Category: General

So yesterday I turned the big 32. I didn’t feel old until I started saying it! It’s weird how you can be a full grown guy with a family, house, dog, 2 cars, etc., and still feel like you’re a complete knucklehead. That’s the human condition, I suppose. My wife …

Oops, in my last entry I forgot to be explicit about what was so weird about that e-mail — I never sent such an animal. It was returned to me but someone else sent the original e-mail… hmm. Anyway, writing in to also note that last night Eleya and I …

For the second time in a few weeks, I’ve had a really weird e-mail returned to me (it’s going to Hotmail because that’s where my jennyboyle-dot-net service forwards my mail). If there’s anyone reading this blog, who’s using AOL and might have my jennyboyle-dot-net address hanging around in their system, …

Thanks to a helpful message on a listserv where I’m a member, I got a link to The AX84 Project, which is all about homemade tube amp building. The documentation is fantastic and also a lot of knowledgeable people there tell you why turning a 50-watt amp up to deafening …

We finally put some deck furniture up, so now we are fully prepared for summer cookouts! I had a fantastic weekend just having a lot of family time (much of it spent running back and forth to Wal-Mart, but hey, wherever you can get it). The baby was in very …

Congratulations to my friends Brent and Leslie, who just had twin boys last night, Nicholas and Alexander. I haven’t seen Brent since my college years but I still hear about the big news when it hits the papers! Also, I fixed the link below to the Triumph film, which is …

A nice practice day today. I didn’t do many fundamentals, but I worked on doing some improvisation, trying to hold down a moving chord structure and keeping time with the left hand, while letting the right hand find a melody. Then I worked on trying to actually craft a melody …

I am really boggled by my new VF-1. I’m going to sit down tonight and read the instruction manual so I can figure out some programming strategies for it. I did manage to get my EQ’s set up last night to ensure that my bass and melody sides sound roughly …

Today we’re bringing the baby and going to Charlottesville to visit some friends who just moved there. It’s funny, I’ll feel like I’m skipping class if I go down without getting a lesson from Greg. ? Over the weekend we saw The Others and What Women Want. The first movie …

OK, so I discovered the POD thing is documented on page 5-4 of the manual. But it’s still pretty cool. I set up a bank of patches where I can start and overdub a loop, play over it on the same side without overdubs if I like, and then let …