HonkyTonkWoman

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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • So many surprises with a boat… I learned how to drive, launch, & dock on an outboard piss yellow Grady White. Switched to inboard/outboard & relearn it all; it was a completely different steering experience.

    We also watched some idiots blow up their boat because they didn’t maintain it. Fuel leaked, fumes built in the engine cavity, & when the driver went to crank it…. kaboom.

    Luckily the boat was already in the water, drifting back away from the dock, & the driver hadn’t let passengers onboard yet.

    To my knowledge, driver survived, but was badly injured.

    Not sharing this to scare off OP, boats are awesome when you know what you’re doing.




  • And if it’s nature that catches your interest, in addition to walking, you could follow a live stream of some animal you may or may not care about.

    I got into watching an Osprey hatch her eggs on a stream. Didn’t even know about the birds until I started, but the hook set quickly.

    Watched that feed for weeks, checking to see who’s been eating, who’s been pooping, & who’s still sleeping. Pretty satisfying by the time the chicks left the nest.







  • You should submit voice samples to casting agencies that land voice over talent for commercials, and other media formats.

    You don’t need an agent or anything of the sort to get started, just a decent sample of your vocal work.

    Get it submitted wherever you can, you’ll never know what might come of it.

    I was a post production supervisor in Los Angeles for a bit. I worked with VO talent, many of whom had entirely separate careers.

    One guy was a bus operator & rode his bus to the studio after shift change. He was awesome.






  • My mom & her brothers were arguing over family silverware. The older of my two uncles just took the silverware case & disappeared with it.

    That year for Christmas, every immediate family received a custom made ring made from the melted silverware.

    They’re not anything valuable. They look handmade & some of the pieces were outright ugly, but it worked.

    We all still have that silverware & it means a lot to all of us.

    To OP, completely understand you might not want jewelry made from a nazi knife, but maybe there’s an option to do something worthwhile while that melted metal, rather than just scrapping it?

    If nothing else, you could encase a copy of mein kampf in the metal & have a fancy ass doorstop you can kick around.

    “Is that a brick of silver holding your door open?”

    “Nope. It’s a deactivated copy of that hitler book.”