Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The Callouses Are Coming Back

I've been playing guitar enough since the weekend that I can feel the callouses coming back. The rhythm line from Tangled Up in Blue is coming along now that I figured out a way to deal with the fingerpicking and strumming. I'm not taking any lessons, so it's all creativity on my part if I can't find an answer in a book. I should record and post a snippet this weekend.

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I finished my mail-in ballot this evening. Voting whether to retain judges is frustrating. It's difficult to find information to make an informed decision. There is a web site posting results of a large panel that evaluates them, but you have no choice but to take their word for it.

My presidential pick is something I will share. I'm so fed up with the whole government that I wrote in Jack Kemp's name. It's a throw-away vote, but I just couldn't bring myself to vote for Obaba or McCain. Alas.

2 comments:

^JR^ said...

I dabbled with guitar for a while. It was a lot of fun, I just didn't have the knack for it in the long run. I didn't have enough patience to learn the fundmentals and then enjoy playing for the fun of it. I was too worried about hitting the right fret at the right time.

I see on Amazon.com that IGMS has its first anthology coming out with some stories from the first few issues. Were you one of the lucky authors to get in?

^JR^

Rick Novy said...

I am not in the anthology. I've known about the anthology for quite some time now. Good stuff written by several of my friends are in it, though.