My guitar teacher, Mick, has been covering different scales with me for the past 6-8 months or so. At first, we focused on the pentonic scales both minor and major. Lately though we’ve switched to the major scale or modes. The scale includes the following modes: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian. During my [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2007’
Single daddyhood going ok
I’m into my 2nd day of being a single parent (Kathy’s at a wedding till Sunday) and I’m surviving. Of course, I’m trying to keep the kids busy too. Yesterday, I took the kids to the zoo and we were there till about 2:30 or so. When we got home a friend of Xander’s called [...]
I’m a pathetic man!
At least, that’s what this story may look like. I put on this shirt on Wednesday morning and realize, “Gosh, this is a really cool shirt!”. I remember why I like it because it’s really comfortable, loose and fits great. I haven’t worn it for a while because it’s basically a summertime shirt and we [...]
I’m a single dad for a few days!
Kathy’s off to a wedding with a friend of hers. Sounds like she’s going to have fun (probably too much!). I’m of course going to pine away the nights. During the day, I’ll be too busy to be sad though. Having 2 boys has always been simple with the both of us but when ever [...]
Woodworking repair work
Back in the shop again, and today I was focused on the task of figuring out solutions. First was how to get my large box cut to cut at the correct depth. This was a pretty simple one. It took a little examining of my jig and adjusting of my router and then suddenly I [...]
School’s Out for Summer!
Everybody, sing it! Ok, I can’t help it even though it’s not me in school anymore. That song just sticks in my brain this time of year. Anyway, Xander and Mitchell have their last day of school today. Pretty silly to have a last day of school on a monday to be sure. Even sillier [...]
More on my woodworking project…
I got back to my shop…an amazing 2nd day in a row! Today wasn’t as euphoric as yesterday. It was fun but the progress was slower and I ran in to some problems that are going to take some thought to puzzle through. As I described in my earlier post, I have large box joints [...]
I actually did some woodworking!
Amazing, I actually made it to my shop and picked up tools and worked on wood. I finally finished all my side tracked projects (getting chisels and planes sharpened, reorganizing my shop, cleaning out tools I don’t need to make room for tools I hope are better). I had no more reasons to not work [...]
Blog Update
Today I updated the underlying Blog software to WordPress 2.2.1 which should have little to no affect on those who read my blog. The update was supposed to be one for stability, bugs, and security. Since my Blog is pretty darn stable then nothing should really change. Some recent changes worth mentioning that some may [...]
New computer stuff…
Kathy (my lovely wife) has had her computer for far too long. I’ve been telling her to get a new one for a quite a bit but she said she didn’t really need one. Well about 3 weeks ago, it started misbehaving and even with my vast (really, though I in no way profess to [...]
Technology…it’s grand stuff
Kathy and I have been trying to come up with a better solution to our TV situation ever since we moved from DirecTV over to Cable (we have Comcast). Part of our dilemma is that we both, after some time of trying to live with Comcast’s DVR and their plain cable boxes, realized that we [...]
Down for a bit
Not my computer, just my brain! I had a migraine on Thursday. Man, it was quite the migraine too. I can’t remember one quite that bad. When I get that kind of pain, I just have to crawl into a dark space in my mind and wait it out. Interruptions unfortunately pull me out but [...]
Check this out…
Over at our Gallery, you can listen to Mitchell playing the piano. He is playing Take Me Out to the Ballgame which is very appropriate given that he is totally into baseball right now. Let us know what you think of his incredible playing (we obviously think it’s wonderful!).
I heard something interesting yesterday…
We were at Church yesterday for Xander’s first communion. First communion is the ceremony allowing children to begin taking the “Body of Christ” within the Christian Church, or more specifically the Catholic Church. It was a nice ceremony. Father Kevin, our pastor (the head of the local Church) lead the service with the help of [...]
Today was a special day!
Today was Xander’s first communion. In the course of milestones, that’s a pretty big one. He had a lot of preparation and work to do in order to get ready for today. As I’ve said before, this allows Xander to continue on his own spiritual journey by getting some basis on some form of spirituality. [...]