Things You Are Stoked On But Not Stoked On

[Doodily]

Wearing a blue flannel and khaki pants to work; someone said I look like Debo.

You should have snatched their food during lunch break and said "That's my sandwich PUNK!"

[Mean salto]

Did my yearly OCD beverage tally.
204.5Lof ice coffee, 108.75L of soda (290 cans). About 20L more ice coffee than last year and 90 more cans of coke.  But managed to drink 150L more water this year and didn't have a single energy drink and only 3 beers instead of last year 48.
All aspects considerably better than 2019 ( and every year getting way better since I started recording in 2015, which I'm too scared to look at now)

[Banned from the room]

Got an amp head today. Pretty frickin stoked on it. I saved up for 3 months. I was out looking for a guitar but I couldn't find one that I liked within my price range.

Not stoked on that I have to wait 2 weeks to pick up the amp because it was just sold to them.

Anyway we're recording all the next two weeks I think. I'll be engineering two other projects too.

I'm stoked. We're making 4 more El Dee's pick of the weeks too.

I hope everyone has a happy and safe new years eve.

🔵🟠😘🔴

[Uh Oh]

Got an amp head today. Pretty frickin stoked on it. I saved up for 3 months. I was out looking for a guitar but I couldn't find one that I liked within my price range.

Not stoked on that I have to wait 2 weeks to pick up the amp because it was just sold to them.

Anyway we're recording all the next two weeks I think. I'll be engineering two other projects too.

I'm stoked. We're making 4 more El Dee's pick of the weeks too.

I hope everyone has a happy and safe new years eve.

🔵🟠😘🔴

Is that an X60B? Fun ol’ amp.

What type of guitar are you looking for ideally?

[Banned from the room]

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Got an amp head today. Pretty frickin stoked on it. I saved up for 3 months. I was out looking for a guitar but I couldn't find one that I liked within my price range.

Not stoked on that I have to wait 2 weeks to pick up the amp because it was just sold to them.

Anyway we're recording all the next two weeks I think. I'll be engineering two other projects too.

I'm stoked. We're making 4 more El Dee's pick of the weeks too.

I hope everyone has a happy and safe new years eve.

🔵🟠😘🔴

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Is that an X60B? Fun ol’ amp.

What type of guitar are you looking for ideally?

I'm just trying to get an Epiphone Les Paul or SG. I looked at some Gretsch jr's but was just out of reach.

[PuffinMuffin]

I break out into itchy hives every three months like clockwork. It's some sort of dermatitis. Woke up today with about 15% of my body covered in patches of the little itchy buggers. Any sort of physical activity with them feels terrible. Kinda stoked to get it over with this week because the weather is shitty and I can't skate anyways.   

[Banned from the room]

I break out into itchy hives every three months like clockwork. It's some sort of dermatitis. Woke up today with about 15% of my body covered in patches of the little itchy buggers. Any sort of physical activity with them feels terrible. Kinda stoked to get it over with this week because the weather is shitty and I can't skate anyways.   

I been living with this since the flood almost 18 months ago.

I'm sorry you gotta deal with this too. It's horrendous.

[PuffinMuffin]

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I break out into itchy hives every three months like clockwork. It's some sort of dermatitis. Woke up today with about 15% of my body covered in patches of the little itchy buggers. Any sort of physical activity with them feels terrible. Kinda stoked to get it over with this week because the weather is shitty and I can't skate anyways.   

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I been living with this since the flood almost 18 months ago.

I'm sorry you gotta deal with this too. It's horrendous.

No longer stoked, it's all over my face now. Really fucking itchy, and weeps. My face is so swollen, I can barely open my eyes, I look nothing like myself. I've been taking a bunch of Benadryl and applying antihistamine cream. Evidently, I'm extremely allergic to urushiol in food. Looking and feeling like a Cronenberg. Fuck this. 

[braksabbath]

I've spent years trying to remember what the graphic was from my (neighbor's) childhood board I knee pushed on as a kid. Really hoping I could at least find a clear image I could turn into a poster to hang up. All it took was 10 minutes of searching on Art of Skateboarding and I found it! Holy shit!!! Unfortunately it turned out to be the pro model for Chris Gentry, so... nevermind lol 

[JB]

My hot water heater took a shit. Had to dig into the ever depleting savings to fund a new one, but my dad help me install it so I didn't do too bad.

I was really worried it was going to totally bleed me dry, but it's almost tax season and I literally had $0 in my savings this time last year. After replacing the water heater and bitching about how much I hate my house, I realized that the only appliance type thing I haven't replaced is the furnace. Been at the house 4 years and we've redone every bedroom, everyone has gotten a new bed, TVs and furnature. New TV in the living room, new couch and table, new dining room table and chairs, completely redone kitchen with all new appliances, new washer, dryer, and drain tub, and now finally the hot water heater. When I look at it all together, it kinda feels like somewhat of an accomplishment on this dump. Stoked on that.

Watch my fucking roof cave in next month...

[Coastal Fever]

Feel you on the house maintenance.  We moved into a fairly solid fixer upper last year, and most of our work has been cosmetic (new floors and paint everywhere but the kitchen and bathrooms), but about to drop some cash on cleaning the furnace, ducts, raising the hot water heater that’s sitting in a puddle, topping up the oil, property taxes, etc.  My partner makes good money and has healthy savings, but I’m flat broke trying to keep up with the house, car repairs, and other bills.  My debt load isn’t the worst right now, but I’m terrified that one big repair will ruin me.  Too much pride to let her take on more than 50%, though.

[Easy Slider]

I haven‘t skated for over a month due to health issues but today I visited my brother in law who skated as a kid and he proposed a game of skate in his garage. Dude hasn‘t skated in almost 20 years but gave me a letter on a kickflip… he was riding a vintage 7.5“ toothpick with pink Ventures.  I wasn’t stoked on that but I saved my face by busting out a heelflip first try, which got me stoked.

[nonickname]

My son pulled an ancient set up (Justin Brock with my old 129s) out of the garage and asked if he could use it to start skating in the Spring (full blown winter here) - so there's the stoked part. But he's 14 so he'll probably lose all interest once it's above freezing.

[TheLurper]

I saw Jeffwon Song at the skatepark today.

What a fucking show that was.

[PuffinMuffin]

Been hitting the PT hard. Knees have been feeling more stable but the type of pain has changed. Instead of pain deep within the joint, it feels more located on the outside of the joints. I've been told this is normal because the tendons are stretching.

[braksabbath]

The local indoor park is a thriving small business that’s also the only scooter shop in the metro area

[Mean salto]

Supermarket only had one register open so had to wait like 30mins in line. It's a relatively new store that has 18 registers and 4 express ones. In the 4 years it's been open I've never seen more than two registers open and never seen the express open at all.
Anyway in line and this full esh piece of shit in front of me is loudly sooking the whole time just being so obnoxious then when it's finally his turn he is giving the teenage girl at the register so much shit then turns his head and spits. But he had forgotten he was wearing a mask so just looks like the biggest clown in front of the twenty other people in line

[Banned from the room]

My son pulled an ancient set up (Justin Brock with my old 129s) out of the garage and asked if he could use it to start skating in the Spring (full blown winter here) - so there's the stoked part. But he's 14 so he'll probably lose all interest once it's above freezing.

Congratulations! I usually start kids with hill bomb. I feel like it’s the most important trick to learn. I feel like when they master switch hill bomb they no longer are new to skateboarding. 

[friendly dave]

Covid test came back negative. So that just means I'm regular sick.

[Easy Slider]

Covid test came back negative. So that just means I'm regular sick.

Lol I know that feeling - being sick and everybody worries and then you turn out to be negative and everbody is like "great for you", but you're still sick. It's like any other illness doesn't count. Get well soon.

[Banned from the room]

My brother kicked me out. I have two weeks to get my things out.

I just started college two days ago.

I told mutual friends and my counselor at all these things would happen and they did.

I first threatened to fight me then he chose to call the cops when he realized that I would not have fought back.

The kids must NOT learn to act like this and if they do it’s NOT my doing. I teach communication NOT abuse.

My brother abuses every one.


This was all over me taking part of MY drum kit out to record in the studio.


I have no fucking idea what to do.

I can’t frickin take legal action against my family no matter what they do.

[Frank]

^

that's so fucked, have you made progress finding something or have things mellowed out maybe?


i'm looking for jobs and i hate looking for jobs, but amongst others i applied for a place run by a guy i used to work for who was pretty cool and i think i have a good chance of landing the gig. but i'm generally stressed out because no matter how petty the job or pay is, i always have anxiety attacks when i have to go the introduction meeting. today i had an appointment that i missed because they basically sent me the wrong place to go to and no phone number to call. i found out the actual place when i was already way late, and also when i was at the place i just had a bad feeling so i said fuck it.

[TheLurper]

New job.

Last job was boring in a lot of ways, job turned to shit as soon as they called us back into the office, and the pay was less than fair remuneration, and I was always working. BUT, I had a lot of vacation time, it was a super safe career path, the 401K matching was amazing (2 dollars for every dollar I pitched in but only up to 2K per year) and the hours were very very flexible. I bailed when the boss told me that my promotion would only lead to some bullshit raise that wouldn't change my life at all.

New job pays almost double the last job, it is 100% remote, and it could lead to a job that pays well enough to actually enjoy life in SF or Vancouver without 60 roommates. But, I lost a lot of vacation time and the job is going to be insanely boring.

My life revolved around my old job for so long, it'll be weird to have to develop a new sense of self.

[Mean salto]

Been binge watching degrassi high (the 85-90 one). It's a show that I enjoy and means a lot to me but it's pretty fucking chat for an adult to go  regression session that hard.

[Lame_Fella]

I’ve been planning on leaving my job in March because it is sucking the life out of me, but I planned on waiting until we get our yearly bonuses in early March. Well they just announced that in July the entire company is boosting their min wage to $23 an hour, which is a $3 pay raise for me.

Stoked on the pay raise but now I know I’m stuck because I’ll be hard pressed to find a remote service job that pays that.

[Morning Jazz Radio]

Went to the beach on Sunday with my dog (I live in SoCal). Brought my wetsuit to do a little bodysurfing, water was cold but super refreshing. I don't swim with my glasses and I don't wear contacts, but this surfer was yelling "whale, whale, whale." I was like fuck I can't see (I'm near sighted). I squint super hard and see a large blurry shape moving, so I hurry up back to the beach, put on my glasses and nothing. I guess it passed through within the time it took to get my glasses. My dog was like what's going on? Sucks having shitty vision, but stoked on being in the water while a whale was passing through.
 

[realbasedgod112]

the other day, i asked out a girl that i had been hung up on for a month or two. it wasn't valentines day, so maybe it lacked the romance that could have swayed her response.
if the previous sentence wasn't enough of an indication, she declined the offer. while i was bummed at first, it has cleared up a lot of space in my mind that i surrendered to the classic 'what if/maybe she' cycle.
besides, now that we're talking less i might finally learn tre flips.

[realbasedgod112]

Went to the beach on Sunday with my dog (I live in SoCal). Brought my wetsuit to do a little bodysurfing, water was cold but super refreshing. I don't swim with my glasses and I don't wear contacts, but this surfer was yelling "whale, whale, whale." I was like fuck I can't see (I'm near sighted). I squint super hard and see a large blurry shape moving, so I hurry up back to the beach, put on my glasses and nothing. I guess it passed through within the time it took to get my glasses. My dog was like what's going on? Sucks having shitty vision, but stoked on being in the water while a whale was passing through.

while seeing it would have been a big bonus, it sounds awesome being in the water with/near a whale. it's kind of a reminder that the sea isn't ours, we're just using it. if you think about it, that is. i've been thinking about a lot of things today.

[Morning Jazz Radio]

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Went to the beach on Sunday with my dog (I live in SoCal). Brought my wetsuit to do a little bodysurfing, water was cold but super refreshing. I don't swim with my glasses and I don't wear contacts, but this surfer was yelling "whale, whale, whale." I was like fuck I can't see (I'm near sighted). I squint super hard and see a large blurry shape moving, so I hurry up back to the beach, put on my glasses and nothing. I guess it passed through within the time it took to get my glasses. My dog was like what's going on? Sucks having shitty vision, but stoked on being in the water while a whale was passing through.

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while seeing it would have been a big bonus, it sounds awesome being in the water with/near a whale. it's kind of a reminder that the sea isn't ours, we're just using it. if you think about it, that is. i've been thinking about a lot of things today.

I know, wish I could have seen the whale. I seriously think about that too. Nature is magical, and it fuckin sucks how much plastic trash is floating throughout the ocean. I've been doing pretty well avoiding having to use single-use plastics. I'd like to go zero-waste at some point. Anyway, I'm stoked for you about the clearing your head and getting to those tre flips. Have fun out there!!!

[codymacfan]

I got a promotion and pay raise a few months ago, but ever since I started the new, heavier work load I’ve pretty much hated it. Lost all my motivation to do it well.