So, I haven't updated in a little while. I haven't been doing TOO much, though.
Me and Erin: Our anniversary is on Sunday. 6 years is a long time, I guess... Einstein said, "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." I guess it's all relative. It really hasn't felt that long at all. Sure, we have disagreements, but I don't think it's possible to live with someone else and NOT disagree from time to time.
Work: I've been working. I worked on my first patent ever...it got filed, but we're waiting to see if it gets approved. I'm an inventor.
Hobbies: This has probably been the most active front.
A couple years back, Artie gave me an old bass (that was missing one tuning machine, the pots and jack), an old busted up strat-style guitar body and a birds-eye maple neck. I repaired the bass a long time back and it is easily one of the best-playing and best sounding basses I've played. I started work on that guitar body, sanded it down, did some minor repair-work on the wood, painted it a really nice blue color...I started to plan out all of the other components I needed and, just before placing my order, realized that the bridge mounting holes were WAAAY off. They were nowhere near where they needed to be. Also, the neck pocket is much too large for the neck. Because of these factors, I decided to shelf that project...but the neck is just so nice looking, I can't just NOT use it.
I did some research and decided I'll try my hand at building a Thinline Telecaster-style guitar. I was able to find some nice pine shelves at IKEA that I'll join together to make the proper thickness blank, then I'll work the body out. I'm mostly just hoping to get a decent amount of experience/knowledge from this, because I've always wanted to build a Jazzmaster-type guitar at some point in time, and this will let me know if it may or may not work out. I have also wound some pickups, as well...pretty decent sounding, I guess. Another thing I may do is try to reproduce that bass as closely as I can...It really is a great sounding instrument and I'd love to have a second. For these builds, though, I'm going to need a drill press, a router (my parents are giving me this) and maybe a milling machine (some parts on that bass will need to be fabricated).
I built Erin a Jar of Fireflies (a project I found on Instructables.com). Basically, it's a jar with some really tiny LEDs in it that blink like fireflies.
Oh, I also bought a flashcart for a Nintendo DS (and the DS itself). I had to replace the battery in the GBA expansion card, though...it's a solder-in battery, but I was able to just tape the contacts to a new battery (because the little socket I made didn't fit...there's just NO space inside that thing).
Music: Kerstan has had a few shows and they've gone really well, for the most part. He asked me to play a show with him next Friday, so I'll be doing that. I'm going to play guitar while he plays drums, though, so I've got some learning to do. I think I'm only going to be playing the last 1/3 or so of the set, so it's not TOO much stuff. Plus, being forced to practice so much (I played for nearly 3 or 4 hours last night...and about 2 or so on Monday) I can already see some improvement.
Other: I've been entertaining the thought of reading more books again. I'm almost done with The Man Who Laughs and will probably need something else soon. Kerstan's girlfriend left The Invisible Man at his apartment...maybe I'll pick up a copy of that and give it a read.
There are other books I've seen and wanted to read (House Of Leaves is one of them). Some are just absurd (like "Satan Burger" which Amazon suggested when I added House of Leaves to a wishlist so I won't forget it). I don't know when I'll get around to it, but I used to love reading and would like to get into that again.
Posting is very tedious sometimes. I hope you're happy, Amber.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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