I started mowing the front yard a few minutes ago.  The weeds are out of control.  It’s been a couple of weeks since the last cut, and that is too long, but some of these suckers are tall enough for birds to start nesting.

I’ve cut half of half of the yard and my back hurts so much I had to sit for a few minutes.  This is kinda my life now.

Anyway, do you think that when the sun came up this morning that huge weed thought to itself, today is my last day on Earth for today is the day I die?

Neither do I.

Don’t ask what it is, or what it means. Don’t try to understand it. Just love it.

Look who I met when I left the house tonight.  What an asshole.

I threw a stick at him and it hit him.  He didn’t seem to mind though.  What a prick.

This lot is so full that we are parking on the grass… And it’s not even the right place.  The kids are in the next building over.  This is all overflow parking.  Aye carumba!

There was nothing wrong with our AC. It was just filters. My bad! We did get a new thermostat installed out of the deal though. Digital. Connected. (well, it will be once we get it on the wifi)

It’s nice and cool in here now! WOOHOO!

The upside here is that our central air conditioner didn’t go on the fritz on a night when we had a big graduation party.  That’s a positive, right?

We just lost power for about half a minute.  The local network took a while to come back, but when it did the Internet was still down.  Let’s get it together, Comcast.

One interesting item of note.  When you jump on the Internet of things bandwagon and start using connected light bulbs, and the local area network goes down because the power just went out… You can’t shut off the lights without going back to the light switches.  It’s like stone knives and bear skins all over again!

Also note:  typing this on my phone.  The AT&T cell network is still purring like a kitty.

Out of the blue…

At the start of band practice on Sunday everything was working fine. A couple of songs in though… the new Green Muff pedal started screwing up. It worked fine when it was on, but when it was off I lost all signal. I don’t think it’s buffered, so did something break lose in the bypass circuit? I need to mess with it before the next practice.

So what did that leave? I took the fuzz face off the board earlier that day. I still had the white Nano Muff pedal. I had so set my heart on having different fuzz settings for rhythm and lead that I didn’t want to just go with one sick ass setting. So what did I do?

One characteristic of a good fuzz pedal is the ability to tone down the noise by lowering the volume on the guitar itself. That worked out well. For rhythm I had both pickups on, but the neck volume was down almost completely. For leads I used the bridge pick up alone, full up.

It worked. Here’s proof:

I don’t ever want to have to do that again though. I may need to make another (effin’) purchase.