"...Cuz Now I'm Hiiiiiiiiii-iiiiiiigh..."
another week complete. work's been pretty slow. actually did quite a bit of reading and phone answering, so i won't go into any details on that. well, one person did tell me that my boss better call her back or she was coming after him. *dunt-a-nuuuuh* (old-school oregon trail fans? anyone??)
so after my jogging last night i got together with another buddy from the music department, and we ate pizza and stuff and watched movies. actually, we only ate pizza. not "and stuff." but that's neither here nor there. that reminds me of something that bugs me. i have to admit i have a few mild pet peeves. mostly they're just private jokes i have with myself that amuse me almost to the point of irritation. i discovered one of them is when someone uses only the first half of the saying, "six of one, half a dozen of the other." should we do it this way? or that way. ooooooooh... six to one. huh? are you saying that one option is exactly 6 times better than the other? another one is the notion that nauseated and nauseous are interchangeable. "i feel nauseous!" yeah, makes me sick just looking at you. therefore... if you see me grinning at you while you're complaining about your illness it could be merely a case of the funnies over your grammarical incorrectness...
and if you think you're one of those people and you now feel irate... it's ok. really. i still love you.
come on. relax. i didn't mean any harm!
so we ate pizza. since when does papa johns make square pizzas??? has it been that long since i've eaten from there? like, not square cuts, but an actual square pizza. weird. while we were at hastings renting a movie i saw a guy from my poli sci class who sat a few chairs down from me, next to his pregnant wife (girl friend probably). he used to have really long hair and characteristically wide, intense eyes. he apparently had practice for some rough sport immediately prior to class, if his clothing and condition of cleanliness were any indication. he opened the door in front of me and i grinned at him and he grinned back and asked, "heeeey dude, are you high?" i was like, "what?" "are you high." "uh, no..." "oh, you're eyes are pretty red." i guess there's gotta be a first time for everything. i mean... for having questions like that asked... not for being high... you get me. many long years ago, when my dad had long hair, people used to ask him the same thing. they'd see him and start getting real friendly. like, a complete stranger would come over all happy like and being buddy-buddy. then in a loud whisper, "heeeey, so you got anything on ya man?"
i also kind of like james blunt's songs.
"will you be my shoulder? when i'm gray and older?"
my guitar top and back have completed another stage of development. they have all the inlays finished (rosewood strip down the back, rosette on top) and the sound hole and overall shape have been cut out. they're also sanded down to thinness. next they're going to start curing in the bathro... i mean humidity control center. we'll mark the bracing patterns on them though they can't be attached until they've been in the chamber for a couple of weeks. we also re-glued the neck on my 12-string hondo i got from james (not james blunt). it should be ready to be restrung by next week. we're going to convert it to a 6 string and i shall begin learning to actually play the instrument that i'm making. right now i know all of 3 chords. it's amazing when i play them...
gotta skeedaddle. byes
so after my jogging last night i got together with another buddy from the music department, and we ate pizza and stuff and watched movies. actually, we only ate pizza. not "and stuff." but that's neither here nor there. that reminds me of something that bugs me. i have to admit i have a few mild pet peeves. mostly they're just private jokes i have with myself that amuse me almost to the point of irritation. i discovered one of them is when someone uses only the first half of the saying, "six of one, half a dozen of the other." should we do it this way? or that way. ooooooooh... six to one. huh? are you saying that one option is exactly 6 times better than the other? another one is the notion that nauseated and nauseous are interchangeable. "i feel nauseous!" yeah, makes me sick just looking at you. therefore... if you see me grinning at you while you're complaining about your illness it could be merely a case of the funnies over your grammarical incorrectness...
and if you think you're one of those people and you now feel irate... it's ok. really. i still love you.
come on. relax. i didn't mean any harm!
so we ate pizza. since when does papa johns make square pizzas??? has it been that long since i've eaten from there? like, not square cuts, but an actual square pizza. weird. while we were at hastings renting a movie i saw a guy from my poli sci class who sat a few chairs down from me, next to his pregnant wife (girl friend probably). he used to have really long hair and characteristically wide, intense eyes. he apparently had practice for some rough sport immediately prior to class, if his clothing and condition of cleanliness were any indication. he opened the door in front of me and i grinned at him and he grinned back and asked, "heeeey dude, are you high?" i was like, "what?" "are you high." "uh, no..." "oh, you're eyes are pretty red." i guess there's gotta be a first time for everything. i mean... for having questions like that asked... not for being high... you get me. many long years ago, when my dad had long hair, people used to ask him the same thing. they'd see him and start getting real friendly. like, a complete stranger would come over all happy like and being buddy-buddy. then in a loud whisper, "heeeey, so you got anything on ya man?"
i also kind of like james blunt's songs.
"will you be my shoulder? when i'm gray and older?"
my guitar top and back have completed another stage of development. they have all the inlays finished (rosewood strip down the back, rosette on top) and the sound hole and overall shape have been cut out. they're also sanded down to thinness. next they're going to start curing in the bathro... i mean humidity control center. we'll mark the bracing patterns on them though they can't be attached until they've been in the chamber for a couple of weeks. we also re-glued the neck on my 12-string hondo i got from james (not james blunt). it should be ready to be restrung by next week. we're going to convert it to a 6 string and i shall begin learning to actually play the instrument that i'm making. right now i know all of 3 chords. it's amazing when i play them...
gotta skeedaddle. byes
posted by quirky at 10:35 AM
14 Comments:
Can you believe that I'm reading your blog? Why, you ask yourself, would such a strange and obituary thing happen??
Back on the ranch, sveet big post! Pretty funny too. That's all for now (but someday I'll be baaaaaaaack).
__amy
Hey,
Cool post.
So, are you ready for me to bring Book 7 in on monday, or should I leave it at home? Don't matter to me. It's 6 to 1. -G-
Turtle
I love the bit about the humidity control center...sounds a lot like my dad's personal darkroom of his high school years. :)
What three chords do you know, thus far? D, G, and A perhaps? (That's just where I would have started.) :) I'm sure your preliminary work is sounding great. Perhaps I can recommend one of my favorite 3-chorded songs. :)
Take care!
I do G,D, and E, it fills my heart with pride to hear them resonate through my room. Which is especially odd considering the fact that I can't properly tune the stupid thing, so it sounds something like a dying walrus, anyway,
taTa old chap
That's right, it's a humidity CONTROL center. Odd that it should be in a bathro..., er, upstairs, right?
Steve
actually, the chords i know are E, e, and G. i used to know D and C, but i don't recall the fingering.
you may feel quite free to recommend any songs you like, and i may or may not play them when i learn those chords. emphasis on the latter.
'kay, y'all have a good week now. ;-)
'Sounds as though you're off to a great start! :) (The fingering will "come back to you 'ere long; don't worry.) I think I'm feeling inspired suddenly to post all my favorite songs. On the other hand, such a project could end up requiring several chronicles. :) I'll see what the day may bring!
Take care of yourself, and have a good week, too!
i will. thanks. you too. and i'm looking forward to seeing your list. i'm not typically much of a list maker, unless i get in a strange mood, but i'm pretty good at reading other people's lists.
it also occurred to me to comment about the captain's comment. how, may i ask, is reading my blog a "strange and obituary thing." a small voice is telling me something. what's that? quote from prince's bride? yeah, "i don't think that word means what you think it means..." ;)
You know E, e and G? Is that like e major and e minor or is it really only 2 chords? If you want to learn a third or fourth chord, I'll be glad to help. Of course, your guitar maker mentor could probably show you a thing or 2 too. I'm thinking that the captain, knowing the literary background from which she sprung, realized she said obituary and was just trying to bait us. What do think you?
Papa
Hmm, obituary is now so deeply engrained into my being that I have to think think think to remember what it came from.... hmm... James Thurber? I think that's right. Sounds like it's from The White Deer, which is true greatness and should be on the mandatory reading list of everyone over the age of 4 and under the age of 117). "'Obituary, is that even a word?' 'I think so, but when you say it, it does sound rather meaningless.'" or something like that. Wow, I'm a nerd.
arbitrary? perhaps? We'd be in pretty bad shape if an obituary was needed. The only reason I would know is because my Grandmother used to work for funeral homes in her latter years. :)
and then did her name at last appear in an obituary?
and yes, papa, you could indeed show me some chords. if i could only ever see you. course, the weekends are sufficient for a bit of guitar playing. also you very cleverly figured out what E and e mean. upper and lower case are standard abbreviations for major and minor.
and i like your picture captain! is this the first time your actual face has ever graced your profile? now that you're so far away perhaps it will help us remember what you look like. :-P
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