guitar gear

Like most guitarists I have a fascination with guitar gear. If I was wealthy I would buy a few more guitars and amps along with a shitload of pedals and recording gear. Given that I am not wealthy, though, I can only think about it.

Saturday morning

I woke up early this morning and, not knowing what to do with myself, ate some cold pizza and watched part of an episode of Orange is the New Black. It’s a lazy way to begin the day, but it’s Saturday morning. When I was a kid I used to get up very early on...

I feel like writing

I just finished a post a short time ago, but I feel like writing some more. I don’t have anything in particular to say, I just feel like putting more words down on screen. In fact, let me write a little bit, do something else, then write a bit more. I have ...

cold black coffee

I have an irritating habit of drinking leftover black coffee in the morning rather than making a fresh pot. I’ll make coffee if there is none, but if there is any left over the next day that seems to suffice. It’s probably kind of gross, but I don’t really ...

a day of coding

I just spent a number of hours putting together a weather app from a YouTube tutorial. The app doesn’t work. I really don’t know what is wrong with it because I finally got it to where Dev Tools showed no problems. Still, it keeps telling me I have an inval...

thinking about Keith Richards

I don’t know why I am thinking about Keith Richards today, but I am. I guess he is one of those famous musicians I would actually enjoy sitting and talking with (and unfortunately, B.B. King is dead). I have long had this kind of fantasy of running into a c...

writing about music

One thing I have noticed about my writing with regard to music is that I don’t have a consistent way of approaching an artist or a composition - I just spew out whatever comes off the top of my head. Freewriting is cool, but I need to brainstorm the best wa...

posting again

I actually created this file yesterday, but then I didn’t write anything. Let me pick up today where I might have left off yesterday.

need more words

This is becoming an obsession, trying to hit my daily word target. I didn’t write anything yesterday - couldn’t be bothered - but today I feel like I need to produce enough for today, yesterday, and the day before when I only wrote c.260 words. I really wan...

coding sucks today

Some days I enjoy coding: I learn something new and have an “aha!” moment. Other days it feels like pulling teeth. Today is one of those days. Simple jQuery is easy to understand, but more advanced jQuery is nasty, and not in a good way. I have to admit tha...

musical practice again

Just to help me think through my musical practice, let me first lay out all of the things I would ideally like to work on.

divorce sucks

I know it’s a cliche, but divorce sucks. I feel like I’m getting raked over the coals by the woman who used to say she loved me. Now the issue is that she has hired a lawyer to go over the divorce mediation agreement, and I can’t afford to hire a lawyer to ...

Hawaii Five-0

I have been in a funk lately, watching episodes of Hawaii Five-0 non-stop. I think I’m more attracted to the idea of living in Hawaii than anything. I mean, the show is very badly written, and it has ruined two very interesting actors for me: Grace Park and...

woke up late

I woke up very early this morning to find that the kid was on her way to school. That’s a surprise. I went back to bed only to wake up late this morning. Bummer. A good portion of the day is gone.

later in the afternoon

So now it’s later in the day. Let me see if I have more energy for writing now. Earlier I seemed to be blocked. Let’s hope I have an easier time this time around.

writing some more

Writing this blog is therapy for me. I guess that’s why I want to write more just a short time after finishing my last post. I don’t have anything particular to say, but I’m feeling some anxiety around money and the impending divorce so I thought I would pu...

playing with code

I’ve been playing with jQuery and CSS a bit in CodePen. Let me see if I can embed the Pen in this page.

musical practice

I need to reestablish my musical practice, but I don’t want to over-plan this. Just a few things to practice at a time. I can start by refreshing my memory about the chord solos I had been working on some months ago. I had most of them memorized before so i...

writing on a rainy day

Today is a rainy day, and I am using that as an excuse to not go anywhere. I don’t know why I would need an excuse, though - I hardly go anywhere as it is. In any event, here I am at the keyboard again.

the writing bug

One thing I have noticed with regard to this freewriting blog, as I think I have written before, is that the more I write the more I want to write. Just today I had to keep myself from producing a second post until later in the afternoon. The last post I wr...

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