Hi friends!
I realized the other day while talking with some friends that I haven’t really shared what I do for work on here. I mostly post music announcements & music related stuff here which might indicate that the lights are kept on through my aural passions however that is not the case.
For the past 13 years I have been a home inspector. I was once an apprentice, and then an employee and now I’m proud to say an owner/operator. My father and I launched A+ Reliable Home Inspections in 2016. Thousands of houses later and I’ve only been bit by a dog twice🐶✨
Over the years I’ve added specialty training to provide extra services like radon, water & air testing. Maybe you’re about to purchase a home and need an inspection; maybe you are renting but you are curious about the air quality in your apartment; maybe you haven’t checked the radon levels in your house in the last 5 years.
I’m here to help so just let me know!
I hope this didn’t come across as to pluggy, but that’s sort of the idea too. Tbh I have so many friends in the area that I don’t know what they do for employment. Please if you are in the Knox area and you provide a service or product that you want folks to know about leave a comment with your info; especially if you are in a trade or real estate as I am always looking to refer clients to people who do good work.
If you made it this far, thanks💫🫶🏼
Asheville! It’s been too long!
Very excited to announce I will be supporting the illustrious OTT next month at Sly Grog Lounge✨
Stoked to have Benji Robot & lxneé along side for support!
I’ll be in town for the whole weekend so let’s plan some adventures🫶🏼
So I’m out riding some trails near my house and I pass some elderly ladies and one of them says to me “nice head”! Lol wut??
Shouts to @ollywollydoodle for the ears/hat💫
Playing some chill vibes along side Brian Coakley for my lovely friend’s first art show tonight! Come support some excellent local art and mingle with friends💫
I thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my own using samples. I then thought using samples was cheating, so I recorded real drums. I then thought that programming was cheating, so I learned to play drums for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating, so I learned to make my own. I then thought using premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so I grew my own goat from a baby goat. I also think that is cheating, but I'm not sure where to go from here... I haven't made any music lately, what with goat farming and all...
"Piglet?" said Pooh.
"Yes?" said Piglet.
"I'm scared," said Pooh.
For a moment, there was silence.
"Would you like to talk about it?" asked Piglet, when Pooh didn't appear to be saying anything further.
"I'm just so scared," blurted out Pooh.
"So anxious. Because I don't feel like things are getting any better. If anything, I feel like they might be getting worse. People are angry, because they're so scared, and they're turning on one another, and there seems to be no clear plan out of here, and I worry about my friends and the people I love, and I wish SO much that I could give them all a hug, and oh, Piglet! I am so scared, and I cannot tell you how much I wish it wasn't so."
Piglet was thoughtful, as he looked out at the blue of the skies, peeping between the branches of the trees in the Hundred Acre Wood, and listened to his friend.
"I'm here," he said, simply. "I hear you, Pooh. And I'm here."
For a moment, Pooh was perplexed.
"But... aren't you going to tell me not to be so silly? That I should stop getting myself into a state and pull myself together? That it's hard for everyone right now?"
"No," said Piglet, quite decisively. "No, I am very much not going to do any of those things."
“But - " said Pooh.
"I can't change the world right now," continued Piglet. "And I am not going to patronise you with platitudes about how everything will be okay, because I don't know that.
"What I can do, though, Pooh, is that I can make sure that you know that I am here. And that I will always be here, to listen; and to support you; and for you to know that you are heard.
"I can't make those Anxious Feelings go away, not really.
"But I can promise you that, all the time I have breath left in my body...you won't ever need to feel those Anxious Feelings alone."
And it was a strange thing, because even as Piglet said that, Pooh could feel some of those Anxious Feelings start to loosen their grip on him and could feel one or two of them start to slither away into the forest, cowed by his friend, who sat there stolidly next to him.
Pooh thought he had never been more grateful to have Piglet in his life💜
