As with any new hobby, there is a dangerous period where your interest subsumes almost everything else into the background. In addition to practicing roughly an hour or two most nights, my musical dementia has gotten me in a bit of an acquisition phase. Thankfully, I have kept rational enough to foster the appearance of control, but to illustrate ( Read more... )

laddical and piratelemur caught me in a moment of weakness and so I spread this along ( Read more... )

I had some quality time with Trevor this weekend. If I had to estimate, probably five or six hours total. I am getting pretty comfortable with the G Major scale at this point and, as it turns out, I have a pretty good sense of rhythm. At least I got that impression whenever I played with the metronome ( Read more... )

Much like word_geek, I may hang up this narrative for a bit just because ten posts is a nice round number. It is also a good transition from my college experience at a branch campus to one at the main campus...

( Changing of the guard )

( Lesson, the first )

While it may be widely known that the stew of my college experience was heavily seasoned with theater... I bet that not many people know who held the bottle.

( Getting into the act )

Every so often, I remember snippets from my life less conscious. Sometimes, they are entertaining enough to share. This is one of those times.

( Music to my ears )

I had another decent series at bowling this week: 158, 157 and 121. I am a little disappointed in the third score but I believe I was just getting increasingly distracted about being late to a meeting I had scheduled the same night. It is interesting to speculate how my average seemed to creep up 30 pins over the last two weeks... the most ( Read more... )

I mentioned a couple of card games which were stories onto themselves. Here's the other:

( Mao )

I mentioned a couple of card games which were stories onto themselves. Here's one:

( Bossita )