I’ve survived another adventure in the instability of parking meters and all things of that nature.<\/p>\n
Or have I?<\/p>\n
I created a IRmeter.dll that works wonderfully on my handheld, but doesn’t work at all on my boss’s – no clues as to why, except I have a more recent OS than he does which might have to do with it. So now I have to find images for the old OS and load them on my handheld, which takes for-flipping-ever because you have to do it over a serial port.<\/p>\n
In more interesting news, I bought a accoustic guitar, finally – after years of thinking about it, I picked up a Ibenez 12-string at a local pawn shop. I wouldn’t have, but it has a action so low that I can easily bar on it – and you don’t find that in a 12-string every day!<\/p>\n
So yesterday I took some time to play peter,paul and mary and Simon & Garfunkel tunes on it, savoring that accoustic sound and feel. She’s (I’ve decided it is gender-female for sure) a beautiful machine with a lovely voice – and a active pickup! Woo hoo!<\/p>\n
She’s also tuned to Eb – I’m afraid to tune up to E because I feel like that might raise the action (more stress on the neck) and I don’t want that. So I guess I’ll invest in a capo.<\/p>\n
And a strap. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
And after I learn a few more songs, maybe I’ll sit out on the ave and sing them, like so many other musicians do.. \ud83d\ude09 The neatest thing about a accoustic guitar is it requires no batteries, no speakers, no amps.. you just need a pick and strong fingers.<\/p>\n
Of course, sadly, after only a hour or so of jamming, the twelve-stringed nature of it started to get to my fingers. I can see I’m going to gain some serious callouses out of playing this..<\/p>\n
And luckily it was in tune (at Eb..) when I bought it – I don’t even want to think about how hard it must be to tune a 12-string. Maybe I better buy a tuner..<\/p>\n
I want to learn ‘blackbird’ and ‘alice’s resteraunt’ and ‘city of new orleans’ and ‘walk on the ocean’… but honestly, peter paul and mary is probably more my speed.<\/p>\n
Anyone know a good place to get guitar lessons? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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In other news..<\/p>\n
I always think of interesting things to write \/ talk about in my journal when I’m not sitting at my computer, and then when I sit down, all of it dissapears like a soap bubble. Well, I just woke up, what can I say.<\/p>\n
[deletes several ruminations about recent dramas]<\/p>\n
My office is a complete disaster. Maybe I’ll take some time and clean it today. And do the dishes, which are also scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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