Tomorrow me and the lovely Blee will be moving closer to our commutes to work and into a lovely house (the flat was getting cramped)
Not much practicing or eventful programming on my part, but I am collaborating with a friend to make a doom metal themed christmas EP for the sake of irony, more details to follow.
Thursday began my long weekend, although it was not a good start – I messed up restringing my electric and so had to buy a new set of strings. On the upside however I inherited a beautiful seagull acoustic guitar and some chord/music books 
which is also being restrung, so I have been guitarless for a few days now. Gone for slightly thicker strings on both to get a stronger, more bluesy tone which should be good.
On the subject of music still, I went to listen to my good friend Phil play in his band (http://www.myspace.com/bengurionuk – Bengurion) they are very talented but for some reason aren’t getting many gigs. Maybe it is because Phil likes to dress up like austin powers when the rest of the group are actually co-ordinated…. Oh well. Still worth a listen 
Hopefully in my next post I will upload some mp3s of me messing around with Guitar Rig 3, I love playing about with guitar effects so it might be worth me putting some online.
And finally, I visited the local guitar shop to select my second guitar so I can set a budget and save up for it, after playing 4 or 5 guitars I decided that the Fender Jazzmaster is too awesome for me yet, and the next step is a Fender Lonestar Stratocaster, here’s a brief summary of what I played:
And now for the pictures!
So which one am I going to get? The Lonestar Strat (black one) best in its price range, and feels as though theres lots that can be unleashed from it once I get better.
Another busy week at work! This time developing huge stored procedures and linking them to huge bits of C# code in order to fill their huge amount of parameters, life is good…. But i digress
I recently watched Transformers 2 with my good friend Ian and I have to say – it is the only film that I’ve seen that I can safely say had too much action, it was a seemingly endless film (2 and a half hours!) of unending CG wankery, if you cut the human parts out you could have probably cut it down to 2 hours, 20 minutes. There were some mightily impressive scenes but it was far too long and just a little too annoying (ghetto-bots anyone?)
I gathered a bunch of interesting links too, mostly focusing on image processing and genetic algorithms in .NET which should help with my procedural texture generator. Notable ones are:
C# Tutorial – Convert a Color Image to Grayscale | Switch on the Code
In terms of guitar progress, I feel as though I’ve taken a step back, my chords have become a little sloppy. Probably due to me trying to force the changes too much. I will re focus my efforts and structure my practice sessions better, with the following structure:
A good point to remember of course is that I learned some more chords, bringing my total learned to 12! So thats: A, D, E, G, C, A Minor, D Minor, E Minor, G7, C7, B7 and Fmaj7. Lovely!
Can’t wait for tomorrow, and already booked some holidays next week to have a great 4-day weekend to do housework and preparing for the move.
Btw: Blee is lovely
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