My voice is hoarse and weird a lot now, but it can hit this low resonance, that's interesting. Now I can imitate the hilarious way this guy at the gay center lowers his voice, if I see him again I gotta do it.
We're talking about 2-1/2 months on T here, I'm guessing most of the changes are still ahead of me :laugh:
I've been playing with the register too, singing to my dog and scaring the crap out of him. Got a quite range now. :laugh:
I wanna be able to sing Johnny Cash. And from what I'm starting with, and taking my dad's voice into consideration, there's a good chance I'll be able to.
Alex, I can't be sure, but most likely your voice is dropping. Mine dropped at around 1 month on T, but it can take up to 6. And as per Johnny Cash songs... I always figured I'd never get to that point myself, despite the fact my little brother's voice is bass. After 8 months on T, I was at about a baritone... and then it dropped again. Johnny Cash, baby.
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Quote from: Alex_C on September 06, 2009, 01:53:01 PM
My voice is hoarse and weird a lot now...
Mine gets hoarse alot too, even a bit sore. I assume it's my voice changing, I just didn't know it could make you hoarse and a bit sore. I'm getting the cracking too- but I've always had that. It's just more often now. I really don't know if my voice has gotten lower or not but I've noticed less ma'ams over the phone the last 2 weeks.
Hmm that would be interesting, if I could afford a phone to talk on, good test.
I sure hope I don't get cracking! I don't need that!
God, you do you live in Cali w/o a phone? Even the homeless people in SF have phones, weird.
I just can't afford the $50 a month for a cell phone. I borrow a friend's or use the phone in the farm house here (I live in a trailer in back) or something.
I thought about getting one and I just can't justify it.
Even when I was homeless I had one, its almost impossible to find a job in NorCal w/o a constant internet connection, but no phone is impossible. I know many places that will not hire people without phones, most of the ones I work for included.
Sigh. Due to the aftermath of the loss of my business, I'm unemployable anyway.
The solution is to do a chapter 7 bankruptcy, make sure no one gets a penny, and start anew.
Great plan EXCEPT - my friends and I are convinced the "doom times" are here, and stockpiling, training (EMT and Paramedic for me) and sheer survival take first precedence. Any money I get goes into these things, and other things are way down at the tail end. For instance, I'd say right now my highest priority is getting a new eye exam and a few decades' worth of contact lense stocked up.
I make my money selling crafts and will do any work as long as it's undocumented, no names, no numbers, no paper trail. If I work very hard, I make almost minimum wage. This is much better off than a lot of people! I'm always on the lookout for underground work I can do, but I keep running into that sticky paper trail problem. My solution has been to *make* a job, making crafts that are well made and cheaper than the Chinese-made equivalents being sold in the US. I'm proud to take back a job from the Chinese!
A cell phone is just way down on the priority list. If I get offered some undocumented work that requires a cell phone, I'll go get one, under a fake name of course.
I have a lot of friends who have garages stockpiled with stuff from the Y2K deal, perhaps they would cut you a deal.
They're gonna turn out to be the smart ones.
The guy who owns this place has been prepping for Doom since 1986. The end result is, he actually produces more in the garden than a few tomatoes and flowers, other preps and supplies are stocked up, and the PLACE IS PAID OFF. He knew the leading edge of Doom is a catastrophic drop in income, and he's been prepping for his own income, once quite high, to go way down. Now it's way down, and because of his preps he's not knocked out of the game. I myself live on 1/12th by my estimation, of what I used to make, the result being a short period of homelessness and then living here.
We see successful and unsuccessful people all around us. The unsuccessful ones have good jobs, that they're about to lose, or HAD good jobs that they just lost, and are staring homelessness in the face. I talk to doomed people all the time, was counseling one lady to stop paying her mortgage, save that money in her mattress or a coffee can or someplace safe, use the year it will take the bank to kick her out to PREP. She won't listen though, "I have too much stuff ... I have a little bit of equity...." she's gonna ride it all the way down. End result will be getting kicked out in a year or two but WITHOUT that coffee can of savings from not paying mortgage .... but I digress...
The successsful ones are the ones who have hit bottom and learned to deal with it, even thrive. One example is T., he can't work on paper either, actually has a piece of land due to an inheritance and a local lady who's a real estate type who subdivided a lot of hers to keep him as a neighbor, T. coming to help you is the real-life cavelry charging over the hill, complete with the shooting irons, Woe to those who oppress a friend of T.! I guess I'm example since I've done my tour of homelessness, am building up a little craft biz and have learned to, most importantly, travel and live and survive on almost no money. Yes I even panhandled, did that for 4 months and got rather good at it, but will always do something real if I possibly can, even if it's for less money. Frankly the money I'll go out and make today, I could make in 1/2 the time panhandling and I know it. This is why it's hard to convince some of the street ppl I befriend that making crafts is cooler and better for the soul.
I find these times, and this side of life, fascinating. I'd love to have a licensed business again and a desk and a phone and a car and a credit rating, and listen to NPR on a Bose Wave and go to Chamber of Commerce meetings, a regular life is a lot less work than being underground and all this. But at the same time, I don't miss writing thousands of dollars a month in checks to send out, and having to run like mad buying and selling and testing, repairing, shipping etc., that my biz entailed.
I would say the best book on the kind of world we're likely to see is World Made By Hand by Jim Kunstler, sure it goes off into some weird stuff in the end, but overall it's probably going to turn out to be the best forecast. There are many other books but they tend to be power fantasies etc.
This post is turning into a BOOK..... do I think I can do pretty lil' crafts as things get worse? Maybe, and maybe not.... With EMT skills in place I may find myself in as much demand doing people-patching and people-caring type stuff as folding lil' ribbons and such. I may find myself making shoes. I may find myself making shoes then getting bored with it and taking someone who's talented and setting THEM up making shoes.
Y2K. If only we were that lucky. I hate computers.
Quote from: Alex_C on September 06, 2009, 01:53:01 PM
My voice is hoarse and weird a lot now, but it can hit this low resonance, that's interesting. Now I can imitate the hilarious way this guy at the gay center lowers his voice, if I see him again I gotta do it.
We're talking about 2-1/2 months on T here, I'm guessing most of the changes are still ahead of me :laugh:
I can't wait until I can start on T. Since my 'rents are putting me through college and I haven't come out to them (and might never, lol, they're uptight like that), I probably can't start for another few years :-\
I've already got a bit of that resonance thing, just a bit. It's not constant though, and I crack or squeak occasionally.
Quote from: Alex_C on September 07, 2009, 02:30:13 PM
They're gonna turn out to be the smart ones.
The guy who owns this place has been prepping for Doom since 1986....
I've always wanted to get that self-reliant.. I think that's cool. ;D
Get your "'rents" to kick you out at age 18 with not a dime of support or any care, and have to support yourself entirely from then on, have to do college on your own, T on your own etc. You'll love it!