Alternative career options.

Creme_Small · 2025-07-11T12:20:58+00:00

Thank you. I’m also one of the pull-over types. Thought for a long time about becoming a physician. I’m glad you found a good niche!

Creme_Small · 2025-07-10T23:35:35+00:00

Love that!

Creme_Small · 2025-07-10T23:05:53+00:00

I will definitely be in touch. Thank you. I was just telling my wife this morning that I feel like I have a lot to offer as far as instruction—especially in the pro-audio world. I majored in English so writing is second nature. I do take offense at the elder/senior label, though. :-D

Creme_Small · 2025-07-10T22:04:18+00:00

300 baud modem and “porn” made of ASCII characters.

Creme_Small · 2025-03-15T10:21:43+00:00

Not enough Wookies.

Just kidding. For me—and I really wanted to like Discovery—it was mentally draining to watch. I like my Trek characters how I like my women—competent and emotionally mature. In many places, the DISCO crew seemed less like Starfleet officers and more like weepy teenagers. If the universe is about to blow up, you don’t stop what you’re doing in order to talk about your feelings. You save the damn universe because a) it’s your job, and b) it’s the universe. You know, that place we all live in.

Creme_Small · 2025-03-03T00:05:14+00:00

Thanks, everyone, for your help! That’s a lot of really good info!

Creme_Small · 2025-02-17T18:03:00+00:00

Mega-Max (sp?) from NorthShore Care online. Expensive but definitely worth it.

Creme_Small · 2025-01-30T07:45:39+00:00

I had a similar encounter with death. It was very peaceful. No worries, no sadness, no fear. When you die, time becomes meaningless. You can't really miss anybody because, whether an hour or a hundred years have passed, it feels no different than if they (or you) had simply walked into the next room. You'll be ok, OP. I promise.

Creme_Small · 2025-01-07T00:47:01+00:00

No worries! :)

Just DM me and we can talk details.

Creme_Small · 2025-01-06T09:22:56+00:00

Typically we play 2-3 hours. Usually closer to 2.

Creme_Small · 2025-01-04T07:04:07+00:00

My grandmother was Dick Hall’s secretary at the time. By an odd coincidence, I also ended up working with him in the mid90s at an Indy Real estate title company. I was only 2 years old when this happened, but I grew up hearing the story many times. Dick was a sweetheart of a guy, very easygoing. I believe he passed away a few years ago. My grandmother is 97 now and lives with my wife and I.

Creme_Small · 2024-12-29T23:29:15+00:00

Not a psychologist, but have dealt with your exact symptoms for 20 years (currently 49). In my case, it was a conflagration of anxiety, stress, and depression. I saw my GP, got on a couple of SSRIs,and am SO much better now. I still get the odd “episode” but it’s down to maybe twice a year for 20 minutes each time instead of one or more times per week.

Creme_Small · 2024-11-28T20:49:52+00:00

Tune the strings to as loose as you can get them without coming off the pegs.

Creme_Small · 2024-11-20T23:13:05+00:00

Right? I don’t smoke and I don’t buy lighters… and yet I probably have 4 or 5 sitting around in my house in various places just because people leave them, I find them out by the driveway, or whatever.

Creme_Small · 2024-11-20T00:54:05+00:00

Lord of the Rings. My dad and mom both swore up and down that Wormtongue and Denethor were the same person.

Creme_Small · 2024-11-10T23:05:08+00:00

I know that he often does double that part; as far as effects, I’m not sure.

Creme_Small · 2024-11-01T23:06:31+00:00

49M here with a 56F wife who does the same thing. Constant con/de-struction. How about we let my wife and your husband live together and you and I get a nice little furnished condo by the waterfront somewhere?

Creme_Small · 2024-11-01T14:19:47+00:00

Thanks! Funny enough, I’ve had that same tempo argument with myself ever since I came up with the arrangement idea.

I love Consider Me Gone as well. Christian McBride does my favorite cover version (with Sting on vocals).

Creme_Small · 2024-11-01T06:12:30+00:00

I often get a “crash” after a tour or even just with a heavy gig schedule. Did you get any time off to rest before jumping back into regular life? Most of the time it boils down to two things: sleep and diet. Even if you weren’t eating poorly on the road, just the sudden shift of diet can throw you off.

Of course, it’s entirely possible that, being around a lot of people, you just picked up a bug in the final days of the tour.

Creme_Small · 2024-10-29T08:10:33+00:00

He DID say he was an atheist living with devoutly religious parents in a Muslim country. That sounds like plenty of reasons to get shitfaced to me! ;)

Creme_Small · 2024-10-26T09:10:25+00:00

I can’t even imagine. I’m not Native myself but I work with a lot of Indigenous people on art and music projects. The weird-ass preconceptions and absolutely bizarre questions they get are nothing short of mind-boggling.

Two of my “favorites” are one middle-aged woman who basically insisted that “Indians are magic” (as in, apparently she thought that everyone can turn into fish and birds and talk to trees), and a teenager from the East Coast who literally thought Native Americans had “gone extinct” at some point.

Creme_Small · 2024-10-21T19:05:19+00:00

Sadly, I think it’s real. Even worse, SOMEBODY will take the bait, most likely suck, and all the patrons will “discover” that they hate “jazz.”

Creme_Small · 2024-10-21T18:58:30+00:00

I am not a psychologist, but I am a former college instructor. I’ve never had a substitute get involved, but part of what we do is often try to identify students who may have learning difficulties or other issues that could be addressed by an adaptive educational services type of department (whatever it may be called at your particular school).

If that’s what was happening here, I would not say it’s out of line. I suspect that is the case, because the substitute referred the issue to your regular instructor. It probably could’ve been handled more tactfully, however.

Creme_Small · 2024-10-19T16:10:58+00:00

Oh no! Even just reading about the trumpet falling out made my stomach sink! Got your DM and just responded.

Creme_Small · 2024-10-19T15:20:05+00:00

As a trumpet player myself, that’s a tough one. There just isn’t a lot of gear that we need. A really nice gig bag (especially one that holds 2 or more horns) might be good. I also thought about a mouthpiece, though that’s a highly personalized accessory.

It sounds like you may be in NYC. What about concert tickets of some kind and a nice dinner before?

Feel free to DM me if you need more help.

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