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So! My weird actually-it-was-Chinese-characters problem has been solved, thanks to my google-tastic brother-out-law, who worked out that I'd accidentally hit a keyboard shortcut that switched the inputs to Chinese. Which WAS A PROBLEM FOR ME, since I do not, in fact, speak, read, or in any way comprehend Chinese.
Meanwhile, today I either spent, or promised to spend, more money than I ever have before in my life. Arguably topping the days I bought motorcycles, although in fairness, I bought very cheap motorcycles.
I bought:
- Two bras. I wanted to get more than two, but two was all they had in my size, so I will be getting more in the future, most likely.
- A Gibson Les Paul Studio, wine red with silver pickups.
- A Vox AD50VT Valvetronix Tube Modeling Amp.
- A Tibetan singing bowl from the Oxfam fair trade shop.
- A bar of fair trade chocolate, ditto.
- A DVD.
- A headphone jack adaptor so I can use my existing headphones with my amp, so I can practice guitar without it being particularly loud to housemates.
- A 3/4 size acoustic guitar (child's size). This will be a present for Layanna, if she decides she wants to learn guitar, in which case I'll buy another one to do the other thing I will be doing with a child-sized guitar, which is: taking it to Princess Margaret Hospital for Children to volunteer giving the kids there a chance to play with it.
- A digital tuner.
- A gig stand.
- A guitar strap.
With the music stuff, it's worth noting that I got a bundled price deal on it that saved me quite a bit of money on buying all the bits separately, as it turns out, because my guitar dudes are awesome and will work out the cheapest price they can give you for stuff even after you've already said you're totally buying it.
I did not pay for, but engaged to buy:
- A Canon EOS 50D DSLR, with a couple of lenses, and assorted filters and other accessories; the camera and one of the two lenses were out of stock, so the woman at the shop is ordering them in, and has set aside all the things I want that they did have in stock so I can buy it all as a great big bundle. (Because some things sell out, and a couple of things I wanted they only had one left already.) In theory I'll probably be able to pick that up around Monday or Tuesday. At which point I'll be spending quite a lot of money again.
On the bright side, all of this stuff is awesome.
The guy at the guitar shop showed me all the things the amp can do. Including attempting to show me its volume capabilities, but when he'd cranked it up and was exhorting me to play a chord firmly instead of lightly flicking a single string, I was left to wail: "I can't! It's too loud!" My amp can play louder than I can listen, but fortunately it can be turned down from there.
I am, however, exhausted, because I did an awful lot of walking (including a fair amount I shouldn't have had to do, but the Transperth Journey Planner steered me awry), and, at the end, because nobody was answering phone calls including the friend who had promised he could help me with stuff this afternoon, I carried two guitars, gig stand and cables, my backpack (containing laptop, bras, singing bowl, etc), and an extremely heavy amp to the bus stop.
I had to stop every few metres to rest and now my whole body is aching and exhausted, but I have my new darlings. (I called Chas and he helped me carry everything from the bus stop to the house - he carried the heavier guitar and amp.)
So, an exhausting day, but productive, and I even have bras that aren't old and crap now.Current Mood:  exhausted Current Music: dean asleep in the chair next to me, boys playing with their computers
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Things to do: go through the early episode of Absolute Power that features a 2003-era Gareth Lloyd-David (with stylishly bleach-tipped hair) looking young and really rather hot.
Meanwhile, I remain kind of profoundly in love with both my new guitar and my new amp. (Nonetheless, if I play my electric guitar upstairs, I'll be doing so with my small, cheap, and not-very-good amp, because my good amp weighs a freakin' ton and nobody wants to cart it up and down stairs. The little one has the advantage of being light. (Of course, I still have my acoustic guitar to practice with.)
The 3/4 size guitar I got is cute and has a surprisingly good tone, but it's just about impossible for me to play cleanly, because I have grown-up sized fingers. It's fine, it's not FOR me.
I plan to take a whole bunch of carefully-stylish shots of my new gear when I get my good camera, because who am I to avoid combining my beloveds?
Today it's been very windy. Earlier this evening the wind was carrying the cheers from Subiaco Oval to our house amazingly strongly - as well as rattling the windows extensively, which it's still doing, somewhat. The Eagles (the home team) won by twenty points, it seems; explains the crowd's enthusiasm somewhat.
My guitar, it's so pretty.
Other things to do: get to bed early. Er, as early as is feasible given it's half past eleven and I am still downstairs unshowered etc. I'm exhausted - possibly to the point where I'll be a wreck for the next couple of days, as I suspect I may have pushed the limits of my body's coping capacity today. My whole body rather aches, and I may regret my adventurousness in the morning.
Still, I'm fairly satisfied with the day - the only things I was planning to buy that still needed to be sorted out are my camera (which I just need to pick up, selection and so on is all done with) and a powerboard (which I just forgot, but which shouldn't be too hard to arrange).
Definitely bed soon - I just had a delicious carrot snack.
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