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Reminds me of Uncle Bob and his big cLock.

As opposed to crock with an R? 🤔

Someday the cockroaches will become extinct, leaving the earth to Keith... 😆

Dang Kenny! I know my hours are completely whacked, but what are you doing up at 4:20am??! 😮

The positive: BackBlaze was awesome! 🙂👍

Ooo... Here's a fun association! 😁

After having to put my life into storage units back in 2009, when I could finally take some of my music gear out to use it I couldn't find my Waves bundles (Gold, Diamond, Restoration, etc.) and thought they had been stolen. Well, after all of the recent "fun," I either gave away, sent to the dump or brought home to the garage everything I had that was stuffed in my final 10' x 10' storage unit (we're talking crammed floor to ceiling!). I was just going through one of the boxes with family heirlooms in it and guess what I found! Yep. My Waves boxes. Now, back in 2006, I had gone to a Waves demonstration at a local Guitar Center and ended up spending a fortune for the Diamond upgrade (with Restoration) and one of these: Unfortunately, the accelerator ended up in a bad eBay auction (where I learned my lesson about needing a reserve) and only sold for $340 back in 2009! 😢 Anyway, my Diamond upgrade is still shrink-wrapped and sporting a price on the label of $1,650!!! 😲 So, I just got off the phone with Waves and found out that, yes! I can sell my licenses (called an "ownership transfer"), but the normal prices for everything I have now totals around $730... Oh, but the Diamond upgrade is currently on sale for $180 less, so everything is now worth $550 max. Yay. 🙄 But wait! It gets even better! I have version 3 so, to upgrade everything to the current version 13 (a requirement to allow me to transfer the ownership), I'd have to pay $125.91 to get their upgrade/renewal service and THEN, if I did transfer ownership, they'll charge a transfer fee equivalent to 5% of the original retail price or $150 max (which is what I would have to pay). This means I need to come up with over $275 BEFORE even trying to sell these - and that's assuming they'll even sell right now (most of my stuff isn't getting any responses). 😕 Hmm, did I forget to mention that just last Friday my replacement 10 TB hard drive decided to fail? Evidently, I was only provided a 90-day warranty when I bought it last August, so I'm screwed there. I spent most of Friday, all of the weekend and part of Monday (yesterday) restoring the most important files... Maybe it's time to just give everything away and become a Monk... 🤔

Didn't we just do all of this last year??! 🤔 😁👍

To be fair, he probably didn't say which day... 🤔 😜

Here's the eBay link should anyone be interested or know someone who is: https://www.ebay.com/itm/284626545015 (I'll cut a deal if someone here buys it! 🙂 )

Or, as the tourists around here call it, the William Met! (Yes, it's pronounced the Will Lam It.)

Ooo!!! I know! I'll tell him it's actually a six-string bass tuned to a higher register and comes with a bunch of plug-ins that he doesn't already have! 😁

What about burple? (The color of a belch!) 😁

Can't see that video, but know the song well!

It was probably her standard deviation. 😜

I'm guessing YOU didn't have 427 Lego kits, a full-house building/plumbing/road infrastructure to build (and ADHD)! 😆

Wait... NOW you tell us??? I should have learned that over 50 years ago!!! 😮 😜

Is Pat the pink part? 🤔 😜

Good point! If it was a bass I could probably put it on Bapuslist, ya? 😁 Well, it IS on eBay too... Not sure where else to try yet.

*Sigh...* Ok, I'm busted! 😕 Which I guess makes sense since I'm also broke... Yep. I'm selling one of my custom guitars (the one in my avatar) to pay the back-rent I owe and survive for a few months until the complete BS going on in the world hopefully blows over. The fires that wiped out five towns in Oregon and over 200 days of rioting along with the Draconian idiocy basically took out most of our clients (our main business was IT Consultancy). One client burned to the ground, several were heavily damaged by the BLM/Antifa riots (for some, they couldn't get clients to go downtown because it wasn't safe and that included some of the top restaurants), and others had to pretty much shutter due to the moronic restrictions. I picked up a couple of side-jobs, but now those are either gone or have nothing left for any employee to do. Unfortunately, it's tough selling anything right now. I've had a lot of other items up for sale, but they either don't move or I have to almost give them away (I've literally given away well over $10k worth of stuff when I had to empty my storage unit!). I've got a LOT of music-related books that are going up for sale soon (music theory, instrument learning, song theory, audio recording, mixing, studio design and a bunch of tab books). I'd really love to sell the whole lot at once, but I'm all ears for the best way to move 'em! The Government has screwed me nine ways from Sunday (instead of getting $430 back on last year's taxes they claimed I owed $770 which I had to pay first before I can fight it, then they dorked up my unemployment claim which they are STILL trying to get straightened out so I've received ZERO from that, plus I was literally been told at some interviews that I am too over-qualified, too old and, get this, "not dark enough" while trying to just get basic work - that last one actually came from Home Depot "off the record" of course! 🤬). In the meantime, I've done a lot of training and I'm writing a full-featured Windows program (which includes an SQL Server database with over 40 tables) that will help me and my business partner trade in the market should THAT ever get back to moving! YAY LIFE! 🙄

1,000 posts??! Wow, you sure must be a yappy person! 😁 (Between three forums I'm well over 100,000... I wonder where I can get a life... eBay maybe? 🤔)