Exactly, so there's no "basement" i.e. a space built entirely in the ground underneath above ground living space.[user not found] wrote: ↑Mon Mar 01, 2021 12:55 pmI thought your house had levels and was kinda built into the slope?
The house is multiple concrete levels, built like walk-out basements, but it's all finished living space. So we're 1,500 sq ft full stop. Many 1,500 sq ft houses also have a basement underneath that's not counted in sqft, providing useful storage and some living space. Our house doesn't have that at all.
There's a big storage space built off the garage that we use for basement type storage, but things like the office or workout space had to be integrated into the 2nd bedroom/guest room instead of just in the basement.
It's been more of an adjustment than I thought it would be, but it was great for simplifying crap that lives in the basement untouched for decades.
with my wife buying shit like house decorations, cooking gadgets, clothes, etc. but then I look around and I have three bikes, several guitars, a tuba, an extra set of wheels/tires, bunch of tools, a huge tote with a helmet/track stuff/spares... it's a long list. These are all great "basement things". As much as I want to be minimalistic, I also like my toys for hobbies. I do have uses for all three bikes which are unique. I could have one gravel bike I guess, but it would be worse for everything I do.
of the bolded. Our house is a 
size for living space at about that square footage, but stuff like the spin bike, my bikes, storage, etc. sucks since we don't have basements here really. I would probably even set up my office down there if I could just to have more space. 
concert trombone to the local high school...the band director was 
and he said they're going to use it as a reward for students who got to first chair for concerts. Made me feel good, and it's a better use for the thing than sitting in my closet, or selling it to someone that could afford it (I wanted less fortunate students to have the opportunity to play on a really nice horn). I took my marching horn and turned it into the lamp you see.
and just abandoned it all in an effort to distance myself from that nonsense. I certainly didn't want to be a starving artist my whole life. My closer friends abandoned band for engineering or other high achieving degrees at fancy schools, and I wanted to do the same and did. (fucking follower). I doubt I would have moved as much or done so much after college if I stayed in band...I probably would have had a strong social circle that kept me back. I wouldn't have been sad because I didn't know any better, but in hindsight I'm so glad that I made the decision I did.
Sounds like Dan did it this way, and I wish I had just so I kept my chops up. I don't even know if I can play anymore, and will probably never find out.
story.
out. I was in marching band freshman year at U Miami. It was a pretty cool experience going to all of the games, getting featured playing sousaphone on national TV and stuff. My parents would see me during games all the way back in NC and get excited. At the end of the year though, I had never really fit in with the marching band crew that well and bailed. No regrets on that, glad I tried it, but I had a group of friends on the "Music Engineering" side of things who were more my people.
