the happiness, excitement, and general contentedness thread

[Kacey Y]

i have to ask: how did the person in the video know what dog poop tastes like? though that might be way more information than i'm ready for.

(I hope)

[BitchPudding]

Things are coming up Milhouse for my personal life. My daughter is gonna be starting pre school soon. Shes a little social butterfly so of course shes excited. We are too! (If not a little sad that our last baby is heading to school. :,) ).

My son's grades are up in math! Dude is heading to high school next year, so I'm glad to see him put in some effort to up his grades before he starts. Math ain't easy, I myself completely sucked at it. So I'm very proud of his progress.

I'm still waiting on the results of my ADHD evaluation from my Psychiatrist, but I finally am on an antidepressant. Just gotta wait a month to start seeing the effects. Should notice a difference in time for the next Phantoms show, so maybe it'll be more of a spectacle if I'm able to live without fear.

[dubkitty]

one of the preamp tubes in my Princeton Reverb went wonky, and so i got out my box of tubes to find a replacement and popped in an old RCA short plate that was the first good tube i found. it improved the sound so noticeably that i went through all my other 12AX7s and found a GE and a reissue Mullard. replacing all three of the Groove Tubes 12AX7s made the amp even better, and i was already happy after replacing the awful stock Celestion with a Jensen. i downloaded a service manual so i can figure out which tube comes first in the chain etc.; i like GE and Amperex for V1 and Telefunken for the reverb driver which i want as clean as humanly possible. i’ll swap the AX7s around tomorrow so the GE is V1, and try the other 2 in either position of V3/V4 (v2 is the reverb driver, weirdly enough). i still have to get a 12AT7 for the reverb driver. RCAs are a bit crunchy for V1 but are nice in V3 or V4. but it’s so much better that it really raised my spirits. i guess i need more GE and Amperex AX7s because they’re my favorites. better preamp tubes would probably be good for the AC15 and the Hammond reverb conversion head. for the record, i don’t think power tube brands matter much, but the right preamp tubes can make a dull amp sing. i still might look for some old Tung-Sol 6V6s because i have an ancient one that’s a magic tube in my Electar Tube 10. small rig improvements make me disproportionately happy.