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l 30 2009 tell me about the good old days i m pretty excited about the new guitar i just bought my wife and i have decided to not spend any money that we don t have and definitely not on frivolous things such as toys so i sold my motorcycle that i haven t ridden since jackson was born i called a local mechanic so that i could get the bike back in running condition since the throttle was sticking and it was leaking gas when i told him what kind of bike it was and that it was in otherwise mint condition with less than 10k miles on the engine he decided to buy it himself we made a deal after some haggling back and forth something i totally suck at by the way but in the end i think i got a pretty good price for it so my with my wallet loaded i decided that this money was all mine it wasn t for paying the bills or doing something really responsible like an adult would treat it nope for the first time since i was a bachelor i was going shopping for boy toys there was also a sentimental aspect to this train of thought although i didn t ride that motorcycle anymore which i gave up because i wanted my children to have a father when they reached puberty i still loved that bike i know it sounds corny but that bike was my buddy we toured california together down highway 1 from san francisco to la to palm desert sequoia national park lake tahoe yosemite we learned the streets of san francisco together and took in the breathtaking views from twin peaks and the overlook across the golden gate and into the wetlands beyond when i signed over the title to the mechanic i took what i knew was going to be my last look at the bike he patted me on the shoulder because he just knew so i have to respect how i spend every cent of the money i sold her for i ve been a big fan of brent mason who is a nashville session guitarist you can pretty much hear him on any album recorded by any country artist in the 90 s his sound defies imitation and i had long since given up even trying but of late i ve been seeing youtube videos here and there of guitarists that play a style called chicken pickin which is brent s style as well youtube is an incredible source of guitar lessons and there are resources that enable you to copy a youtube video locally to your computer and free software that will scrape the audio from a video into an mp3 file on top of that there is software such as the amazing slow downer that will slow down a recording without altering the pitch meaning it plays just like the recording only slower just as if the artist was playing it slower for you it really is as advertised totally amazing i noticed that almost all the chicken pickers have telecaster guitars i asked my guitar instructor why that is and he pulled his out and let me play it telling me that you just get more pop and bend out of the strings than you get with a stratocaster which i already have so long story short i spend seven hundred dollars of my motorcycle money on a new tele and i totally love it ninety more went to mr doug seven he s a brent mason enthusiast and he publishes videos on how to play in that style i m on disk 1 of four working on riff one of around nine it s insanely fast ok so the point of all this it all goes back to the early days of life when my grandma rose would listen to me sing along with the radio she asked me to make a cassette tape for her so she could listen to me some more and i always told her i would now i m 45 and still haven t done it so i spent two hundred more dollars on a tascam recorder that will facilitate the recording of my guitar and voice and whatever else into the computer i have to figure that out still but i ve got everything i need now to make it happen the only question left was which song to start with i ve decided on the judds song called grandpa tell me about the good old days or some variation of that title i m going to change grandpa to grandma and give it a go a long time ago i tried to figure out what the guitarist was doing with the main riff but it was beyond me picking around with it yesterday suddenly i know exactly what he is doing it s really such a pretty sounding song if you ve never heard it before look it up if you ve ever thought that life was simpler in your grandparents day when families stuck together through good times and bad and a man s word and a handshake was all the assurance you needed then this song will resonate with you posted by scott at 9 46 am 16 comments tuesday march 17 2009 colossal blunder i don t know if i have the courage to tell you about every fax pas i ve committed in my lifetime so far but i have to tell you what happened to me yesterday a friend of mine i ll call him oniondude from the last company i worked at likes to send me links from the onion which many of you know about already i don t find it particularly funny most of the time satire has to be done with just the right touch and i don t often appreciate what i read there it s sort of ironic because i can laugh from the start of top secret to the end especially the exploding pinto scene earlier in the day i had been working on a tough issue at work and the newest addition to our software development team i ll call her mary happens to have had some experience in the arena i was investigating and she sent me her notes on how to set up my software tools to do what i needed them to do it worked wonderfully and i would have been sunk without her so at 5 30pm after finally getting everything up and running i wrote an instant message to her it works wahoooo no reply i was thinking it was after five and she had gone home twenty minutes later oniondude sends me an onion link entitled houston rockets catch tracy mcgrady masturbating to tape of his 41 point performance i didn t bother to read it and was going to ignore it but he wrote me back that is great ok he wanted a reaction i typed i would masturbate to my own perfomance too not sure how long it would take to wear off a minute later did you mean to send that to me i m not getting it sorry huh i looked at the im screen it was mary who had replied our previous conversation having overlaid the one i was having with oniondude i felt a thousand sizzling hot prickles on my face oh my goodness i am sooo sorry it was replying to a friend about an onion article don t worry no prob just making sure it wasn t some new fangled programming joke i m glad you have a sense of humor i would never do that out of the blue that s going down in my history of big whopping blunders and the list is pretty long already definitely i like have a laugh well if you don t have a list of blunders you may not be living life fully can you imagine what could have happened if she weren t so cool my god my legs were shaking after the adrenaline wore off i thought i was going to get fired for sure so does anyone care to share a similar story feel free to post about it and put a link in the comments posted by scott at 10 18 am 9 comments tuesday march 10 2009 snow business my wife told me i should write this down and my preschooler thought it was funny enough to tell his teacher about so it s at least worth committing to my blog i ve been a little skeptical about global warming lately not that i m discounting it or even changing my pattern of conservational behavior but it s been so dang cold this winter and the snow has been relentless i m sick of it my snow blower has been on the fritz ever since i ran over a stick and took out the right front blades technically it still works but i have to go over everything twice it s of significant importance that i keep the face of our driveway clean since it slopes for a stretch of fifteen to twenty feet to the street and ours is a blind driveway which roughly translated means you never really know if some crazy teenager or boston commuter is coming until your headlamps kiss the median so this morning i had a bright idea i backed the saturn to the road s edge then parked the expedition bought before global enlightenment in front of it both vehicles spanning the incline the thinking here was to keep the snow from burying the incline so that i didn t have to shovel it sound thinking but just a bit too late since the snow had already coated the driveway but the expedition held fast so i made of ass of u and me when i decided it would remain so i went inside where my wife had the kids bundled up in winter coats boots hats and mittens from that vantage point i could see something didn t look right from the laundry room window i could have sworn that the expedition was not where i had parked it it appeared to be where the saturn used to be and sure enough the saturn was in the middle of the road with the trailer hitch of the expedition pinned under its bumper thankfully nobody hit it so i pulled the saturn into the neighbor s driveway when i picked emmett up from preschool the teachers laughed and told me about emmett s recounting of the story posted by scott at 8 52 am 11 comments thursday february 19 2009 apologies all around sort of i apologize for not responding to comments which has been a trend for me going on the order of months now i m in a transitional phase and i m not sure what s going to give my wife approached me with the idea that i might have attention deficit issues so i went to a doctor and he prescribed me some medicine that i am trying today for the first time i m already feeling something though i can t say for sure just what but so far this morning i have replied to three emails written two others that have been long overdue and my thoughts seem to be more focused on what i have to do distractibility is my biggest issue it seems that with my overwhelming workload lately that instead of focusing on getting it done i m getting nothing done at all as if the burden of wanting to write play guitar get my finances in order read play my games and be a kick ass awesome parent oh and be good at my job has become the weight of the earth squared and i ve dumped the whole thing by the way beth it was you i think thanks for turning me onto the short stories of f scott fitzgerald i finished gatsby but i have to say as much as i enjoyed it the short stories are to me infinitely better i can t stand being told someone is a great writer only to be annoyed with their florid use of the language fitzgerald is so not intimidating at all he can describe people with such ease and eloquence and follows the inner dialogue of people in so many situations he s so intuitive well i m just soaking it all in i ve promised myself that i will go back and reread it all and write down every line that moves me i m actually thinking of writing a program that will categorize the type of passage so that i can recall it later when i m looking for a way to say something sort of like and maybe just like the way you can attach labels to blog posts but this i want to have locally so i don t have to rely on blogspot to be around someday we re all going to lose everything we ve ever written in blogland my family life has been astoundingly wonderful i ve always been happy at home but happy in a way that is deferent to the way things were before i met my wife marriage isn t always easy and can sometimes be difficult but i ve never ever thought of throwing in the towel but there has been a change lately my wife is happier than she has ever been and her relationship with the kids has taken a joyous turn where before it could be strained it s mostly smooth and easy they laugh and play games while i m typing away at the keys the kids play with each other so nicely there are fights like you would always expect but nothing a little room time can t clear up like magic my kids are so well mannered i remember in the old days when jackson was only three how parents would warn me of times to come you ll see you just wait and it scared me even as i bravely told them and myself that it would be different for me because and i have to be frank here i knew that i was a better parent and that s not to say bad things don t happen to good parents because they do but good things happen to good parents too and there is a reward for doing things right my tenth anniversary was just last week we got a babysitter and went out at dinner i presented my wife with a diamond necklace that i got from macy s the day before funny story behind that but i ll stay on track the drugs are kicking in i told her that i was glad that she was the mother of my children she waved it off and said i m the sure thing but i pressed on the truth is like helen hunt to jack nicholson she doesn t just make me want to be a better man she makes me a better man without her i would be lost all my dreams my hopes my aspirations would be nothing without her she s the first and last part of everything i need and that s the truth happy tenth baby posted by scott at 9 02 am 11 comments monday january 26 2009 the great gatsby i m currently reading f scott fitzgerald s the great gatsby i know this is the pop culture equivalent of discovering that darth vader is luke s father but fitzgerald is an astounding writer normally i don t hear the genius in the work of others i m told by my peers that such and such is brilliant but i don t see it i see big vocabulary perceive theme like an unlocatable sound that bounces off walls understand that i m missing the metaphor and always wish i were more perceptive but this novel was written with me in mind i almost skipped it because i read a critique of fitzgerald s antiquated use of dialogue attribution and i see what he is doing and i don t care about that he said quickly so what i m learning that there are simply different tastes and no two pallettes the same and some people have become too smart for their own good it s the way fitzgerald uses light that floors me light brings the scene to life how it shines on the edge of a newspaper can t you just see that or illuminates a doorway take this for example for a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as i listened then the glow faded each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk does it get more perfect it does if you read on the living backdrop is a character too oh sure agreed wilson hurriedly and went toward the little office mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls wilson is colorless and bland unless i miss my guess his characters have traits that i recognize take this description of tom two shining arrogant eyes had established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat this got me thinking about my dad for some reason which th...