What happened to the smartest kid in your class?

@DarkHeaven I was a musician for 20 years. Employed most of the time. Made some money. Found more profitable venues. Not as much fun, but that’s the way it goes.

@jackson55 yeah. I was employed a lot of it. From 18 until 31 when I got sick. So 13 years playing in bands and what not.

@DarkHeaven That’s cool. I played in two different bands over the years, and did some studio work for different groups. Retired long ago.

@jackson55 First five years I had to supplement my gig money with commercial modeling in catalogs to pay rent and shit but the last 8 was while in two bands (not at the same time) that were much better than my first one and I didn’t need the extra income. Last five years we were just doing gigs and festivals nd trying to get a label. We got really close but then I got ill and fucked it up for everybody. Maybe not fully as every one of the people in the band has had some measure of success in the business except for me. Oh well. 🤷‍♀️

@jackson55 studio work would be fun. I’d love to get in a sound booth.

@DarkHeaven So sorry for your issues. But you did get to play with some success. That’s more than some in the business.
But as you probably know, the music business can be a grind.

@DarkHeaven For me, the studio work paid the best.

@jackson55 Yes, it can. Just makes me sad that we almost got picked up and then I ruined it. I started getting ill around my birthday in November. We had been scouted already and were supposed to meet with A&R about a label deal after the holidays. Things just got worse and worse for me and I didn’t come back in January and I kept spiraling until I ended up in the hospital on Valentine’s Day some 17 years ago today.

@jackson55 my how time flies.

@DarkHeaven I can tell you are smart…

@Jlhzfromep I love math, science, and literature. I always had straight A’s but music was my calling.

@Jlhzfromep and ty. 😊

@Jlhzfromep sometimes I’ll get to have a truly intellectual conversation on here that makes me think. That’s fun.

@Jlhzfromep here was one that was a great thought exercise for quantum physics.

https://similarworlds.com/nature-outdoors/4687146-What-collapses-the-wave-function

@DarkHeaven elegant theorem .. a basis for Schrödinger's cat

@DarkHeaven I think you're living your best life. Who gives a crap about anyone else.

@lumberjackslam that’s fair. And I don’t need much really between my parents setting us up and my wife’s career. We have what we need. I mean we aren’t banking or nothing but we make all our bills and save a bit for retirement or if something comes up.

@lumberjackslam I mean we own the house and it’s on 40 acres of our own land. We could literally go fully off grid if we wanted.

@DarkHeaven wow cool. so whats stopping you from doing anything you want? I fully understand the seriousness of mental disorders.

@lumberjackslam it’s a lot of work. Even farming a large garden (enough to sustain,) and livestock (enough to sustain,) is a lot of work. Plus you gotta kind understand our setup. Like my Da’s land is technically just over 400 acres but they sold us the farmhouse I grew up on and the 40 acres directly surrounding it including the huge pond I grew up swimming in. It’s just barely too small to be called a lake so that takes up a good amount of what we are talking about. The best parts to work they kept because they lease that out to active ranchers in the area as part of their retirement. I mean… I’ve thought about growing a garden but you have to have a lot of different stuff to be off grid, not like all corn like a farmer would. As far as meat the ranchers that actually lease his land give him a lot of meat as well as the rent for the land and it’s more than they could ever eat (beef and pork because these guys raise a few pigs too but just for butchering and eating not to sell,) so my parents like stock our deep freeze with meat all year along with my older brother and his family. My younger brother doesn’t live around here, so just us. Even at that it’s still more meat than what all of us can eat so we all end up donating what meat we can’t eat to less fortunate folks in the community or other older ranches my Da knows that can’t work anymore. I mean we are sort of a little off grid but it’s a lot of work to go fully and I kinda like my creature comforts a little too. We are trying to save up for horses, though. My wife knows how much I miss riding and wants for us to have some. The barn already has stabling, so we have what we need but it’s just upkeep of horses is stupid expensive and I want to make sure we could deal with the all of the ongoing expenses of them and what not.

@lumberjackslam I mean we got plans it just takes time.

@lumberjackslam sorry that was a stupid long reply. lol

@DarkHeaven No problem I was just making dinner

@DarkHeaven that's actually pretty interesting. I just imagine what I would do with it if I had even 1 acre. sounds like you are sitting on a gold mine. but seriously I have been trying for over a year now to outfit my van for off grid living using solar power. so I can only imagine how it would be to do that to a large amount of land. you have many different options I am sure.

@lumberjackslam the taxes are expensive. My parents are paying them still now. I’m a pathetic mooch.