typing while I still can...

As much as I love my little electric guitar (and it does get the credit for getting me back into guitar, since the thin body let me play comfortably with my messed-up right shoulder and the easy action was kind to my fingers while I was re-learning), there are times that I'd really like to carry the absolute minimum of Stuff with me... bardic circles in the park... relaxacons... etc.

So I've been guitar-shopping for awhile now, trying to balance the need for a thin body, light weight, good acoustic sound and good sound when plugged in (since I won't ever assume that this will never need to be amplified, even though I don't normally play guitar w/ WM).

I kept finding that most of the shallow-body electric acoustics didn't have much projection when unplugged (or sounded thin), but then Brad showed up at a Mother Grove gig with a new guitar. It sounded wonderful through the PA, and it was thin! Not quite electric-guitar thin, but thinner by about an inch than a lot of the acoustics that I'd tried and rejected. I asked him how it sounded unplugged... he waxed rhapsodic for awhile... then I borrowed it and wandered off to a quiet corner.

( How I fell in love with a laminate guitar... )

So now I have a new baby, which of course has prompted me to do lots of practicing, which means that my left-hand fingertips now go "Ow!!" when I try to type.

(Oh... one last note... I wasn't being sarcastic about the helpful friendly sales-critter... he was wonderful (and I'm not usually a huge Sam Ash fan, so this was unexpected) and I'd recommend him to anybody looking to guitar-shop in the Indy area. Jonathan Martin at the Sam Ash in Castleton.)

Kaos has a home!!

Kaos has a new home!

An online friend of nycgadgetgirl's, Ami is adding Kaos to her family, so our girl's gonna have a real home! :-) She'll have a Shiba fur-sibling along with a couple of kitty friends, so life will be good.

This makes me very happy... and I'm wondering how long it will be before nycgadgetgirl's feet actually touch the ground again.

Yay for Kaos! And especially yay for Ami and her hubby for giving Kaos a permanent place to hang her leash.