My Fender Blues Junior arrived today!  It works just great, however I found out that my Fender Strat has very noisy pickups so John is going to help me shield it up and resolder my ground when I’m home next week.  The hum sound is so loud that I can hear it under the chords, […]

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We’re having a Tuesday night D&D session tonight in order to accomodate our group’s hectic schedule.  That means it will be a later night tonight, but much fun will be had by all. In other news, my car’s window miraculously started working today.  When leaving the office, I inadvertently hit the switch to roll it […]

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Since we’re having our rabbits cared for over the week of our vacation, I opted to clean up their houses tonight.  Instead of my normal once-over with new litter, I opted to put the rabbits in their travel carriers and take their cages outside and hose them down.  This needed to be done for a […]

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On Thursday, I was driving home from work and decided to roll down my window.  My driver’s side window stopped rolling down halfway through.  I was able to eventually get it rolled up by pulling up on the window and trying to roll it up with the switch. So now I have to go get […]

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Since I got my Brian May pedal, I’ve been working on some Queen songs.  Specifically, I’ve been working on the solo from Bohemian Rhapsody and its been difficult.  I really need to get back to working on my Fretboard Logic books and learning technique in order to get better, but I’m having trouble resisting the […]

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Hardly a surprise, but The Beatles: Rock Band has touched off a new, virulent case of Beatlemania in our household.  The newly remastered tracks sound awesome, and I’m pretty excited about picking up their new box set eventually.  Also, with Tasha working for Black & Read, we have a ready supply of actual used Beatles […]

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A few nights ago, I was up late per my normal processes.  The dog was begging to go outside, so I let him out.  Then he made a beeline to the cookie jar, which is what he normally does so I gave him one of his normal small “coming inside” cookies that he gets.  Some […]

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Last night Paul B and I went over to the Arvada dojo together.  Mr. Tarrant was very welcoming to Paul, allowing him to wear his gi and nidan to class.  The workout was the normal basics, partner drills, kata trifecta however we started out with some pretty hair-raising combinations. My favorite (and most difficult) of […]

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After a long, dreary day at the office I wasn’t really feeling like working out tonight.  Thankfully, Paul B came to the rescue and asked whether or not tonight would be a good night to visit our dojo.  So he’ll be joining us tonight to try Shotokan out! I’m looking forward to the workout, even […]

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My Digitech Brian May Red Special pedal arrived today!  I’ve gotten to play with most of the models and they sound pretty cool, I can’t wait for my new amp to show up so I can hear them on a decent tube amp.  The neat thing about the pedal is how you can control the […]

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