Moving the Blog

I found one of my old blogs again. I am going to go back to using it over this one. You can find it at:  http://dimensionaltear.blogspot.com/

Hope to see you there!

Dave

Business, Busyness

It's been a rather busy couple of weeks for me with no end in sight really; the business will simply have different sources for a while. 

Tailgate season has officially started here in central Michigan and with MSU having mostly home games in the first half it will make for a very busy few weeks at Troppo. ESPN has started their catering for the season which brings us a lot of business and goes straight through Basketball season as well. Things are starting to pick up for the school year in the dining room as well. We have 4 or 5 private parties tomorrow night and a fair amount on the books aswell. Good to be getting hours again.

I've also been helping move my Church to a new building for the last couple weeks which has been a huge project, especially since I am in charge of the a/v stuff there. For the most part I can keep it all to just the sound people taking care of things, but needing to procure a few new things has made it a much longer process than it needed to be. 

It's one of those things where we are a younger Church with not a whole ton of liquid assests so we try to get things donated when possible and that takes loger than just going out and purchasing it. On a positive note my cousin has donated a CD duplicator, which I had wanted to make the prduction of cd's for our workers easier. These things typically cost from $500 to $1000  so getting it donated is a life saver as I probably would not have been able to get one otherwise.

On top of all that I have spent the last week or so trying to wrap my head around why Rob is doing what he is doing in a lesson, but it's just not quite making it in there.. Hopfully soon I will have an epiphany there...

Sausage Fingers?

I've been playing guitar for what seems like ages now. I started when I was 12 or so, took a break until I started college. I've been playing since then (2002,) but it's been mostly simple chord progressions for praise and worship with various religious organizations I have been associated with.

About a year or so ago I decided I wanted to maybe try and actually get good at it, then I took a job as a chef here in Lansing for the company I work for. That put a damper on things. I have again decided, as I have more free time now, that I am actually going to do it God willing.

I've been studying with a gentleman by the name of Rob Bourassa, when I do have time, via his youtube videos. We've talked a good bit since I started and he's a great guy and awesome instructor, I just need to be able to apply myself. It's been going well for the last week or so, but I've come to a couple of conclusions: I have really big, boney fingers and I either need a new guitar or serious work on the one I have.

My fingers are an issue as my guitar has the smaller of the two normal nut widths (1 11/16") which makes it hard to play some of the normal chords (such as A, which is three strings right next to each other on the same fret) properly with the broom handles attached to my hands. The problem comes when I try to fit about 2 inches of finger in 1 1/2 inches of space. The classic 10 pounds of crap, five pound box scenario. I suppose this means I need to find a way to play them barred, which means I need to work on barring with the side of my fingers more and not the relitivley fleshy pads of my fingers. This should be either fun, or painful, or maybe both. We will see.

Happy Picking.