Monday, April 09, 2007

Monday updates

Way to start the week off on a bad foot. I was supposed to be working the 12-8 shift today, but forgot all about that until I got to work at my usual time. So, instead of still being home in bed, I will be working 8-8. Oops.
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But I did have possibly the greatest Easter dinner last night. Did dinner over at Krista and Joe's, with some peeps. On the menu: (traditional Easter) ham, glazed in some kind of orange sauce, mashed potatoes, carrots marinated in ginger ale, and a green bean casserole thing. Topped off with some variations on a mojito which featured either rum, vodka, or gin and topped with ginger beer. (The type of alcohol didn't matter as much, since the ginger beer was the dominant taste, but having had one of all three variations, I can say the gin was the best, because you did taste that one the most, and the gin and ginger beer tastes were complimnetary.)

But, even having had Sunday dinners at K & J's before, this was probably the best, merely from the standpoint of deliciousness.
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I've begun the new gear acquiring. Picked up a new (used) Telecaster for relatively cheap money. I'll be playing around with it for a few weeks before I bring it in to have it set up, so I can decide whether or not to stay stock or upgrade the pickups. Also, I picked up my Holy Grail reverb pedal (which in turn will likely prompt me to build myslef a pedal board soon, as moving these things around will be a lot easier with one.)

That's what I've picked up so far. I still have about $300 in the gear fund left over from selling the Mesa Boogie head (which, by the way, update: I did. I sold it on Thursday to the first guy who came to take a look at it. That was surprisingly easy.) And hopefully I'll be able to add another $300-$350 from selling my cab soon. With that, I can go two ways.

1) The way I SHOULD go: a new (used) acoustic. There was a Takamine at the same store that I bought the Tele at that was pretty good. Deeper, fuller body than the Takamine I currently have, better wood, fuller sounding, but still clear, and only $400. And then a new (hopefully used to save money) Fender Blues Jr. amp. That will be my practice at home and backup amp should anything happen to my Tophat (god forbid.) My other guitar player has one and it sounds pretty good, so I'll probably go that route myself (unless I were able to find another used Tophat at ridiculously cheap, "I don't know what I have, so I'm underselling it" money.) This is the way I should go. The responsible way.

2) The way I sort of want to go, but shouldn't. We'll still go with the new acoustic. But after that, instead of the amp, go with perhaps another pedal (a univibe?) and a cheap either mandolin or banjo. Buying the amp is more responsible, because I should have a backup, and honestly I'd end up doing it sooner or later either way, but with gigging potential soon, I should do it sooner and be prepared. But the heart wants what the heart wants, and right now it wants a mandolin/banjo. Which is totally silly because, aside from learning either, I can't forsee a lot of places where they'd get used in current songs. You can overuse either pretty quickly.
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And lastly, me and my roommate went and looked at an apartment on Saturday. We still haven't heard anything definitive about the status of our house/apartment, but are preparing for the (better) chance that we will have to move. This apartment looking Saturday was very spur of the moment. Although we haven't gotten any recent updates from our landlord, we were both sitting on the couch looking at apartments on Craigslist on Saturday morning. We ended up seeing a listing for a three bedroom in Cambridge that was actually in our price range, (albeit at the very top of it.) So, we called the guy and he offered to show it to us that morning.

Sure, it was a total shithole. But the more important aspect to this story is just more of the realization that we're probably going to have to go through this process soon. We have to gear up for it. On one hand I'm not looking forward to it, but that's just because I'm not looking forward to the actual act of having to move. On the other, I am, because I no longer have to worry about who I'm living with, (that's apparently already been answered), and I'm looking forward to trying to find a place with that thing I've coveted since I moved to Medford: an actual outdoor porch for grilling and beer drinking. Who'd've thought that this would be such a selling point for me, but there you have it. If we have to move, it'll probably be by or during the summer and if we're able to find a place with just such a porch, it'll be right in the prime season for beer drinking and grilling. And that is definitely worth looking forward to.

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