Please no doomer responses.
I’ve been playing my guitar a fair bit. Relearning the solo dem another brick in the wall pt 2 because I never learned it right whe I was in high school and really wanna get that 5 fret bend down right. Havent learned a solo in a while, pretty easy reintro to solos.
Been getting my old anet 8 3d printer working again for a project for my girlfriend. Pretty fun iterativeprocess.
Also fucking around with retro games on an old pi I had sitting around. Contra hard corps is hella fun.
So what do you like doing? What have you been having fun with? What do you like?
I’ve been acquiring pins and patches and such for my battle jacket
These are both sort of in-progress pics (as if a battle jacket is ever truly finished,) I’ve added a couple more band patches to the front and finished adding the pyramid studs around the bottom edge, and the fish wasn’t sewn on for that pic of the back but is now
It’s at a place where I’m pretty happy with it now, but still on the lookout for more things to add to it.
Man, every last one of those makes me want to give you a high five. Nicely done!
Yah but how many pieces of “flare” do you have lol
If we define flair as just pins & buttons
And it didn’t make it’s way into this picture but I do have a 8th pin I just recently found in a box of stuff that’s a Warhammer 40k space marine helmet
And somewhere I have a pin from my local orchestra thats going on there if/when I remember where I put the damn thing
So 8, hopefully soon to be 9
And if you want to count all those little black & white pyramid studs, there’s about 200 of them
That is awesome! I love it and thanks for sharing. You could add the sewing merit badge on there if you got that when you were in scouts! I too also received eagle and hate where the scouts ended up after all these years. Anyways, cheers!
Overall, I thought scouts were on a pretty good trajectory, not that there wasn’t plenty of room for improvement, but allowing girls and lgbtq people to participate were solid moves
They still need more accountability for the child abuse issues, but that’s probably as much a failing on our laws and policing as it is on the scout organization
And I wish their ties to organizations like the military and NRA weren’t as strong.
It’s kind of hard to have youth shooting sports without working with the NRA though, since they’re the main organization that will train RSOs and such, and without that training I’m pretty sure there’s no way in their hell lawyers and insurance companies would sign off of it. And I do, overall, support that part of the program.
But really it’s the military ties that I don’t like, since their support and resources were what Trump/Hegseth were able to use as leverage against them.
Would also really like them to ditch the religion requirement as well
Yah these two right here, you hit the nail on the head, I haven’t been involved since the 90’s but yah, elegantly put. Not sure where they go from here though…i wonder if the military culture and trump coziness dies with an administration change or if just ends up being another pipeline for young kids to get funneled into the military. I also remember that religion was optional. I did the Ad Altare Dei program, but I don’t remember it being mandatory but that was also several decades ago lol.
AFAIK, the religious awards have always been optional. I think only one guy in my troop ever bothered to earn it. Officially as long as you’re willing to say you believe in some sort of higher power that satisfies their religious requirement, but some troops can end up being pretty Bible-thumpy
Unfortunately they’ve always been pretty cozy with the military, being an eagle scout gets you a little bit of a rank or pay bump or something if you enlist, and they lend the scouts some equipment and manpower when needed for big events like the jamboree, so that pipeline has already kind of existed for a long time and it’s sort of on-line with what Baden-Powell Intended the scout movement to be- a tool to help prepare kids for military service.
But of course that’s not really what I took away from scouting, and it just doesn’t really feel like what it should be about in today’s world to me, so I wouldn’t mind seeing that relationship falling apart.
Yah good points, I guess it all depends on where you are physically at in scouting…location makes a difference. I must of been childishly naive at the time as I never put two and two together to connect the dots on the military pipeline…the more I think about it though, it makes sense.
Ahhhh I love it!! The frog lapel pin is very cute - what’s on the other lapel? I can’t quite make it out.
The other one is a flying spaghetti monster
Oh hell yeah, that’s cool.
Is that a Streetlight Manifesto patch?
It is!
Nice! I think I still have a few shirts and hoodies I bought from some of their shows I went to around 2008-2012.
I remember we went to one of their shows at the Fuel Coffee House in Orlando. We had been to some shows before, so we knew what their RV looked like. After the show, there was a parking spot open by it, so we moved our car there and hung out while my friend played their songs on his acoustic.
After a few hours, Chris, Conti, Mike, and Dan came out of the venue and walked over to their RV. On their way over, they heard us playing, so they gave us some swag and a signed poster.
We wanted to wait around for TK, but we also didn’t want to be “those guys” so we headed home.
Cool band. Good times.
Nice, I’ve seen them a good handful of times around Philly, New York, and Jersey, always a great show.
It’s been a few years since I last saw them, before I started putting this vest together so I ended up ordering the patch off their website. They threw in a note apologizing for shipping costs being so high and a couple stickers to make up for it.
Here’s to hoping they finish up that new album soon (and if you weren’t aware they dropped about half of it a couple months ago)