Mandolin

I’ve been playing the guitar for a little over five years now. It’s not very much, but I feel like I’ve reached my “summit” when it comes to playing it. I consider myself to be a lazy guitar player, that is, I learned all the chords I needed to pay the songs I wanted to, but would never go so far as learning how to play barre chords. I’ve got too short fingers (that’s my excuse), basically, I’m too lazy, thus I think I could learn much more and achieve much more, but I don’t want to practice.

I’ve had the privilege to own two guitars (thanks dad), one I had I brought in Saskatchewan while the other stayed home. I sold one in Saskatchewan and I think it’s now somewhere in Manitoba. And I’ve kept the other one until now. I guess I’ll keep it until it dies or I don’t know.

My brother-in-law’s got a mandolin. I sort of liked the idea of learning a “new” instrument that would probably not be so hard to learn since I already knew how to play the guitar. It’s to be sure, not the same, but I really like its high “pitch” that gives some warm flavor to the whole when it accompanies other instruments.

I got myself a mandolin! Thanks to my uncle who diligently searched for it on the Internet. It’s a second hand Dean’s playmate, it’s four years old but looks like new, ah and on top of that, it’s electro acoustic -like I’m going to need that (!!!). The guy who sold it to me lived near Montreal so we met at a metro station and yeah, I’ve got one now.

Bad, bad connection!

Just a quick post to entertain all of those who are tired of reading the same post (because I am sure millions of people are waiting to read something new on my blog).

It’s been a week or so that our Internet signal at home is strange. Well, for my laptop anyways. My laptop (well, the desk on which it sits) is at about 10 meters from the signal machine (I can’t remember how it’s called), but the signal is always “very low” or “low”. Thus I need to get closer to the signal machine (man how is it called again!) to get a better signal. I move in the living room, at one end of the couch: signal is very good. Neat! But after a few minutes, the signal is “low”. I move to the other end of the couch and the signal is “very good”. Ah man that’s just crazy. I’m glad I didn’t have that problem when I was doing my four-hour exam on the Internet last Wednesday!

I really don’t know what’s wrong. When I go somewhere else, like a library or at university, the signal is always super fine, but when I’m at home, even at 10 meters from the signal thing, I still get low connection.

I hope you enjoyed this post.