’ll see how that turns out. So that’s how my past couple of days have been. No internet or phone, no cable, no AC, likely a broken computer….. At least I got a heck of a video out of it. If we ever get the computer back online, I’ll get it uploaded to YouTube and share a link here. Looking at the individual frames, I can see shades of orange reflecting off parts of my window. I have a recording of the recording I can post here. I’ll delete it and replace it with the YouTube link once it’s available. FullSizeRender.mov

That barrel type is massive, but I may be able to find a car long enough to sit it in. Keep in mind N scale is friggin small. Some cars, the entirety of could fit in just the palm of your hand. I’ll add the barrel camera to my wishlist because I might could use it (and also it’s just cool). Another thing too, I don’t want the camera being mounted to be too wide. Eventually I plan to put a tunnel back up (we’re gonna go look at tables Friday).

I’d like to (and just about would have to) build a camera car for mine because the scale is so small. I’m thinking get a cheap box car and mutilate it as needed. I’d about have to build my own camera circuit or pay someone else to. I can’t decide between battery operation or put electrical pickups on the wheels so it’ll be powered from the rails. Either way, that’s a project for another day. And if you have any of those videos on YouTube, I’d like to watch one or two.

PayPal has this nice new-ish feature where if you log in on a device, it will remember you in the future. It makes checking out easier. If logging in on another device, it asks for a password and sends an email about it. It’ll also ask for a password to view the more sensitive stuff regardless of your previous use of that device. Whenever I can, I’ll use PayPal to pay for everything because I don’t have to get my debit card out and type 25 numbers plus the security code for every purchase. If I’m out and about when I need to make such a purchase, I don’t want to have my card out where anyone can just take a pic of it for later, or come by and grab it and run. The few websites that don’t accept PayPal, I have my card info stored on it for the same reason. I try to keep my passwords for those sites different from the others.

Lmao these things make me wonder why a person would use someone else’s valid email address to create their own fake account? Like do they think that since it wasn’t you who created the account, you’re not going to care? As soon as someone uses my email to create their account, I reset the password on that account and lock them out. With the first guy who created the insta account with my email, after I locked him out, I kept getting password reset emails sent to me. I found it quite hilarious.

Let me walk you through a small story. It begins as my dad and I were finally headed home after he picked me up from work. He had texted me earlier to say the drums arrived and there were two boxes. I figured one box was the heads and stuff and the other box was the frame/stand. We’re on our way home and he mentions the boxes again and I gave my theory. He said the frame had to have been telescopic if that were the case because the boxes were too small, but they were heavy. I kept with my theory because I didn’t have any references to go off of. We finally get home and both boxes were in the living room. They were huge, but one box was just a plain ole shipping box and the other had a grayscale image of the drum set on it. I still stuck with my theory, though I was questioning it. I grabbed the plain box to take to my room. It was actually fairly lightweight. I opened it up and it was stuffed full of paper. After removing one handful, I saw another box with the words “expansion kit” printed on it and I immediately knew what was up. I opened it up to take a look. It contained one head, one cymbal and some cords (and a pole to mount the cymbal to and likely another connector for the head). After getting the stuff back into the box and closing it, I carried it to the room it would be set up in. Then I went to get the other box. That box was heavy as well as large, so instead of taking it to my room as initially planned, I took it straight to the other room. It took over an hour to get home from work, so by this point, I’m running low on time. After taking a few pics (will attach here), I put it all away. Skip to today and I decide to set up the frame to get an idea of how much space it will take up and where I’d likely need to set it up at. My mom walked in at some point before I started rearranging stuff and she helped out with that. Then I started putting it together. I removed several boxes from the larger box (the big plain box is no longer part of the story, so it was the box the kit itself came in) and found the poles that made up the frame. Some parts came in red bags and other in clear backs. Turns out it was color coding. Red bags for left side and clear for right side. Anyway, I looked up an assembly video and discovered that the instruction book and a few other important stuff was in a box labeled “accessories.” So I opened it up and found a quick assembly guide. By the time I managed to get the frame set up, it was time for me to gtfo for work, so that’s where the process ends. But I have more to talk about. Remember how the one box was labeled “accessories?” All other boxes were also labeled. One box was labeled “snare,” but it had two heads stuffed inside (it was the only other box I opened, which was the previous night). There was a box for the kick pedal, and then two more for the kick drum, so that’s confusing. I’ll need to check it out tonight. Anyway, there was a box called “module,” which I assume is the computer itself because what else would it be. So there’s as full of an update as I have right now. Of course I’m going to take a pic once it’s all set up (and give ‘er a test run). I couldn’t help but notice a mass of cabling with labels on each wire. I remember one was labeled “snare,” so I would believe I can wire whatever I want to whatever sound I want from it. This is a massive plus over the floor model at guitar center. That model had a feature where the snare and one of the toms had an additional “pad” on the rim of the head. The snare’s rim was wired for another snare (I’m assuming because the mesh was loose and the head produced almost no sound) and the tom’s rim was wired for tambourine. I’m thinking wire the snare rim for, well, rim hit (technically the instruction is called side stick), and the tom rim (if equipped) to cowbell. I’ll need to figure out the two snare heads themselves. I’m thinking there’re two because midi defines two different snare sounds. If I can’t tell a difference between them, I’ll see if I can’t set one up for hand clap.

I’ve put myself in an awkward spot. The room my model train is in is also used by my dad for music stuff. He has amps and many guitars, a desk, small table with a printer on it. I just did some rearranging before I got ready for work today to get an idea of how much space my new drums are going to take up (I got the frame/stand out together). We need a larger table for the train, but the drums are going to take up a bit of the needed space for it. I only have the frame together but I’ll need to add at least a couple of the heads and cymbals on to get a much better idea. The frame doesn’t have a set..spread, so it’d be easy to get it all cramped together too much, especially after adding on the expansion kit, but it would also be easy to spread them out more than necessary. I’ll talk about all this in my drum topic. As for new tables, we’re supposed to go look at some in a couple days or so. We need one that’s not quite as wide as the current one (like 46” or something) but definitely longer (currently 22”). Idr the current height. Like four feet or something. We need one roughly the same.

They probably thought you’d have a credit card or something stored on your account or they planned to use it for malicious purposes (or both). The first Instagram related thing, where the guy used my email to create the account, he had sent out a few messages to a few people. He was pretending to be some type of fraternity and targeted men of certain statures (basically claiming the supposed fraternity was for homosexual males but without actually saying that). He had the account set up as a business account. After I took over the account, I thought “I should have waited and seen if he’d put credit/debit card info.” Anyways, after I got my account back (and downloaded the account history ), I basically abandoned Instagram again. I kept the app in case a similar situation happened again or if he decided to keep trying. Neither happened and I didn’t touch the app again for…I’m going to estimate three years. As for two factor authentication and such, I have it on both my gmail addresses and I think messenger. It’s also on my Apple account (and all my Apple devices have find my iPhone turned on (it locks the device to your Apple account regardless if you actually ever use the app or not)). Idr microsoft (should be). And then just about everything sends me an email or notification when my account logs in somewhere and they include ip addresses and locations. Since there have been zero successful break-ins, those were all from me. I have a few extra things I can do across a few of my accounts and devices to secure them pretty good, but the main ones I care about are safe. My yahoo account isn’t set up for two factor, but it is linked to my main gmail and then both gmail accounts are linked to each other.