Christmas, New Year, Epiphany and even the Ashes are all over. I guess it’s time to get back to work. Now where was my annual plan, my performance checklist and my Gantt chart? Oops, I seem to have overlooked the lot of them. 
On the other hand, I did passably well on my plans for the holidays:
- I got to know my Pocket Master better, surprising myself by making a good tone from scratch, and practicing a lot more as a result. I have to consider this a win. I also learnt a bit more about the device’s output, and even bought a new cable. That’s my GAS satisfied for the next twelve months.
- I also got around to recording myself playing guitar (Escuchar 'Sevilla') and in the process found a decent way to make music available: using the cloud service Box. I think Dropbox is just as convenient, and appears to display a sort of amplitude histogram to show you the streaming progress, though this is hardly necessary. My main goal here was to find a simple way to share stuff, not necessarily guitar-related, with others in my family.
- And then I couldn’t help myself - I wrote about ‘that which cannot be mentioned’, Mark's Log of Learning - #98 by MarkPeters - but I have my excuses.
So don’t be sad, 'cause two out of three ain’t bad.
I was asked yesterday if I would teach someone how to play guitar! I talked to him a bit about how much money to expect to pay for a (first) guitar, and pointed him to Justin Guitar. Obviously I can’t do better than that.
Recently I’ve noticed my strat has been going out of tune a bit more than normal. The 6th string is buzzing on frets 1-5, and a rattle is coming from the middle pickup. The weather’s been very changeable, but other than that I can see no reason for all of this. I intend to ignore all these problems and hope they go away. If not, then I suppose I’ll have to do something. Thankfully, there’s room in my plan for that.