Thread: mid life crisis.

Originally Posted by astasinim

This week I have mostly been Angus young.

After plying bass for 20 years, I'm more the Malc in the band. Solos are a bit of an enigma.And wtf was the inventor the guitar thinking when he decided to put a B string in there instead of a C? Gets me every time.

I might work on a BCC (Little Secret seems easy enough) solo one of these days after get some feeling back into my fingertips.

^ Is this Air guitar or karaoke?

The air guitar would probably sound better.

Originally Posted by astasinim

I`ve only been playing a fraction of the time you have, and I`m more of legend in my own lunch time than anything else. One day though, one day.

Having no formal training has left me kind of limited, so my solos are made up of 3 fingers, basically using the scales. Still, I sound bloody amazing in my head.

It's all good. Most rock gods had no formal training, so I wouldn't worry too much.

Apart from a brief few months laying with a blues band in Udon, I've not really played for about 12 years. Having the right gear helps no end. Playing Sabbath or AD/Dc on my old acoustic just doesn't inspire me anywhere near as much.

This little amp is amazing. The sounds are so much better than I ever thought possible. It even links to Cubase (a copy is included). The last time I used that was when I had my own studio and ran it on an old Atari ST because PCs were not up to the task then.

Originally Posted by RumpyPumpy

Originally Posted by Breny

Hey, if your going to have a midlife crisis then read this.

A guy who used to live near me in Trat ( we shall call him Sean, as that was his name ) thought that he could smuggle eggs, yes eggs from Trat into Cambo.
His plan was to sell them on at a profit and then use the money he made from that venture to buy some Jade from Burma!!
He didn't even get through the border before a lot of the eggs had broken and flies were swarming around his Hi-so Toyota. In the end he ended up giving the rest away to local residents of the estate we lived on. He was called eggman after that. Nice guy he was only 37 at the time.

if that is your idea of a midlife crisis...well

I know its not the most adventurous thing to do, But this was at the time of the SARS outbreak and smuggling eggs was a serious no-no, Big fine/ jail. I kid you not.

Originally Posted by JPPR2

Mid life crisis is such a nonsense label. It is a term made up by shrinks to be able to write books and medical journals and then get you into the office and make money on you. Easier to sell if it sounds like a disease.

This from the guy who recently, well within the past 2 years or so got divorced, quit his job, moved to Thailand, toured, got a Thai G/F, went back to America, never getting married again, now getting nationalized citizenship for his Thai G/F, working again and thinking of spending the rest of his life commuting between Lampang and the Silicone Valley.

Now, that's rich. I'm LMAO over this post JP.

Not bad, but you need to really go on a binder for a true MLC.

My first two mistakes were simply mistakes, the third one was a full on Mid-Life Crisis. 15 years after the exit from number two mistake. Its a great ride and hardly any male I know escapes from one. You may yet be the exception?

Originally Posted by ltnt

Originally Posted by JPPR2

Mid life crisis is such a nonsense label. It is a term made up by shrinks to be able to write books and medical journals and then get you into the office and make money on you. Easier to sell if it sounds like a disease.

This from the guy who recently, well within the past 2 years or so got divorced, quit his job, moved to Thailand, toured, got a Thai G/F, went back to America, never getting married again, now getting nationalized citizenship for his Thai G/F, working again and thinking of spending the rest of his life commuting between Lampang and the Silicone Valley.

Now, that's rich. I'm LMAO over this post JP.

Not bad, but you need to really go on a binder for a true MLC.

My first two mistakes were simply mistakes, the third one was a full on Mid-Life Crisis. 15 years after the exit from number two mistake. Its a great ride and hardly any male I know escapes from one. You may yet be the exception?

Exception to what? a Midlife Crisis, are you kidding me???? If you knew me as my long time friends do, what I am doing is normal JP.

That term Mid Life Crisis makes me laugh. Marketing 101. I hear there are hundreds and hundreds of books to label you. Why they even had meds and counseling for it. Some need that to be able to justify it I suppose. This way they can "heal" or at minimum take anti depressants for the rest of their lives because of it. HAHAHA

In fairness to you, you only know me from my posts and the last 2 years. I never woke up and looked in the mirror like all the books probably depict and said "OMG..I'm old, fat, never saw anything, married to a fat ugly wife and I need a change, sold my house in suburbia USA, bought a red Corvette, dyed my hair or got a toupee , went out and added some tribal tattoo's, felt the need to date girls 30 to 40 years younger then me, packed up a few pictures and said OK here I come I am going to live on an island or buy a farm in a different country" ...... I don't panic over anything therefore no crisis.

For some clarification I was in TL for 5, first 3 on business. Everything I have done in my life has been reasonably calculated, nothing I do is whimsical, thus no regrets(Well I have 2, I should have bought Apple and Google stock when it was around $30 . Anyway my life has been nothing but change since about 17. I have lived in many places, worked for quite a few companies and traveled to a lot of countries. So to make any change for me is not about a crisis, its simply to do what I want and try something new. I am clearly an adrenaline junky and enjoy the challenges. I have been divorced over 6 years. My Ex wife is quite beautiful and very successful but she became very materialistic, shallow, felt entitled, was bossy and was always telling me to grow up. We were just on different life plans. She wanted bigger houses and fancier cars and I wanted to move around and see more. 20 years was a good run. An opportunity to take a Program Manager/Ops manager job in Thailand shortly after we separated sounded interesting. I had done that in SZ China for a spell a few years prior so I said "why not". I have enjoyed traveling around SEA under a companies umbrella. After seeing Thailand I thought I might want to hang out for awhile. My recent endeavor with my GF is great and I am enjoying it. Life is simply fun to me. As for bouncing back and forth between Lampang and Silicon Valley, it seems like a nice plan. Use Lampang as home base to go see other places on that side of the planet and same back here. I am not trapped and having those options are simply awesome.

Anyway sorry to hear you lived through a few but you are the one who labeled yourself and believe what you went through was a crisis.....Maybe some people do.

^ No defense from me. Not a crisis label simply the changes we go through while growing up.

Don't get into a fit over the joking about peoples different approaches to living over the course of their lives. You certainly are serious as much as you protest against such.

If you say you didn't go through a Mid-life Crisis then I'll take your word for it JP. I have a different perception of what you've just described and in my book it fits right in with the threads topic.

No one said you were trapped or that you weren't capable of making rational decisions or shopping for mango's. What has been said are the stories as you related them here on TD. To bad we all are not so stable in your opinion.

Suggest sometimes we need to use some introspection along with realizing the truth of our past actions. That's the Royal "We."

Originally Posted by JPPR2

Originally Posted by ltnt

Originally Posted by JPPR2

Mid life crisis is such a nonsense label. It is a term made up by shrinks to be able to write books and medical journals and then get you into the office and make money on you. Easier to sell if it sounds like a disease.

This from the guy who recently, well within the past 2 years or so got divorced, quit his job, moved to Thailand, toured, got a Thai G/F, went back to America, never getting married again, now getting nationalized citizenship for his Thai G/F, working again and thinking of spending the rest of his life commuting between Lampang and the Silicone Valley.

Now, that's rich. I'm LMAO over this post JP.

Not bad, but you need to really go on a binder for a true MLC.

My first two mistakes were simply mistakes, the third one was a full on Mid-Life Crisis. 15 years after the exit from number two mistake. Its a great ride and hardly any male I know escapes from one. You may yet be the exception?

Exception to what? a Midlife Crisis, are you kidding me???? If you knew me as my long time friends do, what I am doing is normal JP.

That term Mid Life Crisis makes me laugh. Marketing 101. I hear there are hundreds and hundreds of books to label you. Why they even had meds and counseling for it. Some need that to be able to justify it I suppose. This way they can "heal" or at minimum take anti depressants for the rest of their lives because of it. HAHAHA

In fairness to you, you only know me from my posts and the last 2 years. I never woke up and looked in the mirror like all the books probably depict and said "OMG..I'm old, fat, never saw anything, married to a fat ugly wife and I need a change, sold my house in suburbia USA, bought a red Corvette, dyed my hair or got a toupee , went out and added some tribal tattoo's, felt the need to date girls 30 to 40 years younger then me, packed up a few pictures and said OK here I come I am going to live on an island or buy a farm in a different country" ...... I don't panic over anything therefore no crisis.

For some clarification I was in TL for 5, first 3 on business. Everything I have done in my life has been reasonably calculated, nothing I do is whimsical, thus no regrets(Well I have 2, I should have bought Apple and Google stock when it was around $30 . Anyway my life has been nothing but change since about 17. I have lived in many places, worked for quite a few companies and traveled to a lot of countries. So to make any change for me is not about a crisis, its simply to do what I want and try something new. I am clearly an adrenaline junky and enjoy the challenges. I have been divorced over 6 years. My Ex wife is quite beautiful and very successful but she became very materialistic, shallow, felt entitled, was bossy and was always telling me to grow up. We were just on different life plans. She wanted bigger houses and fancier cars and I wanted to move around and see more. 20 years was a good run. An opportunity to take a Program Manager/Ops manager job in Thailand shortly after we separated sounded interesting. I had done that in SZ China for a spell a few years prior so I said "why not". I have enjoyed traveling around SEA under a companies umbrella. After seeing Thailand I thought I might want to hang out for awhile. My recent endeavor with my GF is great and I am enjoying it. Life is simply fun to me. As for bouncing back and forth between Lampang and Silicon Valley, it seems like a nice plan. Use Lampang as home base to go see other places on that side of the planet and same back here. I am not trapped and having those options are simply awesome.

Anyway sorry to hear you lived through a few but you are the one who labeled yourself and believe what you went through was a crisis.....Maybe some people do.

Think you are having one now.

Originally Posted by ltnt

Suggest sometimes we need to use some introspection along with realizing the truth of our past actions. That's the Royal "We."

Its all good. I just have this personal peeve that people like to labeling themselves for the sake of justification. People are people. We all make changes that suit ourselves and what we want out of life. I just think far to many buy marketing, medical hype hence why the world has become a bunch of drugged up people on some sort of anti depressant, mood altering dependency.

A crisis (from the Greek κρίσις - krisis;[1] plural: "crises"; adjectival form: "critical") is any event that is, or expected to lead to, an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, community or whole society. Crises are deemed to be negative changes in the security, economic, political, societal or environmental affairs, especially when they occur abruptly, with little or no warning

^Is this what really happens at Mid life?

Anyway I said my bit about it. I will move on....

"In the fullness of time,
it's the only return that you expect."

And then you die. Is it the end or just the beginning again?

^
Don't have a family do ya.

Don't fuck around with a mid life crisis, if you are going to do it, do it well.

Show it off, if you have it to show off that is.

But sadly most will just slip off the edge, they run away from their life and then after a year or 2 it all comes to an abrupt halt. Then you realise what a loser you have been and join TD and whine too much.

yes, why do you do that?

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

^
Don't have a family do ya.

No wife, no kids, not even a dog.

Originally Posted by Fabian

I thought about buying a sports car when I turn 40 next month but a guitar could help too. Haven't played for ages.

I've got most of the Restless & Wild album sorted - I ROCK!