Yup, that’s a chicken in the neighbor’s yard.

Two of them, actually.

Moved it a little further away from the grill.  After nearly a week of rain there sure was a lot of water pooled up on the roof.  Good to know.

Every morning I peek out the window and make sure the gazebo is still there.  Yup, still there.  Today when I looked there was a squirrel inside. He crawled underneath the screen.  I was hoping he’d get stuck and I’d get some revenge for all that stolen birdseed.  Nope, the little shit managed to escape.  Oh well.

Patches the kitty cat:  Zero fucks given.

I had all kinds of equipment troubles at practice last Sunday.  So much so it derailed the entire thing.

I set everything up exactly the same way this morning before work and it all worked perfectly.  What the hell is going on?

So I used the time I had allotted for troubleshooting to run two tube amplifiers in stereo… like some kinda bad ass.

 

I do not kill with my gun.  I kill with my heart.

So much yes.  So very much yes.

Thanks to my father in law, Sherman, we have a gazebo on the patio.  It is awesome.

Check out this video.  It shows the point of view of a photon of light traveling from the surface of the sun to Jupiter.  In real time.  Meaning it takes a couple of minutes to get to Mercury.  It takes a couple more to get to Venus.  It takes more than four minutes to go from Earth to Mars.  The only negative I’ve found so far (I just passed Mars) is that it uses Vesta to represent the inner asteroid belt, not Ceres.  It should have used Ceres.  Ceres is awesome sauce.

 

Addendum: It uses Vesta AND Ceres!  Awesome!  It’s also 45 minutes long so there is no way I’m watching this to the end tonight!  WOOHOO

So after work today I took my new fuzz pedal for a spin.  The pedal is a clone of the original Electro Harmonix Big Muff fuzz pedal which started production in 1969 or ’70 or so (the version with the knobs arranged in a triangle).

How does it sound?  Well for starters, it makes the current EHX Big Muffs sound like cow shit.  I mean no disrespect to the current models.  I love those suckers too, it’s just that this one blows them off the face of the Earth with the force of a 100 billion megaton nuclear bomb.

It took the tone from my little 15 watt Fender amp and wrapped it in a thick, wooly, blanket of mean and nasty and wonderfulness.

I might be in the honeymoon phase of an expensive purchase, but I really like the way this thing sounds.

Dove chocolate has validated my musical philosophy.  

Thanks, Dove chocolate!