You ever wake up and think to yourself, "Yes, today will be a good day"... and then your day ends up going terribly? I'm only half way through my day today and it's already like that. How is everyone else doing today?
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Normal day here. Got a new fretless P bass in the mail yesterday, currently sitting on my bed getting used to having no frets, catching up on some parenthood til 1:00. Then class, then band prac, then thirsty thursday...such is college life.
But you Spencerthegreat have a better day!
But you Spencerthegreat have a better day!
Other than being tired from staying up too late last night (finishing our state taxes), I am great. I could gripe about this or that, but in the end, everything is going very well.
Ahh college life. Just wait until bills, children, a wife and work run your life.
TO be fair, I'm not having THAT horrible a day, I just got swamped with a lot of work I wasn't expecting to do.
Yep - been there many times. It helps me to think about how much worse the day might be if I hadn't had that fleeting moment of joy before the aggravation started... 
As for me...I'm having a great day. Except for this stupid thing on my back. *LONG POST WARNING!*
For at least 2-3yrs I've had a golf-ball sized lump on my back. My ex had the same thing (although hers was larger) and it was diagnosed as a harmless fatty tumor, so I assumed the same was true for mine. Well Monday it started swelling and itching. Now it's swollen to the point where it's pushing on my back muscles (or something else in there), and it stings and feels like it's about to pop. There's also some reddening around the area. I thought the swollen area was puss, so I made an emergency trip to the doc yesterday. She said she's seen it many times - basically there's a break between 2 layers of skin/tissue, and fatty tissue is protruding from it. Some people live with these their whole lives, some people get an infection and need to have it removed. But here's the kicker - when I play my strap rests right on top of it. In order to remove it they'll have to slice it open, pull the fatty tissue through the incision, slice it off and stitch me back up. Stitches would be in for 7-9 days. There's also the possibility that it's infected enough for them to have to leave it open, which would obviously delay the healing process.
We literally just wrapped up recording our first EP with Brett Hestla, and need to get a couple of practices in before our next show (next Friday). So I took the only feasible option...take antibiotics, hope it pops and/or the infection goes away, then schedule the procedure for next month when we'll have a span of about 3 weeks with no shows.
So now I have what amounts to a golf ball pushing on my insides when I sit down, that's itching, stings and is scaring the cr*p out of me thinking about the prospect of having an open wound with packing in it. And I can't play bass standing up...until/unless the swelling goes away, I'm not to have a guitar strap on. : /
/rant
As for me...I'm having a great day. Except for this stupid thing on my back. *LONG POST WARNING!*
For at least 2-3yrs I've had a golf-ball sized lump on my back. My ex had the same thing (although hers was larger) and it was diagnosed as a harmless fatty tumor, so I assumed the same was true for mine. Well Monday it started swelling and itching. Now it's swollen to the point where it's pushing on my back muscles (or something else in there), and it stings and feels like it's about to pop. There's also some reddening around the area. I thought the swollen area was puss, so I made an emergency trip to the doc yesterday. She said she's seen it many times - basically there's a break between 2 layers of skin/tissue, and fatty tissue is protruding from it. Some people live with these their whole lives, some people get an infection and need to have it removed. But here's the kicker - when I play my strap rests right on top of it. In order to remove it they'll have to slice it open, pull the fatty tissue through the incision, slice it off and stitch me back up. Stitches would be in for 7-9 days. There's also the possibility that it's infected enough for them to have to leave it open, which would obviously delay the healing process.
We literally just wrapped up recording our first EP with Brett Hestla, and need to get a couple of practices in before our next show (next Friday). So I took the only feasible option...take antibiotics, hope it pops and/or the infection goes away, then schedule the procedure for next month when we'll have a span of about 3 weeks with no shows.
So now I have what amounts to a golf ball pushing on my insides when I sit down, that's itching, stings and is scaring the cr*p out of me thinking about the prospect of having an open wound with packing in it. And I can't play bass standing up...until/unless the swelling goes away, I'm not to have a guitar strap on. : /
/rant
Oh man. That sucks. At least you can still play sitting down though. Also, I dunno if it would rub in the same place, but you could try one of those Damian Erskine double shoulder straps maybe. I know how you feel though. A number of years ago I broke my tailbone, and it never healed correctly, so no right at the bottom of my spine I have a lump, that gets all puss filled and gross and occasionally explodes from time to time. Gross I know... but it makes it impossible for me to sit down sometimes cause it feels like there is something the size of a marble stuck in the top of my ass crack. Thankfully I am not having that discomfort today. And the TMI award goes to... one of us that's for sure.
First off, would you be okay with me making this my signature? I'd love to see that below every post I make...
And second, I feel your pain. Well, sort of. When I was skiing with my folks (I was probably 7 or 8), I ran over my mom's skiis getting off a chairlift. She was a novice, and instead of recovering or falling the "proper way", she leaned back, somehow both of her skiis came out from under her and she fell right on her @ss, breaking her tailbone. She had to have surgery, had to sit on a donut for quite a while, never really skiid again, and had recurring pain in that area for years.
Needless to say she's never let me forget about it, despite the fact that it was clearly her fault for getting off the chairlift next to me when she should've known I might run her over...
You're more than welcome to steal that line.. it's a Spencer Original lol. I did this in 2002 or 3 and it still to this day bothers me. Stupid tailbone.
