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Other than being be-rashed, my daughter is completely fine, which is slightly annoying! I’d just feel really shitty if she developed a temp while I was out or something like that. Dog fine too - other than being an idiot.

Well this ones cancelled now anyway 😭
My youngest has come out in a rash all over and my dog just bust his paw open, which all feels a bit unfair to leave for the babysitter (wife currently away on work).

I’ll be playing some 45s at home and drinking wine on my own…

East Bristol mengers:
I'm doing another bit of Djing tomorrow. Same place - The All Inn, Fishponds, Bristol.

used to order stuff from Rollersnakes in the 90s over the phone

I got an STM complete from them when I first got in to skating 'properly' rather than just cruising around. I remember it being pretty decent. Although in retrospect, the Planet Earth board with pink Kryptonics Slammer wheels I had before was pretty nice, just totally unfashionable by then :-)

Yes it is hauntingly beautiful, isn’t it?

Remind me of this. Whitney Houston singing in all 12 keys at once

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HWJyOJUSNb8

I was expecting it to be dreadful but it wasn't!

-spends half my annual earnings on Turkish psych-

One could argue that listening to records at home constitutes preparation work vital for Djing. In the same way that, while I don't get paid for looking up how to do something in After Effects on YouTube that I promised a client I already knew how to do, but it's a vital part of my work development

Yes, I guess it's not like my returns are itemised. My overall expenses are pretty low on average I'd say.

Ah yes, I forgot there was a thread for this!

I have a feeling it’s small enough to be fine. I don’t have huge expenses so my ratios are fine in that respect.

@andyfallsoff I think the main thing that makes me unsure is that DJing is only a tiny part of my income, and I’d pretty much be spending as much on records as I’d be making from them.

Freelancey tax question:
I'm a freelance designer. I also do the odd bit of Djing here and there. The places I DJ at require me to invoice them, which im doing through my usual invoice system, for convenience. It's not that much per month and I can't see it making much of a difference to my tax bill, but I did wonder if I could be cheeky and count records as a work expense. Should I ideally be separating these two lines of work if I wanted to do that (not worth it) or can I get away with it?

Excited for these to arrive a lot earlier than I expected. Pretty decent print quality and the designs all translated well for the most part (2 illustrations I’d lighten up a bit if I ever printed again). Looking forward to playing it!

Love the first one. Some really nice layering

Cheers, it was fun. Not that busy, but then it was mid-week. Think they want me in on a Friday next time.

Ha! It's a card-based game. I didn't actually make up the mechanics of the game - that already existed. What ive done is to sort of transpose the game mechanics on to a completely new setting.

here's the original game

I've just sent it to print this morning, but I think it might take about a month to get back to me apparently

I’m going to get one set made up for myself - I found somewhere that will print me a set (108 cards) for about £30 which seems decent. If anyone’s keen, I’d be up for getting further sets printed up, but I’d want to see a printed set first.

I’ve had this project that I’ve been tinkering with for ages - I’ve actually found myself fairly close to finishing it! My wife’s away for work this week so I’ve decided to spend post kids bedtime evenings getting stuck in to the remaining illustrations I need to have this finished. Then I’ll send it to the printers before I decide I want to faff around with anything or re-do any drawings!

Basically I’ve re-themed the card game ‘Machi Koru’ from the ground up. The original game is a sort of sim city style, manage resources to build a city. My version has you stranded on a strange island with mysterious monoliths and stuff.

Lol

Lewis de baron?

I've got a few bits of 60s/70s Taiwanese, Indonesian and Malaysian stuff that I want to play out, but all seem to have the following in common: a given LP will have several utter heat rocks on it, but when the vocals kick in, they all drop the instrumentation lower in the mix. It means when played out, its veeerrry vocal heavy and kind of doesn't work. Which is a shame, due to aforementioned otherwise heat rock status.

This Qing Shan track is a good example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxqGCaKvOgE

Yeah, I always used to get the cheapest bearings I could. Since starting skating again as an adult and getting some Bones Reds, I realised how much of a difference it makes getting even basic good bearings.

They’re fairly easy to clean them without that bones kit. Especially if it’s just one. I guess whether it’s worth cleaning or replacing depends on how good the bearing is and how knackered it is.

I’ve used rubbing alcohol to clean and sewing machine oil to lubricate, with good results.

Denton & Cook did some pretty fun themes back in the day.

Lovely stuff. followed