"Conventional wisdom says to know your limits. To know your limits you need to find them first. Finding your limits generally involves getting in over your head and hoping you live long enough to benefit from the experience. That's the fun part." - Drew Marold

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Picking up the guitar again

I have tried off and on since I was in high school to learn to play the guitar. A couple of weeks ago, I got the bug again. I pulled out the old acoustic guitar and tuned it up. I've pulled out some old lesson sheets from when I was taking lessons from an instructor and been playing around with it ever since. Maybe this time it will stick. Who knows. I did go out today to a music store and picked up a spare set of strings, some extra picks and a strap.

I've got a pretty major project for the next week, but after that I hope to try to dedicate some real time to learning. If I can stick with it for a month or two, I'll spring for some lessons from a teacher again. In the meantime, I'm getting a new desk this weekend so I'm busy packing up my whole office so I can move out my old desk, bring in the new one, put it together and set everything back up. The only bad part is that since I work from home, the bulk of the work will have to all be done during the two days I'm off so I have a place to work. If I haven't thrown out my back or smashed all my fingers by next week, I'll try to post more.