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Prep-Time Part 1

Practice is at 6:00 tonight. A little after 1:00 I did some prep work. The Les Paul hasn’t been played in a few months and the strings were rusted and grimy. I took off the strings and gave the neck a serious wiping down. It helped, but it’s not perfect. I need to polish it but can’t find my bottle of goop right now.  
I put on a new set of strings and played through my homework (four songs) a few times. I played sitting and standing, and all four new songs sit around the 2nd fret, which is usually what triggers the pain. No problems at all. Maybe I just need to relax when I play with other people around.
We are going to eat dinner soon. After that I will play again for another 45 minutes or so. I’m also planning to bring a bottle of Advil to practice too. Hopefully all of this combined will keep me mostly pain free tonight and I’ll actually be able to focus on playing the damn guitar as well as I can for a change.

Wild Kingdom

Remember this date everyone.  September 20, 2015 at 6:45am.  We had our first deer sighting of the season.   A doe, a deer, a female deer in the yard at the tree line.  Just hanging out, doing what ever deer do.  The groundhog also made an appearance at about 7:55am, but he suddenly is less impressive.  Wild deer will do that to a rodent, you know?

I wonder what other exotic wild forest beasts will be visiting us today?

Determination

Oh yeah, I will play better at tomorrow’s practice.  I will.  Oh I will.

I’m taking a different guitar.  Not because the 335 had anything to do with last week’s trouble, but because karma and the cosmos and shit.  Yeah, Robbo’s on the desperate side.

   
 
And while I still haven’t shelled out the $1500 for a Fender Twin Reverb, I do still have a software simulation of a Fender Twin Reverb.  

  

Mini To-Do List for Saturday

Here is a mini sized to-do list for today.

1. Get donuts for the wife and kids.
Done
2. Get the guitar playing step son to his band practice.
3. Go grocery shopping.
4. Learn a bunch of new songs for my band practice tomorrow
a. The keyboard part at the end of “Just What I Needed” by The Cars
b. “You May Be Right” by Billy Joel. Mike and I played this one in high school so it’s more like re-learning it for us.
c. “Creep” by Radiohead.
d. “Fine Again” by Seether.
e. Figure out that awful Michael Jackson thing that I was noodling over by ear last week but should probably learn the actual changes and play right. I guess.
5. Practice the guitar so I (hopefully) won’t suck as bad as last week.
6. Most important of all, watch Avengers 2 with the kids! (WOOOHOO!)
7. Second most important of all, watch another episode of Agent Carter with the kids.