  Hey, it's almost 2025, time to change my website a little bit. So we're re-writing this page a bit. Oh, yeah, Hi, I'm CreepingNet, a (soon-to-be) Semi-Retired YouTuber, serial hobbyist, luthier, computer guy, mechanic, plumber, electrician, and general tinkerer of anything not nailed down, as well as a retro gamer and a middle-aged cranky guy who wishes he could take a time machine back to the year 1985.
I run a YouTube Channel that's been going almost 20 years (until I semi-retire from it in 2026, assuming humanity is still alive by then), have run this site since 2019, have been a local musician all across the United States since 1996 as a pre-teen, and have been an outspoken proponent for offset-guitars in metal music almost as long. These days I rarely deign to go on any form of Social Media except to post projects and annoy people worth annoying (mostly advertisers, selfish people, and idiots). I've also been proudly permabanned from reddit for being doxxed by a psychotic MAGA-hat....if that's the voice of the internet, our world is in DEEP shit.
So what happened to the projects page? Well, I decided I already give enough of myself to the internet. I run this website by myself, for free, for fun, not for profit, I have not even put a "buy me a coffee" button on my main page (even though the missus thinks I should). I just sorta hang around and talk about stuff that most people probably want to yell "manchild" at me for liking - well - f*** them then. I work 40 hrs a week (actually more), pay my bills and rent, and follow commitments and responsibilities, except I'm not "Adulting", I feel like I'm 90 years old....and I got a ways to go to hit that number. I think the word "ADULTING" is stupid BTW!
SPECIFICATIONS
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| CreepingNet
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| OCCUPATION
| Semi-Retired YouTuber, Computer Guy by Day, Rock Faces off by Night, and internet ENT
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| BASE OF OPERATIONS
| An Underground Base Located Somewhere in the Desert, guarded by a nest of Japanese Murder Hornets
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| DATE OF MFG
| 02/09/1983 - But I'm NOT A Millennial....I drank from the garden hose, rode bikes with no safety gear, in the back of moving pickups on the highway, came home when the lights came on, and played video games that required imagination like the rest of you Gen X Guys. I hate Avacado Toast, drink black coffee, and generally, keep to myself IRL.
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| CHICK STATUS
| Married w/ two furbabies
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| CONTRIBUTIONS
| Over 1000 pieces of music across 12 bands since High School, released multiple full length albums, including one mixed by Jack Endino who worked with all the famous Seattle Sub Pop bands, more autism-spectrum-disorder level reasearch on 8088-80486 PCs and legacy consoles than any mortal should endure, wiring diagrams for Ford radios, building more guitars than most Korean guitar building houses for less than microwave dinner, and being a quasi-expert at rare Candian celebrity designed guitars, and being the only mortal who can keep a Fender Mustang or Jaguar in tune strung up with .009s while tuned down like a nu-metal guy, while playing it like I'm in an 80's pop-metal band.
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| LIKES
| Too Much Old Shit. Old Video Games, Old Cars, Old Computers, Old Guitars, Old Architecture....ah fuck-me, old stuff is best. Books by Henry Rollins and Charles Bukowski, comedy by George Carlin and Bill Hicks, old cheesy 80's late night comedy flicks (think Night Flight) and horror movies with a budget lower than a modern house, cussing up a storm, torturing feudalist Social Media platforms (ie FakeBook and Reddit), and ranting about life's absurdities
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| DISLIKES
| Fundimentalists, Education Elitists (aka, people who think a piece of paper is more important than an actual education), O/S Fanboys, Modern Consoles, Modern Computers, Megacorporations run by Narcisscistic CEO Billionaires, Psychotic politicians, the public (because let's face it, Carlin was right, the public SUCKS), A.I. being considered for anything more than goofey pictures and toilet music, anti-woke people, people who are woke who want to fight me for the way I fight back in support, Toxic Masculinity, Toxic Femininity, Courier Services, other drivers, and idiots in general. I have a very short fuse, but I sure as heck know how to use it properly.
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Random STuff I'm Inspired to Write (I like writing....I should maybe consider writing a book someday)
A bit about my up and coming Semi-Retirement from YouTube and why
Pocket Thoughts: Random Musings based on the "Thought Provoking Stories" that pop up on Firefox every time I launch it!
annoying Ads (mostly from YouTube) and my complaints about thema>
Opinions, I have a lot of opinions on things.
THE CREEPINGNET F.A.Q.
Q - Aren't you that guy on YouTube?
A - Yes, and I have a link to my channel on the bar at the top of the page.
Q - Are you still playing music?
A - Yes.
Q - Are you in any bands currently?
A - No. Since a little after the Pandemic started I got promoted to a senior position at my job where I have to be "on-call" at least once a month, so that combined with some irritation with the immaturity of past bandmembers has left me a bit shy of playing out again. That and the dwindling size of club stages and the growing size of other people's band ideas. If I were to start something, I'd probably just put together a high tech, tight, 3 piece.
Q - Where can I buy your albums?
A - I'm flattered. But I have not figured out a distribution thing yet, nor have I seen the size of interest from people. I tend to write and record an album a year just to keep my tools sharp and allow me an outlet for things in my life. But it's serving nobody and doing nothing just sitting on my hard disk with only me and my wife listening to it.
Q - Would you be interestedin selling your gear?
A - Some are pretty much never going to be for sale, my red Kramer, Jag-Stang, Jaguar, Jazzmaster, Paul Dean, and some others (unless I clone them), but eventually I do plan to put together a Reverb shop so I can start selling some of the stuff I'm building and any excess. I'm just trying to get all the parameters right for shipping as I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist about such things.
Q - You have a lot of guitars, are you rich?
A - No, I'm likely in the same financial situation as you are. The only way any non-famous nobody accumulates so many instruments is because they were CHEAP or FREE. Your average guitar in 2005-2025 cost between $0.00 from a dumpster to around $3000 if you're really stupid and buy a full-on Gibson or PRS because you care about brands more than the guitar itself (well...unless you're a rockstar and can afford one). Almost everything I have is either built by me, built out of parts from cheaper instruments by me, built out of chinese parts by me, or was bought at a discount because it was a shredder guitar in the anti-shredder 90's, or a grunge guitar in the anti-anything-that's-not-black early 2000's. Everything I own is so modified no shop wants it. I'm also not looking to sell.
Q - Can you play XX Cover on your YouTube Channel?
A - I might, I have shied away from covers a bit in recent years because of the whole legal parameters of posting that on youtube, plus I am pretty much playing the same old stuff I was playing 10-20 years ago most of the time, with the occasional new thing creeping in once in a blue moon, but nothing like back in the 2000's when I was finding new bands every day on the internet I'd never heard about.
Q - Do you still have/play XX guitar?
A - Depends. Some of them have been parted out into others (Black Strat, MTD, MadRite, Pink H806), some of them have been sold (First Act ME-636 #1, ME-537, J.Reynolds Lefty, Epiphone EB-0 bass), some were traded for something I have now (66 Fender Mustang, Mustang Bass, Jaguar Special HH), and some are still with me but so modified and transformed now they barely resemble what they were when you probably first saw it (2007 Squier Jagmaster, 2017 Mad-Rite, Rogue H804), and then the classics of course are always around, though even some of them have evolved a little bit (Hondo Paul Dean, Jag-Stang, Kramer Focus 3000, Jaguar, Jazzmaster, etc...).
Q - Are you still doing RetroComputers?
A - Yes, I'm just not talking as much about them due to a wane of interest from others, and because most of my stuff is so well tweaked and tuned now that I don't really do as much "tinkering" anymore, and spend more time using and enjoying them these days.
Q - What happened to other parts of the site??
A - I do this site for free, for fun, and don't make any money doing it, so I stick to a free account for now. That's about 1GB of space total (I'm VERY efficient - or at least try to be), and I've used up about 50% of it. So I often delete parts of my website as I see them either not as useful to anyone anymore, or think they were a misjudgement in embarassment/TMI/Stupidity/whatever - I'm only human ya' know.
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