This will be mostly nonpoker content. Stop reading if poker is your thing. Hahaha.
I started learning the above song last night. It is one of my favorites and Hendrix is flat out amazing. I haven't had much time to play guitar, just like I haven't had much time to play poker. I have been pretty busy doing other things. However, the time I have had available to play guitar I have spent almost exclusively working on the pentatonic scale and learning the blues, which are entwined to a large degree. The 7th chords used in the blues really do add some color to songs, which is cool. I have a book that I am using to help learn the blues and I am taking it very seriously, making sure I have each lesson down, understood, memorized by learning the reasons why, before moving on to the next lesson. Like anything in life, there is no point in moving on until you truly grasp the lesson at hand. It is especially important with beginners. Learn progressions and scales and chords and then think about learning something else. It's no different than focusing on truly understanding pot before learning implied odds before learning REM. Same idea.
I bought a new guitar yesterday morning, since I got a sick deal on it. I was trying to hold off until my birthday in June. But guess what? Fail. It is an acoustic by Ibanez that I can add to my collection, which has two electric guitars, an Epiphone and a Fender. The Fender sucks, because it is a bundle pack starter guitar. Here are pics.
Other things have been mostly house and kids related. I primed and painted the upstairs room a pastel green, which will be a play room for the kids. It is spacious, so it will allow them to crawl around and go nuts. Good times.
I also built them a toy chest. It did not turn out close to as good as I wanted, but it will do I suppose. I will put pics of it up when I get a chance. This has taken a ton of my time, but it is pretty cool. The front of it is a chalkboard. I used chalkboard paint on the front to make the front a chalboard. I rounded off edges with a buddy's router, and Jasmine needs to make the cushion for the top of the toy chest. I added some safety features, since I am a nerd. The front has an area under the lid cut away and rounded off, so they can't pinch their fingers. It also features slow-closing hinges so they don't hit their head (hit it hard at least, hahaha).
I did get a round of golf in. Considering how little I get to play anymore, I was pretty happy with my play. My score sucked, I shot an 87, but my ball striking was not poor. I just couldn't hole a putt. My chipping was actually pretty good as well. Story of the round. 545-yard par 5 12th went as follows:
- [x] Hit 320-yard drive
- [x] Hit a beautiful draw 225-yard 3-iron over water to 7 feet
- [ ] Get putt to the hole
It was a downhill slick putt, but ffs, get it to the hole. It is okay to run it 2 feet by. It is not okay to leave it 6 inches short.
NHL playoffs will start soon. No one wants to play the red hot Wings. they struggled with loads of injuries all year long and would still be fighting for a 2-seed in the pathetic East. Yowza.
Baseball has started. Red Sox suck. Go Tigers.
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