Yeah, yeah, I know. I've been bad about this writing thing lately. I've been busy with moving all my stuff around in preparation for getting new carpet installed in my house. The carpet was installed yesterday and it's a huge improvement. It makes the house almost seem brand new. It's very thick and 'bouncy' to walk on too. I'm so happy to finally be rid of the dead carpet that's been in this house for the last 4 years - the entire time I've lived here. It's been bad since I moved in. Finally it is acceptable. Much improved! I still have some stuff to sort through, but most of the stuff is back where it belongs. I'm also getting a nice new computer desk delivered for my home office tomorrow night. That's why the main computer is still in pieces all over my living room!
I've also been busy learning how to play the guitar. I am really enjoying this! With my friend Dave's help, I'm progressing much faster. With only 2 lessons from him, and his answering many, many of my beginner questions, I feel like I've probably shaved months worth of trial and error learning off my efforts. It's amazing how a few well placed suggestions can help so much. I'm still a LONG way from being able to play much, but I've at least progressed to playing notes on different strings and I'm not totally screwing it up, so that's progress. I just need to work on doing it a bit faster and cleaner and I think I'm well on my way to actually starting to be able to call myself a musician. I've even started to study music theory in this effort. This effort to learn is rapidly beginning to 'eat me alive', and I like that. This to me is the best part of learning something new. It's that great feeling when you finally start to understand all the things you've seen over the years, and never really undersood. Dave's help has been a huge part of this. I really appreciate all his help with this. It means a lot to me that he is nice enough to do this. I hope that I can return the favor in some way.
And in case you are wondering why I don't have any pictures on my blog, here's why. I did not think that my blog software had any support for pictures... I just noticed that it does! (See what happens when you don't read the instructions!) Let's see if I can add my first little test picture here... Woohoo it works! Time to post some more pictures...