How MyLot helped me make $50.39 on April 1

@TheHorse (220267)
Walnut Creek, California
April 4, 2016 2:02am CST
I tried to come up with a catchy title because I'll be gone pretty much all day tomorrow. On "that other site" (the site that will not be named), I used to do posts like this. It would turn out that $50.00 was made from playing a music gig, and $00.04 was made on the site. I was poking fun at what that site paid. Here, even when I'm not around, the amount I make isn't that bad. I appreciate that. But I decided to do such a post anyway. I was inspired by my right index and middle fingers. Both hurt like hell right now. I'm using single malt Scotch as an anesthetic. My country band played a gig on Friday night. I usually play mandolin with that band, but our bass player couldn't make it, so we played as a trio, with me on bass. The gig went well, and I came home with $50 in my pocket and four glasses of a really nice Merlot in my tummy. Today, I practiced with a different band. In that band, I play bass. The bottom line: I'm hoping these blisters will turn into callouses. Is there something you do that tweaks your body? I practice guitar and mandolin at home, and have the appropriate callouses (on my left hand). But I only play bass when I'm gigging (I practice bass runs on my guitar), and therefore don't have good callouses on my right hand. Ouch.
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@LadyDuck (472060)
• Switzerland
4 Apr 16
Malt Scotch is a great anesthetic, it was not strong enough when I burned my hand three weeks ago. I hope your blisters will turn to callouses, my blisters have burst and now my hand is peeling... not so nice to look at for the moment.
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@LadyDuck (472060)
• Switzerland
4 Apr 16
@TheHorse I hope too, it's taking longer than I thought and I hate this.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
@LadyDuck I'm sending healthy thoughts your way. I played bass again tonight at an Open Mic I help host. My fingers feel OK right now.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Apr 16
I think my blisters will turn to callouses. Sometimes there's callused skin UNDER the blister. I hope you're healing on schedule.
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@DaddyEvil (137602)
• United States
6 Apr 16
Sorry, pony, I have no clue what you are talking about.... While trying to figure it out I happened to enlarge this photo and I noticed something that DID interest me there! Is that really the cell phone you still carry around with you? That looks like the first Nokia cell phone I bought my daughter when she was 11 years old! PLEASE tell me you haven't used that phone for fifteen years! LOL! Yes, I still have my daughter's first phone in a drawer in my bedroom... Yes, it still has time on it and yes, it still works... That doesn't mean anyone should still use an antique like that, though!
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@mommaj (23112)
• United States
6 Apr 16
Seriously @DaddyEvil ? All you took from everything in that post was that he needed a new phone? Actually, that is really observant. @TheHorse gave me a headache with the thought of scotch, a pain in my fingers because of his hand and a stab of jealousy that he makes 39 cents when he is not here. HAHAHA As far as the phone if it rings and he picks it up, the girls should be happy. I mean callers.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
That's my Panasonic land line phone. I think I HAVE had it for about 15 years.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
@mommaj You flatter me. Don't stop.
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• Preston, England
5 Apr 16
my writing leaves callouses on my index finger from gripping pens tightly for long periods
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• Preston, England
5 Apr 16
@TheHorse if in reach of my computer I use it but otherwise I write anywhere on any available materials
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
So you still do first drafts by hand? I write poems on napkins,or whatever is available. But short stories are mostly written on computer.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
4 Apr 16
Lifting 70-lb bales of hay and 50-lb bags of sweet feed and oats will do it to me every time @TheHorse .
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
Give you callouses? I'd get muscle aches! Actually I used to stack hay. But our 70 lb bales really weighed more like 55 lbs.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
7 Apr 16
@TheHorse Whether the bales are 55 or 70; with either cord or wire wrapping, it's a booger with my spine.
@JudyEv (342122)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 Apr 16
I know our bass-playing son won't wash up as the hot water wrecks his callouses. That's his story anyway!
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Apr 16
Oh, I'll have to try that excuse!
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@JudyEv (342122)
• Rockingham, Australia
5 Apr 16
@TheHorse Maybe Mums are more gullible than partners/spouses.
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
4 Apr 16
I can't play any instrument, so I have no calluses. Wish I could play, I'd definitely welcome them.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
Do you ever get them on your hands from cycling?
@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
6 Apr 16
@TheHorse - No, I always wear gloves, I've never had that problem.
@allknowing (137792)
• India
4 Apr 16
39 cents is ok. That will ensure 10 dollars if they revert to that payout I have not worked my hands that roughly to develop callouses
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
Bass and guitar give me callouses on my fingertips.
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@Jackalyn (7558)
• Oxford, England
5 Apr 16
I am glad you are able to make money from your gig. I still have lumps on my fingers from when there were only pens to write with...
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
Pens? What are those? How do they create lumps?
@BelleStarr (61101)
• United States
4 Apr 16
Ouch is right, when i used to play guitar I had great callouses but without them pain is all I remember!!
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
Yep, it's always great when you get to play enough not to hurt when you play.
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@FourWalls (69030)
• United States
6 Apr 16
Ouch is right. My fingers ache when I don't play guitar for awhile until the callouses re-form. I can only imagine that playing bass (especially stand-up) is so much harder on both hands because the strings are so much bigger; and, unlike other instruments (guitar, mandolin, banjo), most people don't play bass with a pick (and, of course, with a stand-up bass there's no way to use a pick!). Hope your fingers get better soon.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
Yep, I try to use different parts of my index and middle fingers. But I still wind up in the same boat. Thanks!
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• United States
4 Apr 16
I would never picture you as a country music person/player..and the mandolin of all things. did you ever hear of Mitch Corbin - a very good mandolin player (and he makes them too).
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• United States
6 Apr 16
@TheHorse No that's not it, you don't seem 'country-ish' more city slicker type! Anyway Mitch is/was a biggie in blue grass - he bought our home in Sevierivlle, TN when he moved there to work at the Dixie Stampede. Of course I had never heard of him since I'm not into blue grass.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
I don't think I know Mitch Corbin. How come you wouldn't picture me as a Country guy? Because I'm a teacher? A lot of teacher types like bluegrass music. It's kind of rock 'n roll for aging hipsters.
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• United States
4 Apr 16
gigglin' :) i used to haul hay from outta the fields 'n that first batch'd really tear my hands'p somethin' fierce. nothin' to be done fer 'em outside'f soakin' 'em'n epsom salts.
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• United States
6 Apr 16
@TheHorse gloves didn't seem to matter much 'til i built up some calluses, lol. those roundies jest kick my backside. i've not the equipment to move'em 'round, so found the need to get creative with 'em.
@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
I wore gloves when I built hay stacks in Montana. I can't remember if it hurt my hands or not. Damn roundies. They may me feel like a part of the old West.
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@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
5 Apr 16
Malt scotch would be a antiseptic and you can have a drink at the same time.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
Mmm. Too early in the morning to think about Scotch and its virtues (smiley face emoticon).
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@Lucky15 (37374)
• Philippines
4 Apr 16
When i was starting with the.guitar, the finger tips on my left hand had those callouses. The middle.one is always this tough callouse that sometime i use the nail cutter, to cut some. And it.is nice.to.know.that you are in a band.too, aside.from here.and those.woodworks :)
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Apr 16
Sometimes those callouses catch on a string. One of our guitarists and I were discussing care and maintenance today. He uses 1600 grit sandpaper on his nails and callouses.
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@Lucky15 (37374)
• Philippines
4 Apr 16
@TheHorse yep. The reason why my middle finger has the toughest. Haha Sandpaper? whoah!
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@GardenGerty (160978)
• United States
4 Apr 16
Well we can certainly tell that I do not play a musical instrument. I dropped a loose door on my right big toe and have a blood blister. It still looks gross and painful.
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@celticeagle (168327)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Apr 16
This one time in your adult life you can say you've playing too much.
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@celticeagle (168327)
• Boise, Idaho
6 Apr 16
@TheHorse ....Thought you said your hands hurt.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
7 Apr 16
@celticeagle Just the tips of my fingers, really.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
Playing too much? Impossible!
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@LdeL0318 (6400)
• Philippines
4 Apr 16
$50 is such a decent amount for a night gig. That's nice.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
Yes, they paid us $150 as a band. Not bad for an evening of fun.
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@LdeL0318 (6400)
• Philippines
5 Apr 16
@TheHorse True. Hope you have more gigs to come.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
@LdeL0318 Thanks. We will.
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• United States
4 Apr 16
Anything that I do not do habitually hurts if I do it all of a sudden. I try to ease into things now, because I am really not a fan of pain.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
I had a teenage moment and climbed up onto the roof of the carport the other day to fetch a "rocket" my 7-year-old neighbor buddy had shot up there. Maybe I'll do a post about it. I surprised myself. Like you, I try not to do unfamiliar things too abruptly.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
@ElizabethWallace Well, I'm at my computer instead. You never know what might happen.
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• United States
6 Apr 16
@TheHorse Men who climb on roofs often end up in the E.R. My brother-in-law did, and broke his leg. He was pretty lucky. At the same time another man was there for the same thing, but he landed on his head.
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@just4him (317238)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Apr 16
Enjoy your anesthetic I'm glad you had a good gig on Friday and hope those callouses form quickly so the blisters go away.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
I played bass (and some guitar) tonight at an Open Mic I help host, and I feel OK.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
@just4him Mine seem to be turning into callouses. No pain tonight.
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@just4him (317238)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
5 Apr 16
@TheHorse Awesome! Blisters are doing good or turning into callouses?
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@Telynor (1763)
• United States
4 Apr 16
We have a kurzweil and I set it up to sound like a classical piano, and play when my hands are not too swollen or aching.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
5 Apr 16
What makes your hands hurt? I wish I had a piano here.
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@Telynor (1763)
• United States
6 Apr 16
@TheHorse I have arthritis, not at all fun.
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@TheHorse (220267)
• Walnut Creek, California
6 Apr 16
@Telynor Oh, that sucks, especially if you play piano and it stops you from playing. I have some arthritis, but it's mostly in my lower back.
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