Personal day March 13th, 2014

March 13th, 2014

Research day.

Today is one of the days I use to completely research the things I'm interested in doing/making/playing etc.  I am meticulous with this kind of stuff.  I know some people where my habit of this can get on their nerves, I'm probably too cautious on a lot of things.  If I'm going out to buy a coffee machine, I come armed with information.  If I'm going to buy a cigar, I'm educating myself on the history of the brands I'm looking at.  If I'm buying an amp, I'm filling entire blogs with my search.  So what did I find out?  My "wants" are expensive, and my "needs" are expensive too.  Truck repairs.  A new bed.  Well not much I really care to share here, but I did decide on my next guitar.

I went reasonable, and I also decided that my amp replacement is a "need".  I look at things as a way to help me not go crazy and make impulse buys.  I've looked at a lot of guitars.  I looked at a lot of makers.  In the end, I decided to go for a Les Paul "copy" that "matches" with my SG that I plan to keep in E minor tuning.  The Agile guitar company is a bargain that I will regret if I miss out.  So I'm going for one of their lines, and it comes out at around $350 total with case for a guitar that many feel is better than a Les Paul studio plus at $1200.  Will it irk me that the headstock of my SG doesn't match its sibiling?  A little... but a faded brown Les Paul of its same line is $800ish, that's freakin' used SG Standard territory, and I'm not even a huge Les Paul guy.  Common sense and a gloss finish come through for the Agile.  Also, like, that's it for the foreseeable future.  I'm not an instrument collector.  When it comes down to it, I make the decision to stay simple.  It just takes me going the long path to get to that decision.

As for the bedroom.  I've decided to go with light grey paint on 3 walls, white on 1.  Then pine furniture.  Pine furniture is cheap around here, like cheaper than Ikea, and it fits the region.  I did not get my money totals up yesterday, but I shaved over 50% going with mix-match style pine stuff instead of "oak" veneer/stain.  I've got some cool layout plans.  I am going to go for a hotel layout of the bedroom with a love seat, coffee table set up instead of the "cafe" set up I was thinking.  In the end, there's a lot of movie watching in my bedroom, so the love seat just makes more sense, even if the individual chairs would have looked better... and been more comfortable... the love seat will reduce messy bed occurances.  

Ok, I hit my 45 minute timer.  I'm keeping my time here limited because I can easily get carried away.