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droneseco · 4 years ago

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Keychron Q1 Wired 75% Mechanical Keyboard Review: The Hotswap Mechanical Keyboard for Perfectionists

Keychron Q1

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An excellent keyboard by any standard.

Key Features

Tenkeyless

All metal construction

QMK and VIA compatibility

Gasket-mounted plate

Specifications

Brand: Keychron

Wireless: No

Backlight: RGB SMD

Media Controls: Yes

Num Pad: No, TKL

Switch Type: Gateron Phantom

Replaceable Keys: Modular hotswap

Pros

Stable and solid typing

Outstanding build quality

Ultra heavy base

Programmable keys and backlight

Cons

Expensive

Not travel friendly

Not wireless

Extremely thick

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As a veteran keyboard builder, I love the $169 Keychron Q1 75% ten-keyless (TKL) keyboard. Its near-perfect typing experience dominates the competition. While it's not right for those who need ergonomics and Bluetooth, it's perfect for typists who don't need a ten-key keypad.

Is the Keychron Q1 Mechanical Keyboard Right for You?

While wowing me with its marvelous and muted typing experience, the Q1 isn't without flaw.

If you're looking for the heaviest 75%, modular, hot-swap keyboard, it's the best in its class. But for those of you looking for ergonomics or wireless, there are more suitable options. A strong candidate that covers ergonomics and wireless is the Kinesis Freestyle2, a split mechanical keyboard.

Who Are Keychron?

Before I get into the pros and cons, you might want to know more about the company behind the Q1. Keychron is a newcomer to the mech market with a reputation for quality. Its first designs focused on products for the Mac. But it's since moved on to building general-use keyboards.

The Keychron Q1 is their newest flagship product, this time catering to the high-end, enthusiast market. Their selling point here isn't just hotswap sockets. Keychron has distinguished itself from the competition with an ultra-heavy case. To my knowledge, this is one of the heaviest 75-key keyboards ever made and probably one of the most gravity-challenged keyboards of 2021, period.

Although gasket-mounted plates, and other typist-oriented features, appear in multiple keyboards, such as the Mojo68, the Rama Works Kara, and the Ikki68 Aurora, I haven't seen them paired with heavier framed designs. Considering that gaskets reduce the shock of bottoming out, I'm surprised to not see them used with keyboards designed for stability. Potentially a heavy case, gasket mounts, and Poron could mean the triple crown for a stable typing platform. To date, no keyboard combines those three components.

Hardware Specifications

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Dimensions: 145 x 327.5 x 21.6 mm

Weight: ~1,600 grams

Plate: 6063 Aluminum

Switch type: Barebones or Gateron Phantom Red, Phantom Blue, Phantom Brown

Ports: USB Type-C (USB-C)

Case material: 6063 Aluminum

Case colors: Carbon Black, Space Gray, Navy Blue

Sockets: Kailh Hotswap

Keycaps: Double-shot ABS, top-key legends

Cable: Black, detachable, braided, coiled USB-C

Extras: Keycap puller, switch puller, extra "Poron" material, additional keys for macOS, optional rotary encoder

Modular Hotswap Sockets and Gateron Phantom Switches

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Keychron offers three default keycaps to go with the latest Gateron Phantom series switches. To be honest, I can't tell the difference between the Phantom series and the Ink series (I reviewed the Ink series in 2020). Both have the same weights, actuation curves, and colored transparent switch housings. A more relevant comparison would be to compare regular 2021 Gaterons to the Phantom switches. In my initial testing, the difference seems to be the Phantoms are smoother. My guess is that Gateron used lower friction plastic or lubricant.

Keychron Q1 Teardown

A teardown of the Q1 reveals several innovative design features. My favorite is the ability to customize the specific level of shock absorption of the keyboard. But aside from that, there are three other components that Keychron used to great effect.

Poron Gasket-Mounted Plate

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Gasket-mounted plate designs float the plate, PCB, and switches on top of a series of Poron-foam gaskets. Whenever you type, the gasket depresses, softening each keypress. Typing hard enough causes the entire plate to drop a millimeter or two. The effect causes a reduction in the harshness of bottoming a key out. Although the keycaps are not silenced, gaskets also chop down on typing sounds. That's because a special advantage of Poron over other kinds of foam is that it exhibits extreme energy muffling properties.

However, the substance that Keychron refers to as Poron looks and feels exactly like neoprene. I'm not sure whether Keychron used Poron on the inter. Then there's a denser layer of a kind of urethane foam that also appears to be a Poron layer. This layer pads the interior of the aluminum case.

Keychron included extra Poron in its kit. If you want, you can increase the amount of Poron between the plate and the base. However, I found that this actually increased the sensation of bottoming out of keys. After some experimentation, I found that fewer pieces of Poron improve the comfort of hard key presses.

Screw-In Stabilizers Vs. Plate-Mounted Stabilizers

The biggest source of rattle and noise production on a keyboard is oftentimes the space bar. Different keyboard stabilizer types cause different kinds of problems though. Costar stabilizers are easier to remove but suffer from stability and noise issues. Cherry stabilizers produce less rattle but are difficult to service. Screw-in stabilizers offer the best of both. They produce less noise, are super stable, and aren't difficult to service.

Typing on the Q1's space bar feels, to overuse a word, solid. While screw-in stabilizers demonstrate a tremendous amount of side-to-side wiggle, the opposite is true of their typing stability. They are enormously stable, thanks to the fact that they are literally screwed into the motherboard. I suspect, though, that space bar removal is a big advantage here. It appears that the stabilizer's play allows for space bar removal from extreme angles. So you can pull it without the risk of damage to the keycap. I can't help but feel that screw-in stabilizers are the future of high-end keyboard design.

Poron Layer

Poron looks and feels like neoprene on first inspection. But pushing my finger into the material reveals the difference: Poron seems more durable and resistant compared to neoprene. Rather than yielding to touch as neoprene would, Poron feels almost solid and inflexible. I've read that there are different formulations of Poron, some offering consistency equivalent to neoprene.

The functional use of Poron on the base seems to further stabilize typing. I can't imagine there's a more stable typing machine out there.

Thick Aluminum Base

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Another interesting feature Keychron's use of a weighted aluminum base. The base by itself weighs in at 872 grams, which is only 94 grams less than my steel-plate Varmilo VB87M 87-key keyboard. In other words, the base alone weighs more than a larger, steel-plated keyboard. The full keyboard weighs 1,623 grams, almost double my Varmilo.

The extremely heavy base makes for a stable, solid typing experience. Personally, I dislike the feel of metal-plate keyboards for touch typing. Because aluminum and steel are such great conductors of vibrations, you tend to feel on your other fingers whenever you strike a keycap. However, Keychron's approach here was to dampen each keypress while maintaining the solidity of a metal plate. The end result is solid and stable typing.

Lots of Customization Options

Keychron includes customization options for the case and switches. In future, two bare-bones models will be made: ISO and ANSI. At launch, though, only the case color and switches are customizable. The case colors include black, dark blue, and gray. As mentioned earlier, the switch options are a bit more interesting as they cover Gateron's latest switches: Phantom Red, Phantom Blue, and Phantom Brown.

QMK/VIA Support

The ultimate customization option is the ability to reprogram the keyboard from top to bottom. QMK or VIA can do just that, although it requires understanding how to flash your keyboard with firmware. It's not hard but there's a slight learning curve.

While I don't use VIA and have no familiarity with it, I am familiar with QMK. It's not hard to use, particularly if you're already familiar with flash ATMega32 processors. Those of you who have unlocked the bootloader of an Ender 3 will know what I mean.

But for those who do like to create their own custom layouts and color schemes, Keychron published their Q1 QMK source code on GitHub. The broad compatibility with QMK is probably because it uses an ATMega32 microchip, which is one of the most common processors used on QMK-supported keyboards. It's also commonly seen on 3D printers and other consumer electronics.

Backlighting and Animation Effects

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The animation effects are about what you would expect on a high-end keyboard. The Q1 uses RGB SMDs instead of LEDs so there's a tremendous amount of color variation, like on all RBG backlit keyboard. However, it's worth noting that can set custom colors using QMK Configurator, so if you need a particular shade, that's possible. On top of that, there are numerous animations, including several multi-hued, rainbow-like variations.

While the backlight looks good, Keychron's standout feature is how they combined front-facing lighting with transparent switch housings. The combination allows for more intense animation effects, since the light is visible from the portion of the keyboard that faces the typist. However, while this is an interesting visual, I'd have preferred shine-through keycaps with front-printed lettering.

What's Not Good?

While great, not everything is perfect with the Keychron Q1.

No Function Layer Markings

Something I found irritating on the Q1: there are nonfunction layer markings on the keycaps. Because there's no documentation, this led to a lot of guesswork as to how to control backlights.

Expensive For a Keyboard in This Class

While $169 isn't the most expensive 75% keyboard, it's also a fair bit more expensive than the competition in this particular market segment. Razer, for example, sells a wired 75% for under $100. And while Razer's 75% isn't nearly as nice, $69 is enough to buy another low-end mechanical keyboard, such as the Vissles V84.

Front-Facing Lighting Paired with Top-Printed Legends

LED lighting scheme is designed for front-lit shine through keycaps.

That's partly by design as the keycaps aren't shine-through. The goal was to use a semi-transparent switch housing to allow for various visual effects.

No Capslock Status Indicator

Most keyboards include some kind of indicator that capslock is turned on. The Q1 doesn't provide any hint that you might be accidentally yelling at your friends and family over email.

The Future Will Mean Lower Prices

Gasket-mounted plates, screw-in stabilizers, and dampening material like silicone and Poron are the future. While the Keychron might seem like a good deal today at $169, next year there will be similar options for less money.

Should You Buy the Keychron Q1?

If you're looking for a high-end typist's keyboard, the Keychron Q1 beats the keycaps off the overpriced Razer BlackWidow. But if you want an ergonomic or wireless keyboard, look elsewhere.

For those looking for a low-cost hot-swap alternative, I suggest the Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard. The GMMK offers the same modular hot-swap design with a focus on entry-level keyboard enthusiasts.

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electric-segfault · 7 years ago

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I Love Rust

By that I mean Rust the programming language, not Rust the videogame; sorry to anyone coming here thinking this post was about that.

I've been trying to learn Rust the past few months, and I think I'm finally getting a grasp of it---at least to some extent---and as of late, I feel like the language has started to click into place for me.

For those who don't know, I have a pretty diverse theoretical background in programming. In 2012 I learned C# at a "profession academy", in 2013 I learned Scala and Haskell out of my own curiosity, in 2014 I learned ANSI C (aka C89) as part of an imperative programming course at the university, and in 2017 I dabbled with some C++ as part of an embedded programming project.

In a sense, my interests have always been a mix of procedural and functional code (functional in the sense of FP, not in the sense that the code works). When I write C#, I go out of my way to make the code as functional as possible, relying heavily on delegates (C#'s closures) and Linq to bend the various collection types to my will. One could argue that this functional approach to C# comes as a result of my intense love for Scala, which marries FP with OOP in an interesting natural way.

In comes Rust. I would mostly describe the language as a weird merger between C++ and Scala, in fact, I'm surprised more people don't make the syntactic connection between the languages; take this example:

Scala

def safeDivide(a: Double, b: Double): Option[Double] = { return if(b != 0) Some(a / b) else None }

Rust

fn safe_divide(a: f64, b: f64) -> Option<f64> { if b != 0.0 { Some(a / b) } else { None } }

Apart from the different name for a 64-bit floating point number, and the explicit curly braces in if-statements, the languages are damn near identical in a lot of ways, even down to their use of Associated Types (called Abstract Types in Scala).

It is however important to note that Rust---unlike Scala---is not object oriented, even though it does use a few OOP ideas, the language itself is almost entirely procedural + functional, whereas Scala is object-oriented + functional.

Rust has no classes and no inheritance, but does instead have composition through traits, which are interface-like constructs with a few more built-in features. Traits let you extend existing types at will, and they even let you implement default behaviour similar to abstract classes.

The weird thing is that I feel at home in Rust---just like I do in Scala. Even though Rust is all about explicit programming, foregoing implicit conversions in favour of having the user type everything out, where Scala is quite literally the opposite, I still feel at home. It has that feeling of C's low-levelness which I actually really like. It also has all the cool constructs I love from Haskell. But unlike Haskell---as much as I love it---I feel like I actually get work done in it. It feels like a workhorse language, just like the C family of languages.

Just the other day I implemented a word generator for a constructed language I'm making, which was capable of taking in a sequence of rules, spitting out a string of letters, and I did it in like 56 lines of code. When that compiled, when it ran without a hitch, and worked exactly how I envisioned it I was completely blown away. I did that in less than 100 lines of code?! Doing something simiar in C# would require 4 times that; not because C# is a weak language by any means, but because of the sheer number of classes and files and ritualistic public static blah blah blah you need just to get any code running. Naturally, the current version of the code is a bit longer; somewhere around 74 lines of code, but that's due to the fact that I added a bit more functionality, including a few macros that make the writing of rule sequences incredibly painless and intuitive.

I think this code was when I realised Rust had clicked for me... At least a little bit. I still have troubles with it; some of the things about the language are a bit confusing to me still, but that's natural with any language, especially one with a learning curve as steep as Rust's---and steep it is.

Like C and C++, Rust does not have or use a runtime, and thus does not have a garbage collector. Sounds really annoying to work with, but actually not! For the most part, Rust's compiler does all the memory de-allocation for you before the code even runs! Following a set of very strict rules, Rust manages to know exactly when and where in a program memory needs to be de-allocated, so you don't have to do it yourself. This does of course mean you need to know exactly what you're doing, or Rust will tell you you're doing it wrong. "Fighting the borrow checker" is a common newbie issue in Rust, and for good reason, you basically have to throw every habit you have out the window, especially if you're coming from a language with a garbage collector.

That said, I still love it! My code might not be up to par with the best rustacians (the Rust-community word for a Rust-programmer), but it's slowly getting there.

If you're interested in the word generator I wrote, you can find it here: https://github.com/ElectricCoffee/word_generator

#rust #rust-lang #programming #Programming language

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● We understand that you can’t always be around when the work is being performed. Our painters will work around your schedule and we’ll try to complete the work as quickly as possible without compromising quality of service.

● Cleanup

● We won’t leave you with a mess to clean up once we have completed our work. We handle every aspect of the cleanup process.

● Budget-Friendly

● We’ll work with your budget no matter how modest it might be.

At Eppley Handyman Services, it is clear that we want your business. We will do whatever it takes to gain it and to keep it. When you allow us to take care of your residential service needs, you’ll be able to see for yourself just why our professional painting services are preferred to the competition.

How Residential Painting Process

Painting Services and Cost in Omaha NE: Once we have discussed your painting needs, we’ll assign a project manager to your project. They will meet with you to discuss the work that you would like to have performed and provide you with an estimated time of completion. Once the work has been completed, someone from quality control will inspect to make sure that the work that was performed, meets our standard of quality. Most importantly, they will make sure that you are happy with the end results. It is only after this has taken place that we will ask for a final payment. We value your business and do everything in our power to show you just how much by offering you the quality of service that you want and deserve.

Commercial Painting

Painting Services and Cost in Omaha NE: The best way for a Omaha NE commercial business to put their best foot forward is to make a good first impression. The Omaha NE Painters is capable of helping businesses, big and small in Omaha NE, do this. If you have an operating budget and you’re trying to fit in some cosmetic services, such as painting, give us a call. We are accustomed to working within a specified budget to meet the needs of our customers. While we are always happy to provide potential customers with a quote, sometimes it makes more sense for you to provide us with your operating budget so that we can develop a plan within your budget. You’ll be able to choose from a variety of commercial painting services when you rely on The Omaha NE Painters, as we provide a host of beneficial services to commercial business in Omaha NE.

Efficient Omaha NE Commercial Painting Services

If someone recommends a painting service to you, no doubt they were happy with the services they received. When the services of The Omaha NE Painters are recommended to you, we hope that you will consider our reputation, as we have worked hard and diligently to solidify our reputation as the most efficient commercial painters in Omaha NE. We offer the most affordable and efficient painting services in the city, which is often why so many continue to recommend our services. With our high standard of quality services, you get your money’s worth and more at The Omaha NE Painters.

TIPS

Painting Services and Cost in Omaha NE: One of the tricky parts of owning a business is getting the perfect look for your building. You want to appear professional and interesting in order to differentiate your business from your competition. Take the right steps to get great results from your commercial painting project to enhance the look of your building and your business. Here are five tips for getting better results.

Choose the Right Colors

While you want your business to catch the eye of potential customers, be careful to select colors that will attract attention without being overpowering. Having one bold-accent wall can really make a statement, but remember: less is more when it comes to very bright colors. By selecting a calm color palette, you can avoid overwhelming your customers. Adding bold color through pictures, pillows, and other small elements are temporary and less expensive ways to add a pop of color.

Take the Time to Clear the Work Area

When commercial painting companies start a job, you won’t see them start applying color until the room is fully prepped. Before a contractor can begin prepping the room, they will need your employees to clear their work area. The best thing to do to expedite your painting project is to clear off work stations, remove art from the walls, and push light-weight furniture to the center of the room. By doing this yourself, you can save money on prep time (a cost of hiring the painting crew).

Use Primer

While some individuals may think that primer is an unnecessary step, many professionals say otherwise. Having that barrier in between the wall and your new layer of paint can prevent the color from turning dull once it dries and it can also help it to last longer. This problem often occurs because the compound used to fill holes and imperfections can pull the moisture right out of your freshly applied paint. If you are painting over a bright or deep color, primer is a good way to protect the integrity of the new color.

COST

How Much Does a Gallon of Paint Cost?

Painting Services and Cost in Omaha NE: A gallon of paint costs $15 to $40 and covers about 350 square feet with one coat. Designer varieties can run over $100 per gallon. Your contractor pays 50 percent less than what it runs in a home improvement store. You’ll also need to spend another $20 to $100 on supplies like brushes, rollers, masking paper and plastic. A professional will have these items on-hand.

Gallon of Paint Prices

● Pint* $5-$50

● Quart* $10-$80

● ½ $10-$25

● 1 $15-$40

● 2 $30-$80

● 3 $45-$120

● 5 $60-$220

How Much Is a Can of Paint?

A one-gallon can is about $20. Prices range from $15 to $40 with designer brands exceeding $100. You’ll usually save a little on per-gallon pricing when you buy in 5-gallon or larger bulk sizes.

Interior Paint vs. Exterior Paint Per Gallon

Some brands charge up to 25 percent more for exterior varieties. These price differences can add up to $50 per 5-gallon bucket.

Custom Paint Prices

Custom paints run $100 or more per gallon. Many accent types, like metallic and textured, come in smaller cans, like a pint or quart. You’ll pay anywhere from $10 to $80 for these smaller containers.

Professional Painter Prices

Most professional painters charge $2 to $6 per square foot of paintable area. Less commonly, they’ll charge anywhere from $20 to $50 an hour. In some areas with high costs of living, you might even pay upwards of $100 an hour. Most of this is for labor. Ask your pro to break out prices in an estimate into materials, labor and paint.

Professional's total cost:

● Paint and other supplies: 15%.

● Labor: 85%.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 45 percent are self-employed. More information regarding rates and associated factors is included below.

Painter Cost Per Hour for Labor

Hiring a painter costs $20 to $50 per hour. In some locations, you might pay as much as $75 per hour or more. More commonly, they’ll charge per square foot at $2 to $6.

How Much Do Painters Charge Per Day?

You can expect to pay a pro $200 to $500 per day. Most don’t usually charge a per-day, or per diem, rate. More often, you’ll find they either charge a per square foot, hourly or project price.

Price Per Square Foot for Painting a New Construction

You’ll pay anywhere from $2 to $4 per square foot for new construction. However, your general contractor takes care of all subcontracting needs. Unless you’re acting as your own general contractor, you won’t need to worry, it’ll all be included in the total home price.

Residential Painters Cost Per Project

Painting residential projects costs anywhere from $1 to $6 per square foot or $150 to $4,500 for the project. Pricing varies between jobs. Consider the amount of time each takes.

Common home project pricing includes:

Painting a home interior room and walls costs $1,000-$2,800 total or $2-$3 per square foot. Obstacles like stairwells and kitchen cabinets might increase prep time and thus cost.

● Painting home exterior siding costs $1,700-$4,000. Up to 25 percent more than an interior.

● Small home project painting costs $350-$1,100. Might include one accent wall, a door, cabinets or paneling.

● Painting a mural or trompe l’oeil costs $800-$1,700. Consider the artist's cost and fee structure, and the size of the space.

Ceiling painting prices: $150-$350. Cheaper if included with a whole home project.

Paint handrail for porch railing costs: $1-$5 per linear foot. Highly detailed rails might run twice as much.

● Cost to stain or paint fences: $700-$4,500.

● Deck staining costs $500-$1,000.

● Deck waterproofing or sealing costs $550-$1,200.

● Trim painting costs $500-$1,500 or $1-$3 per linear foot.

Painting an Apartment or Home as a Renter

If the responsibility is yours, you’ll pay $1,000 to $3,000 on average to repaint an apartment. Some buildings and landlords have pre-selected painters, while others will contract companies on an as-needed basis. If your landlord or building doesn't have a regular pro, see if you can DIY it to save up to 85 percent on labor.

If you're moving in and selecting a non-neutral color, understand that your landlord may require you to redo the walls the original color when you move out. Be ready to make that investment down the road.

There are cases where apartment complexes allow you to choose from a color wheel of neutral hues before you move in. Some charge a fee for calling in a handyman or other pro to do the walls, while most offer it as a benefit of signing a lease.

Commercial Painting Costs Per Square Foot

Painting Services and Cost in Omaha NE: Commercial painting costs $2 to $6 per square foot. Exterior jobs on multi-level buildings might run you twice that much due to setup time and accessibility. Commercial and residential projects are priced similarly.

Affordable Handyman House Painting Prices

For small jobs, you might hire a handyman for $20 to $25 per hour. Always hire a pro who does nothing but paint for any delicate or detailed work that you want done correctly.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Residential House & Commercial Painting Frequently Asked Questions & Answers

Painting Services and Cost in Omaha NE: In an effort to extend our friendly customer service online to our commercial and residential customers in Omaha NE, Eppley Handyman Services has compiled a frequently asked question list to answer your questions conveniently. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact Eppley Handyman Services directly with no further obligation.

Q. How soon do you begin my project?

A. Eppley Handyman Services performs services on a first come first serve basis. Once we begin your project we will continually work on your service until it has been completed.

Q. Who supervises the service?

We have fully trained and knowledgeable crew leaders with field experience and expertise to supervise every service conducted. Customer satisfaction is important to us and we assure a job well done.

Q. Can I ask for references before committing to you?

Absolutely, our references are available upon request. Our reputation is our greatest asset; with thorough new-hire screening process and detailed background check, you can rest assured our crew is perfect for your project.

Q. Are you fully insured, bonded, and licensed?

Yes, we have all necessary credentials to provide our authentication and our technicians are included as well.

Q. Can Eppley Handyman Services perform additional services besides painting services?

We offer a number of selected services to our customers that can get your home or business upgraded and re-mastered in high quality additions; ask for more details.

Q. Does a resident of the home have to be on the premises while the work is completed?

That is a matter of your preference; as far as Eppley Handyman Services is concerned, you do not have to be home while our crew is hard at work. With our high morals, in depth screening and background checked employees, you can trust in Eppley Handyman Services to work without resident supervision. We are very professional and can make arrangements for your convenience.

Q. What are my preparation requirements before work begins?

We only ask our customers to move the small knick-knacks, pictures, and light window treatments, and curtain type items before we commence. Our crew will do all other prep work including moving and protecting furniture and other such duties. Following the completion of your project, we will replace the furniture to their original location.

Q. How often is interior paint application recommended?

There are a few contributing factors: 1) the quality of the paint used. 2) Daily abuse endured. 3) Presence of smokers in the home. 4) Regular use of a fireplace. Though the circumstances surround the time an efficient paint job lasts, with regular care and maintenance your paint should last between 6 and 10 years.

Q. If there is existing drywall damage, do I need to get that repaired first?

Eppley Handyman Services specialists are more than qualified to perform any minor repairs and replacements to the drywall, ceiling, trim. Baseboards, and molding as needed. We want the paint to look crisp and precise, damaged drywall will hinder the outcome.

Q. After painting is completed, how long do I need to wait before cleaning windows?

Waiting 30-days before allowing any cleaning agents to come in contact with the new paint is recommended. Even though the paint dries in a matter of a few hours the curing process takes longer.

Q. Do I get to keep the leftover paint?

We leave you with the option to keep any leftover paint for touch ups down the road if needed. Paint will stay fresh in a well-sealed can for many years.

Q. What is involved with a paint consultation?

At a consultation service, we discuss the services you want for your home, expenses, process, estimated time, and if needed the color selection, style, and application. The consultation is designed to answer all the questions you may have and help you feel confident in our abilities. We have painting consultants that can help you find a trendy new style, or optimal ways to incorporate traditional paints and methods.

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A Heart’s Thoughts - Part Two

A/N: Okay so I was too impatient to wait much longer with this part. For this chapter, we need 30 notes again so I can post the next chapter~

Warnings: slight suggestions of depression ???

Synopsis: Everyone has their own two powers, but it’s up to luck whether you’ll end up being tortured for it or not.

Welcome to our little Empowered village, the place where you’ll learn to use your powers for good- or, that’s what we were told.

Pairing: Chanyeol x (female) OC

Word Count: 2037

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“I hate physical training.”

Cecilia let out a sigh as she slumped towards the enormous training room where all Empowered students, divided into a male group and a female group, gathered every day to spend four hours getting beaten.

“I actually quite like it,” Clover smiled and walked with light steps alongside Cecilia, who gave her best friend a look of disbelief, paired with slight annoyance.

“Shut up, Clover, you wouldn’t like it nearly as much if you weren’t able to see everyone’s movements before they happen. Just you wait until one day your powers disappear and you’re left with those toothpicks that you call arms.”

Clover, unfazed by her friend’s snide remarks just chuckled, “our powers won’t disappear, Cecilia.”

“I wish they did, though,” Cecilia mumbled under her breath and Clover turned to face her, “what was that?”

“Nothing, nothing, let’s just get over with this.” Cecilia let out yet another sigh before she caught sight of someone she had dearly missed.

“Oh my god FELICIA!” She wanted to run up to her friend but changed her mind and instead, tried to jog as fast as she could, ending up sprinting the last few meters and colliding with her other best friend.

“You-! How dare you not even call us over summer break?! I thought you’d really disappeared this time!” She let go of Felicia, who was smiling softly and looked from Cecilia to Clover and back, “I missed you guys, I thought I was gonna die with none of my close friends near.”

Cecilia softly slapped her friend’s shoulder and turned to motion for Clover to join their hug.

“That reminds me, have you guys seen Annabelle anywhere?” Felicia looked questioningly at the two, who shook their heads, slight worry washing over them when a cheerful voice spoke up from behind, “looking for me?”

The three turned to face into the direction the voice came from, and their reactions came all at the same time.

“Woah, calm down, I really wasn’t gone for that long,” Annabelle chuckled and broke free from the group hug as she looked fondly at her friend’s faces.

“It’s nice to be with you again, though. How come we never seem to go out at the same time?”

Felicia was about to answer, but Cecilia interrupted, “guys, have you heard? Apparently, they’re letting the males and females train together as of this year.”

She saw the expressions of her friends turn grim and she unwillingly saw their worried thoughts and wavering feelings. Aside from the males in the Class’ dorms, there wasn’t much interaction, creating a tense situation at the thought of suddenly having to train with hundreds of people they didn’t know.

“Ah, i-is that so?” Felicia’s voice came weak as she looked down, her frame already getting unclear as Cecilia grabbed her arm and squeezed it.

“It’s no big deal. Don’t let this worry you so much that you disappear,” She flashed her friend a small smile and she saw her feelings grow a bit brighter.

Clover clapped her hands, “we really need to get going now, thought. You know they hate it when students are late for their training,” she eyed the three friends and smiled, “I don’t see anything wrong with your futures, so don’t worry. I’ll protect all of you from harm.”

Hearing this, Annabelle also smiled and nodded, “and if anything does go wrong, I’ll simply turn back time and prevent it from happening. We’ve got this!”

Cecilia eyed Felicia and saw her feelings being fully cleared from negativity, as well as her thoughts.

The training building seemed even bigger than usual when they stepped inside and were welcomed by a huge crowd, hundreds of voices were heard and Cecilia grew pale as she abruptly stopped walking and faintly touched her ear with her right hand, tears unwillingly welling up in her eyes and at these times, she felt grateful that she couldn’t walk around without shades. She hated it when people saw her being weak.

Felicia noticed she’d stopped walking and turned around to give Cecilia a worried look, before realization washed over her as she came to notice how loud the crowd was. She nudged her friend and focused on one thought, knowing that Cecilia could read it, as she let her powers work on her best friend.

“The people won’t see you now, you don’t have to be strong.”

Cecilia read her best friend’s thought through her squinted eyes and she smiled faintly. She could still see and hear everyone around her, but no one knew of her presence. She sunk through her knees to the ground, clutching at her ears as she let a tear escape, “just one,” she told herself as she clutched harder and fought the other tears that were welling up in her eyes back. She said she’d just let one tear escape, so she was going to make exactly that happen. No more tears were allowed.

She opened her eyes as her ears slowly grew adjusted to the sounds, and she saw a tall figure standing in front of her. She looked up and saw to her surprise that it was Chanyeol, the boy she’d met earlier, and he was staring in her general direction. She stood up and took a step to the side and she saw his muscles stiffen as his eyes also moved and wandered over the spot where she was standing, but not focusing on her.

“I swear someone’s here.”

His thoughts confirmed her suspicions as she remembered what his powers were; controlling heat and sensing presences.

Cecilia huffed softly, surprised that Felicia’s powers seemed to be incomplete. Not that it mattered, since this man in front of her was the only person in this entire world with this power, since every power is unique, and gets passed to a new life when someone dies.

She saw Chanyeol stretch out his hand and she half expected it to touch her, even though she knew it wouldn’t, and indeed, his hand went through her. She saw his disappointed look and his confused thoughts as he shook his head and looked through the crowd. She knew he recognized some people, and her heart churned every time she saw him disregard his fond thoughts of his friends, or suppressing the urge to go to them.

“What is holding you back?” She whispered softly, and she suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder, causing her to jump up in surprise and she turned around, facing a worried Felicia.

“I’m pretty sure you didn’t hear any of what was said, but basically, we’re going to be split into four groups, males and females together, and the groups shift every day.”

Cecilia was grateful for her friend’s great understanding that she really couldn’t bear hearing any more voices, and came up with the idea to communicate with her just by thinking. She nodded slightly and Felicia smiled, letting go of her, “you’re visible again now.”

Felicia turned away as a teacher approached and told them where they were supposed to go. They served Cecilia a look, clearly noticing her pale face, and they raised three fingers before pointing to the other side of the building, making it clear to her that she was in the third group and was supposed to go to the other side of the building.

She gave the teacher a relieved smile before starting to walk away, but heard a panicked voice in her mind before she could. She turned around, recognizing the voice and she immediately found the person who’d managed to come through the barricade she’d set up for herself so she wouldn’t go crazy from people’s voices constantly entering her mind. She saw Chanyeol stiffening as the teacher approached, standing in something that looked like a fighting stance.

She saw his feelings; anger, fear, despair. The teacher grabbed his arm and tried to pull him with them, but he didn’t seem to work with them. He wasn’t clearly trying to get out of the teacher’s grip, but she saw him trying to push his heels into the hard ground.

She felt bile rising up in her throat as she saw his thoughts and realized what was happening, but she stood frozen on her spot, unable to move and help prevent it.

Apparently, this wasn’t a teacher, but a member of the council, which was basically a branch of the government in this Empowered village, and this person had literally muted Chanyeol as they tried to drag him with them to prevent him from calling for help.

She now realized why his voice had rung through her mind, “his real voice is being muted, strengthening his mind’s voice,” she thought and she focused on what was happening with the thoughts of both people, and she let out a soft gasp as something other than resisting thoughts flashed through Chanyeol’s mind.

“Don’t think that,” she whispered softly, as she took a step forward, but she saw Chanyeol’s muscles relaxing in defeat and he let himself be pulled out of the building, both his mind and his heart in resonance with the same negativity. The words that lingered in Chanyeol’s thoughts were still clear in Cecilia’s mind as she abruptly turned around and started speed walking to the room she was supposed to be in, angry tears prickling in her eyes.

“Maybe dying would be better than going through this any longer,” kept sounding through her mind in Chanyeol’s deep voice, distracting her from the physical training she was supposed to do, and she hadn’t realized what exactly she’d been doing until her knees gave out and her body collided with the hard floor, snapping her out of the mild trance she’d been in and making her painfully aware of the burning sensation in her legs.

She looked around and saw a teacher walk up to her, “wait, teach, what was I doing before I fell?”

The teacher was caught off guard by her sudden question and she bit your lip as the pain in her legs intensified.

“You were running.”

Cecilia cursed under her breath and the teacher gave her a surprised look, but got distracted when the door burst open and someone came walking in, looking around the room until they found Cecilia, walking up to her.

“Are you Cecilia? Clover suddenly panicked and told me to go find you.”

Cecilia stared at the boy in front of her and smiled to herself as she put her arm over her eyes, despite it pushing her shades back uncomfortably, and silently thanked her best friend for always being considerate, even when they weren’t together.

She let her head fall down on the floor and let out a wheezing breath, the pain finally catching up to her.

“Could you please help me get to the infirmary?”

The boy looked a bit surprised, but silently helped her get up, letting her lean heavily on him as they slowly walked out of the building to the school’s infirmary.

Usually, the infirmary was pretty silent, even when it wasn’t empty, but today, a low growl was heard coming through a closed door, followed by a hiss. Cecilia knew the boy next to her didn’t hear it, but she listened closely, trying to identify the voice in the other room.

“Please, it hurts-”

She heard the soft voice coming from the other room as the boy sat her down on a nearby bed, waiting for the school’s nurse to come.

“Uhm, I’m Jongdae, by the way.”

His introduction snapped Cecilia out of her concentration and she looked up at him, flashing him a small smile, “I’m Cecilia, thank you for helping me and listening to-”

She got interrupted by a door opening and when she turned to look who it was, she saw a familiar figure.

“Chanyeol?” She called out in surprise, and the boy’s expression changed from tired to surprised, mixed with a little fear. He scanned the room until he found Cecilia and she saw his expression become grim and his feelings grew negative before he turned around and exited the infirmary, leaving Cecilia and Jongdae alone again without saying a word.

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Blog #2 part 2

Over the course of the last month, I have taken to falling asleep with the television on. Each night, when I have turned the light off, I turn the television in my room back on and switch my Blu-Ray on to the Netflix app. I have not done this in hopes of watching a show to put me to sleep – I have never been able to easily fall asleep to any kind of programming, whether it be television or film, unless I have made the conscious decision to sleep. Rather, this has become a pattern of behaviour as a sort of background noise wherein I leave it playing at a near total loss of volume in order to provide an easier ushering for me into sleep. Part of this has to do with having an overactive mind which forces an insomniac response to sleep. To counteract this lack of ease into slumber, I leave Netflix running with Friends (1994-2004) on in the background, given that it is one series I do not really need to pay attention to after having watched it numerous times, and sleep with a mask to cover my eyes from the brightness. While my Blu-Ray does not have a timer to shut itself off, my TV does – although Netflix will continue to run until it has gone through three episodes and asks whether its user is still watching, which I do not respond to.

Part of this is what Sullivan (2013) refers to when he writes, “If you think about how you watch television, there are probably times when you are sitting rapt with attention (…) and other times when the television serves merely as background while you focus on other tasks” (p. 85). The latter part of this statement is what my end-of-the-night viewing habits refer to. I am not watching Friends as an attentive viewer; I simply leave this program running in the background to allow myself an easier lead into sleep after several weeks of finding it difficult to manage this on my own. I am not sitting there, as Sullivan puts it, “rapt with attention” because I do not need to be. Not only is this due to many years of watching the series so often that I no longer have to pay mind to it to gain some use out of it, but it is also a sitcom; which tends to have a more inconsequential story structure, unlike something like – say – Game of Thrones (2011-) that requires focus to get what is useful out of it. Rather, having Friends on in the background provides a wholly different use than what some might require of their audience experience.

Despite Netflix’s lack of affiliation with Nielson, there is some data that can be transcribed from this particular viewing habit which can illuminate one of the problems allowing too much credence in Nielson ratings has. Sullivan (2013) states, “Media executives and advertisers have typically equated audience size with quality or viewer satisfaction” (p. 85). In a way, this means that the executives and advertisers believe that however many people are viewing a program, it must mean that it is either a well-made program or it gratifies the audience member in some manner. From my own experiences with Friends, this is not necessarily true. While I have, in the past, viewed Friends because it is an enjoyable sitcom that I believe to be well-made; my actions here do not represent that particular audience habit. This action is a much more passive endeavour wherein, if I had been watching the series as it aired on television, I would not be intaking the program the way an advertiser might like me to. Since I am not actually paying any close attention, the ads – or commercials – would not be fulfilling their purpose as an incentive for the program getting to air. This would be particularly disconcerting for a series that is ongoing; thus, it would rely on the money it receives for the ads presented during its airtime.

Buzzard (2015) explores this further in her article on audience ratings when she discusses ratings being based around audience size, “Audience size, known as exposure, literally serves as the currency for determining the cost paid by advertisers for network and spot advertising” (p. 512). This is part of the problem there is in relying as heavily as we do on Nielson ratings – it cannot give advertisers a complete grasp of how well the audience is perceiving the commercials that are being produced. Audience size does not equate comprehension or attentive behaviour, nor is it necessarily accurate enough to have as much control over the television medium as it presently has. Without going too far off of a tangent regarding how problematic Nielson ratings can be, it is important to note that there are not necessarily any more reliable ways of creating a currency for television.

Circling back around specifically to Netflix, I find it difficult to try to perceive how they get by with as much original content as they do on the limited funds of a monthly paid service. It does seem simpler, as a streaming service, to discover an accurate depiction of just how many viewers watch a particular series or film, but – again – how can they know for sure just how many users are paying attention? Perhaps this does not matter as much to them, given that it is a paid for service, but it is certainly something to think about.

Works Cited

Buzzard, K. (2015). The rise of market information regimes and the historical development of audience ratings. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 35(3), 511-517.

Sullivan, J. L. (2013). Media ratings and target marketing. Media Audiences: Effects, Users, Institutions, and Power, 77-104.

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arielsojourner · 8 years ago

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I spent the last 10 hours a day writing things for work the last three days and I sit down for a little relaxation time and all my brain wants to do is write. more. of. this. AU. Not an actual fic, noooo. Not any of my WIPs that are so oooold. No. My brain wants to write bits and pieces of something that will never. be. ARG!

Part 3 of my mess of Time Travel AU daydreams and imaginings:

-Grievous thought the little Jedi was easy pickings. Short and puny, his lightsaber hardly worthy of seizing as one of his many trophies but then the Jedi moved and Grievous realized this one was going for a precision kill. There was no desire to capture him. There was no buried anger making him sloppy. There were no fancy flourishes with his lightsabers, the Jedi saved his flourishes for his whole body. Suddenly two of his limbs are on the ground, and oh, look, another one, is that a clone with one of his lightsabers? No, wait-----!

-Vader didn't like to admit it but wherever he played at being a Separatist Sith (it made his stomach turn every time, Kix had even tried to prescribe him something for the nausea) he did enjoy hanging out with the simple battle droids. He wanted to hate them. Hate came easy to him after all but even with their restrictive programming and short life spans they had such character and personality. They were funny. He tried to reprogram as many as he could. They may not be organic but he thought they too deserved better than their lot.

-Ventress was enjoying herself. She hadn't known she could enjoy herself. She had been angry and desperate and fighting and fighting for so long that she didn't even recognize the feeling until Luke had smiled at her and asked her if she was having fun yet. She had nearly snapped back a reply, (it had reminded her of Kenobi's needling) until she caught herself and realized he genuinely meant it. He wanted her to be having fun and she looked around and realized that she was. Ventress enjoyed every minute of undermining Sidious and Dooku. She was being freely taught all manner of new Force techniques and wasn't required to grovel or prove herself before some dark master or mindlessly obey some council. She wasn't afraid of being stabbed in the back. Vader would have the decency to face her head on if he wanted to and Luke didn't seem interested in either redeeming her or condemning her. She could just . . . enjoy.

Ventress' New Top Five Favorite Things About Life Included: 1. Making the Trade Federation cry when she destroyed their ships and stole from them. 2. Dooku's face when he realized she had tricked him and Luke and Vader had somehow beat him at his own game. 3. Terrorizing local planets only to say "Just Kidding!" when peace was declared. 4. Gambling on Luke and Vader with the locals whenever they went swoop bike racing, or pod racing or whatever speeder-they-could-get-their-hands-on-racing after they declared peace on a planet. She always made a killing. 5. Tortur--- ahem! helping train the Force sensitive clones.

Three Things Ventress is REALLY looking forward to:

1. Kenobi and Skywalker's face the first time they face Vader. 2. Kenobi and Skywalker's face the first time they meet Vader and Luke. 3. Sidious' face when his plans unravel and Vader and Luke put him down hard.

She has already used her gambling winnings to invest in a high class holocamera. Ventress prides herself on being prepared.

-Padme has met many Jedi but Luke has to be one of the stranger ones because he is just so . . . ordinary. There doesn't seem to be anything very special about him at first glance. He doesn't have that air of power around him that members of the Council do. He doesn't radiate danger or have that battle ready edge that sometimes seems to burn through Anakin. He doesn't command in that stated solemn voice of all knowing Jedi wisdom. Padme would have though him just another young man, untested, untried, someone that seemed so very young to her if it wasn't for that look in his eyes and the words he spoke. He declared peace, and people believed it. He said freedom, and she knew he would make it so. He spoke of the love and caring he had for his companions and his father (a Jedi with a father? If he was here, she never saw him) that she had never heard any Jedi speak openly and publicly about. She could see the love and caring in his eyes. He wore his feelings openly and without guilt. She wondered if someday Anakin would ever be able to speak of her that way, to anyone, without feeling like he was betraying Obi-Wan or the Order just by doing so. Whoever Luke was, he had her support and she strongly suspected Anakin would agree with her. She couldn't wait for the two of them to meet.

-Vader was not stalking. He wasn't! Padme had settled in for the night after she and Luke had had dinner and Vader just wanted to make sure there was no more assassination attempt or kidnapping or explosion to disturb her rest. He would just stay here and enjoy the quiet evening. The fact that he was under her window (which was open! Why wasn't it locked? Anyone could come in! C-3P0 was not useful as protection after all.) was purely coincidence. It was a comfortable spot though and there was room for Luke to sit too when he came out to join him. He hadn’t told Luke about his mother but Luke just knew. In the dark no one could see Luke lean against his father's shoulder. In the dark no one could see Vader leaning back.

-Desperate, Palpatine sends Cade Bane to hunt down this rogue Jedi making peace of all things and take him out. He can’t have Jedi making peace. He is passively aggressively getting everyone to believe the Jedi are behind the war to gain power while using the war to kill them off. Given his past victories against the Order, Palpatine is sure Bane won't fail.

-Bane fails and fails miserably for several reasons. First, Luke being a long time Tatooine native and having been dealing with bounty hunters chasing Han (or sometimes chasing Luke himself due to the enormous bounty Vader put on his head) for the past 2-3 years in the future makes Luke prepared for all of Bane's tricks.

-"Vader put a bounty on your head?" Fives asked incredulously. Before Luke can answer Vader cuts in defensively "I needed to find my son quickly and at the time he had chosen to throw his lot in with unscrupulous rebels and criminals." Luke rolls his eyes. "My friends are not criminals." Even with his mask on it is clear that Vader is giving him a Look. "Leia says that rebelling against an illegal government is not a crime, Father!" “I should ground you for saying such treasonous lies! You sound like a-a Separatist!” “Father, you are pretending to be a Separatist right now!”

-”Do not get in between them when they start talking politics,” Rex advises Ahsoka firmly, as she nervously fingers her lightsaber as the two men argue. “Sometimes I don’t think even they know what side they are on other than each other’s side.”

-Second, Bane fails because Vader no longer cares about waiting to attack your enemy until he shoots first or giving fair warning to an enemy. Bane came for Luke. Bane had nearly killed Ahsoka and Padme before.

-Third, Bane also didn't expect Force sensitive clones, battle trained, unpredictable and protective of their teacher. They may not have been very skilled yet at saber play but the three brothers moved in sync with each other and with speed and vicious strength that would make even accomplished Jedi impressed. (Vader wants Luke to take away Hardcase’s second lighstaber. He’s going to stab the wrong person if he is not careful. He’s going to stab Luke and then Vader cannot be held responsible for what he will do. Luke asks Ahsoka for help.)

-Every time Luke talks to Ahsoka or asks her a question while he is near his father, Vader goes stiff and inches away as unobtrusively as possible. Which is not that unobtrusive. Is he . . . scared of me? Ahsoka wonders.

-Fourth, Bane also didn't expect Ventress. Bane ends up very very dead and Vader and Ventress wastes no time gathering further evidence of Palpatine's betrayal.

-Luke and Vader vacillate about when they can confront Palpatine. They take turns getting all ansy about just flying to Coruscant and killing him, especially after it was clear that he is behind most of the attempts on Padme's life when she is sent out on Senate missions and the chips in the clones heads and the whole kriffing war. But given that everyone still likes the Chancellor and not enough clones are free from the chips in their heads, they decide not to risk it until they are certain they can not only beat him but burn his plans down with him.

-Sometimes Vader argues that they should leave some of Palpatine's plans intact. The Republic is a corrupt bloated beast. The Jedi Order easily fell prey to the Sith and they are in need of reforms. The Empire wasn't all bad. They had some very nice capital ships after all. Luke usually stops what he is doing when Vader starts on those thoughts and grabs his father by the arm and suggest they go flying or racing or, oh look Father, have you seen a ship of this model in this condition before? Why don't we take it apart together and make it go faster?

-Luke is not interested in ruling the galaxy. Luke is pretty sure that if Vader thinks about it, Vader knows that Vader shouldn't be ruling the galaxy. He won't enjoy it at all, Luke is sure about that. Luke has realized that his father is happiest, is at peace, when he can protect the people he loves, when he can take action in the face of the things that threaten the people he love, when he can be open and accepted for being just that. Luke is also pretty sure after meeting his mom that she wouldn't appreciate being given the galaxy to rule by her future Sith husband either. (Vader argues that Padme would be great as Empress. He is sure she could see the wisdom of it and she would be so great at it. Luke breaks out the big guns and suggest the two of them soup up a starfighter with future technology). As much as the Republic has serious problems (Sith infestation being one of them and slavery and corruption and apathy for the needs of sentient etc. etc.) Emperors are not the solution.

Luke wishes Leia was here. She would know what to do.

#sw au #star wars alternate universe #luke skywalker sweet cinnamon roll #luke and vader #father and son save the galaxy #ahsoka tano #ventress

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aaaaansweeeeerrrr ttheeeeemmm aaalllll theeeeeennnn 8D

all 100...of course you would xD

Spotify, SoundCloud, or Pandora?- tried all 3 but Spotify won.

is your room messy or clean?- usually clean but right now it’s a dump, trying to get my life packed up- we’ll ignore that I have not even started

what color are your eyes?- hazel, but they appear brown because they are brown in the middle and green on the outside

do you like your name? why?- yes and no, only because everyone spells it wrong.

what is your relationship status?- errr. complicated xD

describe your personality in 3 words or less- introverted, odd, shy

what color hair do you have?- dark brown

what kind of car do you drive? color?- don’t drive

where do you shop?- Woolworths *the joke is that it’s a grocery store

how would you describe your style?- whatever fits over the tits

favorite social media account- TUMBLLLLLLRR BOIII

what size bed do you have?- king single

any siblings?- 1 older brother, 1 younger brother, 3 older stepbros, 1 younger stepbro, and 1 older stepsister

if you can live anywhere in the world where would it be? why?- probably England because at least shit happens there and it’s not hot.

favorite snapchat filter?- anything to hide my acne

favorite makeup brand(s)- probably maybelline but I don’t wear makeup much anymore, will probably get back into it going to school again

how many times a week do you shower?- 7 days

favorite tv show?- DAAS Kapital, South Park, Red Dwarf, Doctor Who, The Adventures of Lano and Woodley

shoe size?- fucking 11 mate- THAT’S THE BIGGEST SIZE OF WOMEN’S SHOES THEY MAKE!

how tall are you?- 170cm so 5ft 7

sandals or sneakers?- thongs mate

do you go to the gym?- HAAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHA

describe your dream date- doing something fun like going to an arcade or mini golf- as long as theres icecream involved :3

how much money do you have in your wallet at the moment?- 40 cents

what color socks are you wearing?- i fucking despise socks

how many pillows do you sleep with?- 3, two for the head and 1 for a cuddle buddy

do you have a job? what do you do?- I did, I was a waitress

how many friends do you have?- maybe 3 or 4 online? irl- none xD

whats the worst thing you have ever done?- I accidently broke a girl’s wrist once by tackling her at touch football practise *fyi: you’re not supposed to tackle in touch football, you tag them xD

whats your favorite candle scent?- I don’t like candles, but anything vanilla would be okay I guess

3 favorite boy names- ain’t telling

3 favorite girl names- still ain’t telling

favorite actor?- Ewan McGregor yasssssssssssssss

favorite actress?- hmmm- this one is harder to figure out. Idk

who is your celebrity crush?- just one? Obvsly the DAAS boys, Matt and Trey, Tom Hiddleston was one for a while back, Danny JJ is still good but I’ve kinda moved on with RD for now. I’m not a normal 20yo cause I can’t think of someone I have ever had a crush on celebrity wise that was anywhere near my age- plus these are more like platonic crushes because of the huge age difference xD

favorite movie?- Ironically I just found out I follow a girl with the same fav movies which is fun- so that’s Moulin Rouge and Anastasia, but recently I’m loving Spin Out (Tim’s movie), Orgazmo, Cannibal the Musical and Baseketball ;D

do you read a lot? whats your favorite book?- I did when I was younger before technology ruled the earth *pffff* but not so much now. Current faves are Housemeeting by Lano and Woodley and Carry A Big Stick by Tim Ferguson.

money or brains?- Brains

do you have a nickname? what is it?- My family call me Beka but I hate it, but the only nickname I have besides that is Plum/Plummy and Kate calls me that :3

how many times have you been to the hospital?- I’m surprised I haven’t been besides when I had ‘digestive problems’ when I was a toddler. I’ll let you think whatever you want with that

top 10 favorite songs- Enjoy the Silence- Depeche Mode, Big Time- Peter Gabriel, My Weakness- Moby, Muchacho- Kings of Leon, Lemon- U2, Here She Come- DAAS, The Only Thing I Know- Gotye, Deep Surprise- Samantha James, Solsbury Hill- Peter Gabriel, and for the shits, Shatterproof- Trey Parker

do you take any medications daily?- the Pill OOOOOOO spoopy

what is your skin type? (oily, dry, etc)- combination

what is your biggest fear?- heights, medical stuff and death

how many kids do you want?- maybe 2 or 3, that’s if I feel up to pooping them out.

whats your go to hair style?- straighten my fringe and brush my hair

what type of house do you live in? (big, small, etc)- medium, but I’m moving into a share apartment with just a room and bathroom soon

who is your role model?- currently Tim, just a really nice dude and someone to look up too

what was the last compliment you received?- can’t remember

what was the last text you sent?- schit. “this whole scene is full of beautiful tim” I’M MAKING DAAS GIFS OKAY I GET SIDETRACKED XD

how old were you when you found out santa wasn’t real?- probably about 9? maybe earlier?

what is your dream car?- idk I’ve never really looked at them, something on the smaller side though

opinion on smoking?- fucking disgusting

do you go to college?- nope, TAFE soon, but no uni.

what is your dream job?- concert film director, i’m coming for you Anton

would you rather live in rural areas or the suburbs?- suburbs

do you take shampoo and conditioner bottles from hotels?- not really, sometimes the moisturizers cause they are good to have when travelling

do you have freckles?- yes, everywhere unfortunately

do you smile for pictures?- depends on how I feel

how many pictures do you have on your phone?- 471

have you ever peed in the woods?- this is Australia, if you don’t live in the city, everywhere is the woods.

do you still watch cartoons?- depends on what qualifies ;D

do you prefer chicken nuggets from Wendy’s or McDonalds?- we don’t have wendy’s here, so maccas

Favorite dipping sauce?- sweet and sour

what do you wear to bed?- currently in summer its a shirt or singlet with shorts

have you ever won a spelling bee?- I won my class spelling bee once

what are your hobbies?- singing, dancing, drawing, making gifs (even if they are killing me rn)

can you draw?- not really but I give it a crack

do you play an instrument?- I used to play drums and trumpet for a while in school, but I can only really play notes on pianos now

what was the last concert you saw?- the DAAS Live show is the only thing I’ve come close to a concert- because CERTAIN bands and singers won’t come back to Australia T.T

tea or coffee?- tea but I wouldn’t mind coffee if it didn’t make me ansy anymore

Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts?- We don’t have either of these- there’s Starbucks in the cities but no DD.

do you want to get married?- yes but finding someone is the hard part

what is your crush’s first and last initial?- abcdefg...

are you going to change your last name when you get married?-yes

what color looks best on you?- I think maroon.

do you miss anyone right now?- Katerina D:

do you sleep with your door open or closed?- WHO SLEEPS WITH THEIR DOOR OPEN?!

do you believe in ghosts?- not really

what is your biggest pet peeve?- people dirtying places I’ve just cleaned.

last person you called?- my mum when she was babysitting my niece.

favorite ice cream flavor?- Mint Choc Chip :3

regular oreos or golden oreos?- I just had regular, and I haven’t tried golden

chocolate or rainbow sprinkles?- Chocolate

what shirt are you wearing?- a plain greyish blue one

what is your phone background?- Paul sneaking behind Tim

are you outgoing or shy?- super shy

do you like it when people play with your hair?- yassssssssssss

do you like your neighbors?- no they are all old and like to do yard work or home improvements at godless times of day T.T

do you wash your face? at night? in the morning?- whenever I shower, but I tone it every morning and night

have you ever been high?- definitely not

have you ever been drunk?- still dont drink so no

last thing you ate?- oreos xD

favorite lyrics right now- “You don’t turn me off, I will never fail. Things I loved before are not for sale. Keep yourself away, far away from me. I will forever stay your Perfect Enemy.”

summer or winter?- winterrrrrrrrr

day or night?- nighttttttttttttttttt

dark, milk, or white chocolate?- milkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

favorite month?- july

what is your zodiac sign- scorpio

who was the last person you cried in front of?- my dad

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robrob1127 · 7 years ago

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Acoustic Hot Tuna returns

to the Colonial Theatre

By Rob Nagy

Pivotal members of the legendary Jefferson Airplane, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady return to the concert stage with acoustic Hot Tuna.

“It’s just going to be me and Jack,” says Kaukonen while on tour in the southwest.

“I think an acoustic show is a little more internalized which is satisfying. I’m not sure each of us knows what the other is going to do. We listen really well and we’re willing to go wherever the other person is leading.”

“We want to give people the best possible experience that we can,” adds Kaukonen. “We’ve got a great team that helps us do that in terms of sound and all that stuff, the palate to express ourselves. In terms of the show, to let people hear the stories and in some way be part of the conversation.”

“Jack is my oldest friend,” says Kaukonen. “If you talk to him you know that he and I are really different people but we’ve always tolerated (laughs) and respected each other personally and artistically. I think that just makes it easier to get together and have fun.”

Relocating from the east coast to San Francisco in the early ‘60s, Kaukonen befriended fellow guitarist Paul Kantner who he joined along with vocalist Marty Balin and later, bassist Jack Casady, to form the Jefferson Airplane.

Signed to RCA Records, and following the release of their unsuccessful debut “Jefferson Airplane Takes Off” (1966), vocalist Grace Slick and drummer Spencer Dryden joined the band. It was their follow-up album, “Surrealistic Pillow” (1967), featuring the singles “Somebody to Love” and " White Rabbit” that would be the break the band needed. Both songs were instant classics and remain a part of the soundtrack of the ‘60s generation. The band released five more albums, “After Bathing at Baxter’s” (1967), “Crown of Creation” (1968), “Volunteers” (1969), “Bark” (1971) and “Long John Silver” (1972).

“When you go back and listen to the freshness of that music, when it was new for all of us, it’s hard to recreate that sort excitement or newness.,” recalls Kaukonen. “At the same time, I think I have a deeper appreciation of what we were able to do.”

Kaukonen recalls performing at the decade’s most significant musical and social gatherings.

“Both Jack and myself and a lot of my contemporaries have been so fortunate,” recalls Kaukonen. “A lot of it has to do with being in the right time and the right place with the right people. And to leave footprints on the pages of history like that, it just doesn’t happen to everybody. People say, ‘You were at the big three: Monterey, Woodstock and Altamont’ - we had no idea what was going to happen. Woodstock was an oddity because there were a number of festivals that summer, but there was only one Woodstock. You just couldn’t script that but there it was and there we were.”

“Time marches on, nothing stands still,” adds Kaukonen. “I think there is a lot of truth in that one of the things that I think made the music so important to all of us, not just the creativity that was happening at the time, but the relevance to the social fabric at the time. I just don’t hear that today.”

In an effort to expand their creativity outside the band, Kaukonen and Casady formed Hot Tuna in 1969, which initially included Marty Balin. Featuring Kaukonen’s blues finger picking and Casady’s powerful bass licks, Hot Tuna released their self-titled debut live album in 1970.

“Jack is one of the best bass players in the world, ever! says Kaukonen. “He has the ability to play groove, which he is so good at as well as extremely inventive improvisational and crafted solos. You would think that people would know about him. I guess maybe the reason is that he isn’t a front guy and he has played with other people and so people don’t hear about him as much. It is a shame because he is so good!”

With the disbanding of the Jefferson Airplane in 1972, Kaukonen and Casady concentrated their efforts on Hot Tuna. Initially an acoustic act, they evolved into an electric band as well. Their third and first studio album “Burgers,” yielded the hit “Ja Da (Keep on Truckin').” Kaukonen launched his solo career with the release of his debut album “Quah” (1974). Hot Tuna broke up in 1978 reforming again in the late ‘80s. He has spent the last three decades performing and recording with Hot Tuna as well as his own solo career.

“I’m at a point in my life that I’m not self conscious at all (laughs),” says Kaukonen. “I don’t now if that’s a good or bad thing but that’s how it is. You give what you’ve got to give and if the people like it, great but if not, oh well.”

“I can truthfully say that I never phone my parts in. I’m always there in the moment,” adds Kaukoen. “Sometimes your ability to be able to communicate on that primal level, to me, the music is storytelling. Success is when I’m telling the story and people are getting what I’m saying.”

“Our fans tend to be people of a certain age that have made the journey with us,” says Kaukonen. “I would just like to thank them for being part of our life as we’ve been part of theirs.”

Kaukonen and his wife Vanessa own and operate the Fur Peace Ranch, a 119 acre stretch of land in the hills of southeast Ohio, near Pomeroy, which includes a recording studio. The ranch offers music camps to aspiring musicians, both young and old, as well as live concerts.

“We are starting our 21st season at Fur Peace Ranch,” says Kaukonen. “We’ve got great teachers. We’ve got great shows and we’ve got great food. The teaching thing for me has always been important. You try to believe that you have to make the world a better place. But on a more personal level, in some way to be able to give back the access to the music that was given to me. I’ve been teaching on and off since before Jefferson Airplane. It’s so enjoyable to me because I enjoy the process so much it’s just a gift to be able to do it.”

Hot Tuna performs at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460, Monday April 2, 2018 at 7:30 P.M. For tickets and further info call 610-917-1228 or visit www.thecolonialtheatre.com

To stay up to date with Hot Tuna visit www.hottuna.com

www.jormakaukonen.com

www.jackcasady.com

http://www.dailylocal.com/article/DL/20180328/ENTERTAINMENT/180329773

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