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Good things, Fifth of July
Jul. 5th, 2015 08:26 pm1. I had two good dates in two nights, did Science! on both, finally got to show Meowse my beautiful ukulele, and discovered D. Wendell has the world's cuddliest goat. Seriously, that goat is secretly a dog.
2. I am hiring a personal assistant for two hours a week to get my paperwork life under control. This will force me to get things in good enough order for the assistant to do the less personal bits. Fingers crossed for changing bad patterns of several decades.
3. In pursuit of this, this morning I started a load of laundry and did about 20 minutes of room cleaning with no panicking at all. I hope this keeps up at least long enough to excavate.
4. I took the cat for a walk yesterday evening and we only heard a few distant pops so she didn't freak out. It was a lovely walk. (I take the cat out to our back yard on a harness and a long lead, so she can smell everything and fantasize about being allowed to murder birds again.)
5. Ukulele satisfaction!
On advice from several people I went ahead and ordered a second uke, a Rainbow Dash colored Makala Dolphin. General received wisdom is, "If you're only going to spend <$50 on an ukulele, get this one. Really." So now I have a recruiter uke which I can take on my trip to Amsterdam without worrying about it, annnnnnnnd
that means I can tune my more expensive one to Low-G!* J and I walked down to our friendly local instrument store today and picked up a new ukulele string for me, and we did not die of heat.
* Standard ukulele tuning is "reentrant," which means that what would usually be the lowest note is tuned an octave higher. Search "my dog has fleas" and you'll hear how the notes are arranged.
Low-G tuning means taking that octave-high slot and tuning it low instead, so the notes are lined up in order like on a guitar. There are advantages to both, so a common source of Ukulele Acquisition Syndrom (UAS) is "but I need a second one for Low-G!"
2. I am hiring a personal assistant for two hours a week to get my paperwork life under control. This will force me to get things in good enough order for the assistant to do the less personal bits. Fingers crossed for changing bad patterns of several decades.
3. In pursuit of this, this morning I started a load of laundry and did about 20 minutes of room cleaning with no panicking at all. I hope this keeps up at least long enough to excavate.
4. I took the cat for a walk yesterday evening and we only heard a few distant pops so she didn't freak out. It was a lovely walk. (I take the cat out to our back yard on a harness and a long lead, so she can smell everything and fantasize about being allowed to murder birds again.)
5. Ukulele satisfaction!
On advice from several people I went ahead and ordered a second uke, a Rainbow Dash colored Makala Dolphin. General received wisdom is, "If you're only going to spend <$50 on an ukulele, get this one. Really." So now I have a recruiter uke which I can take on my trip to Amsterdam without worrying about it, annnnnnnnd
that means I can tune my more expensive one to Low-G!* J and I walked down to our friendly local instrument store today and picked up a new ukulele string for me, and we did not die of heat.
* Standard ukulele tuning is "reentrant," which means that what would usually be the lowest note is tuned an octave higher. Search "my dog has fleas" and you'll hear how the notes are arranged.
Low-G tuning means taking that octave-high slot and tuning it low instead, so the notes are lined up in order like on a guitar. There are advantages to both, so a common source of Ukulele Acquisition Syndrom (UAS) is "but I need a second one for Low-G!"
