Weekend of March 7th, 2014 Update: Grills!

Let's get the bad stuff out of the way first.

Not having an amp has drained my motivation to play beyond practicing a few techniques.  On Sunday I hooked up my amp-modeler through my bass amp and manipulated settings to get a decent sound out of it... and yet it still just did not "have" it.  Also I had to plug in, patch and unplug so much stuff that its just not practical to use, not to mention probably somehow dangerous.  Priority one will be getting a cheap dirt pedal so I can at least get some battery powered distortion to practice with.

On to the good stuff.

First grillout of the year!  Everything worked perfectly.  The hotdogs, hamburgers and chicken were done, and as far as I know not overdone(aside from the hotdogs, as people around here like them burnt, charred black).  I cleaned the grill up before hand.  Got a new grate scrubber.  Used the bathtub to soak the old grates.  Dried it out with a pre-warming up of charcoal.  The old grill might have a few more years on her yet.  She gets her biggest workout on Easter, then she can take it easy generally the rest of the year.  I am hoping to get a new power outlet added to the garage so we can have some music out there... I guess I need a new stereo with an "input" jack for my tablet... either that or get a new sound set up for my TV... why everything have to cost money?

Listened to the last Bon Scott album in the ACDC stuff.  This would be Highway to Hell, a very important album in my musical development, and as "bad" as it sounds, an important album in my childhood.  I've got a much larger post on it to be featured later this week, two ACDC posts actually.  The whole Powerage/Highway to Hell era is a huge area of "finding themselves" time for ACDC.  What we hear today has its roots in those albums.

I did not get around to watching the last 2 episodes of Season 3 Walking Dead, that'll be for Tuesday most likely.  I didn't get around to watching or playing anything this weekend beyond some youtube stuff.  I think I'm going to start posting some recipes here.  I will not be making a recipe blog, so it'll just be a part of the Skypp Everything blog.  I think I may have come up with my "signature" sweet.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.