With the novel “done”, I am feeling at a loose end. I guess now I’ve got to concentrate on my real work. The last couple of months have been fun because I had something to concentrate on. It’s good to have a project going and giving it your total attention.
I’ve been thinking that I should be recording some more music now, but my muse just isn’t with me. I just can’t find a way back into that at the moment, which is a terrible shame as I have this fantastic new guitar. The Godin XTSA really is the guitar of my dreams. It does everything I want and has enough quirks to make you re-think your playing. For example, the marker dots on the neck are positioned so that you can’t see them clearly. With the neck scale being slightly shorter (I think) than my regular guitar and the fret markers off-centre, out of eye-line, I finding that I am making more mistakes when I play. I think this is good because it is making me refocus my mind slightly and pay more attention to my instrument, rather than just playing on auto-pilot.
I might even do a review of the instrument to put in my gear section. It truly is a wonderful instrument and I realise I should have bought a Godin a long, long time ago. I’ve also been thinking about doing another podcast, but I can’t think of a topic. The closest I came was to do a broadcast about looping and some of the techniques you can use to create ambient noodlings. I don’t know if this would be interesting enough though.
Of an evening, we managed to create a new game using the two dogs. The Missus goes ahead with my mother’s dog, Cappy, and me and Alex the Wonderdog give them a head start. Alex then bombs after them following the scent. Alex is not the best walker in the world, in fact he’d rather just lie on the sofa all day (yes, all day…that’s why we call him the Wonderdog because we wonder how he can be so lazy) and now Alex has found new vim and vigour chasing his tiny rival. Oh well, it passes the time.
Here’s a joke that we often tell about Alex the Wonderdog: if he had his own reality TV show it would be called Bone Idol. Think about it. 😉
Gratuitous Alex the Wonderdog shot because I know his cute looks always elicit a comment.