And the answer is -- dull surprise!

 I have no idea of what I am doing---
I totally lack motivation....
so i sit awaiting inspiration....

Five for fighting---easy tonight

My next car model has arrived...
a Tamiya,1988, Porsche 911, whale tail turbo..
construction begins soon---maybe?

The 9th was Jimmy Page's birthday.
He is 73.

Jimmy Page

I have a disturbing hiss and buzz from either my

pedal board or my amplifiers.

Oddly--more electronics are required

to eliminate noise from my electronics?

I ordered a very cheap noise reduction pedal,
at the risk of making my pedal board possibly overloaded?

In reality the below pedal is what

I really need:

A guard at Buckingham palace came very close
to firing at a shadow---
Thinking an intruder was on the grounds?

It was Queen Elizabeth out for a stroll at 0300hrs?
The Queen took 3am stroll Buckingham Palace grounds
I can only imagine what the guard was told:

On Netflix streaming---

excellent--

whenever i feel the world and the human race is
totally fucked--
I like to watch Armageddon...
for some reason this stupid movie 
(and I realize it's very stupid)
  makes me feel better?

That's a pretty complex insult, for a drunk.

0000 hrs,
New Years eve, 
I had a true, spontaneous thought:
2017 will be good. 
this thought simply appeared in my brain..
This was not wishful thinking--

I have now watched every (free) episode of
Top Gear 

on Amazon streaming...

I so want one of these:

A Gretsch G100ce Synchromatic cutaway.
Fucking awesome...

Suddenly according to the Internet,
You should not clean your ears with Q-tips?
doctors-seriously-stop-sticking-q-tips-in-your-ears
Despite all this expertise these articles don't really
say how you should clean them at home...

 The Web is always positioned "just one click off"
of providing any real help!!
Especially this blog!
The only thing the web writers advise is to
 ask your doctor to clean your ears for you---?
 sure--
The doctor would really fucking love to do that for me...
just bring a bazillion dollars...
he probably just stick a Q-tip in there.

My wife and I
 jointly, voluntarily decided to stop watching the 
Walking Dead--?
A series we loved.

The ending episode of season 6 just did us in for it...

I have become, perhaps overly focused on the guitar

I've been practicing 2-3 hours a day now.
The state of retirement permits this time investment.
I am on a constant search for a unique "sound"
and style for a solo performer.

I received my Trio plus pedal this past week and
it is outstanding--it appears as if I may be able to
 perfect and store background, drum & Bass tracks to be recovered 
during performance, if i do my part properly?
This is one major, structural performing requirement accomplished!
The difficulty with having a piece of gear
actually solve a guitar problem for you is that one immediately
falls victim to G.A.S.
Gear acquisition syndrome.

Gear acquisition syndrome
strikes a guitar player when one believes that new
equipment will actually increase their playing ability?
Very similar to when an old guy buys a Ferrari 
believing that it will make him physically desirable?
There is no known cure...

Billy Bob Thornton was amazing.

I just want to know if the Lord said it this many times in a row?

I feel as if I am waiting for something to happen?

 I have absolutely no concept of what I am waiting for?
It is as if I keep anticipating the arrival of something?
Like an unscratchable itch?

Like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters,
I have no idea why I am making the mashed potatoe,
Devil's tower--?
But I am...

We don't do Christmas?
We never have...

Why are we considered weird for not engaging in
Christmas when society supports this as normal
for their holiday?
Mall fights

Apparently the Russian Army Choir died in 

an aircraft crash this past week

Russian-military-plane-missing-in-black-sea

This truly sucks...

the Red Army choir has backed my all time,

favorite band, the Leningrad Cowboys..

If you haven't heard the Leningrad Cowboys and 

the Russian Red Army Choir do

Sweet Home Alabama...

hit the link below and prepare to be amazed!

watch the Leningrad cowboys and the red army choir do sweet home Alabama

I always thought the Red Army Choir agreeing 
to perform with the cowboys was awesomely cool!
Their loss is a fucking shame!

Hard to believe--
Just hard to believe--
Carrie Fisher dies

Winter is always watch repair season for me.

I maintained my Timex WS4 digital expedition this week.

Battery replacement, and a cleaning.
This is a HUGE watch, 54mm, but it's interface is
so easy to see and use, allowing me to geek out and time everything!
7.35 minutes from my front door to Starbucks?
Plus compass, temp, altimeter, barometer--
I have been wearing it all week..
I have multiple digital watches but the WS4 
is by far the easiest to actually see without glasses and to use.
I am very glad to have it back in service.

So last week's upcoming possibly cool was the sequel
to Blade Runner.
This week it is the upcoming Alien film
Alien Covenant.
Ridley Scott's alien covenant trailer

I have no idea if this is a prequel, or sequel?
I am now lost in this series with no idea of 
if this movie is at the beginning...
or the end of the series?
Who cares?
I love these alien films just for the visuals,
any to me, any
Ridley Scott Alien film is cool.

O^ 
is not just an incredible, original, presentation 
by Netfilx streaming...

It is something you can watch that reignites
one's faith in humanity.

I took the risk and invested in the Trio plus

bass and drum pedal I desperately need 

if i am to gig solo...

I have been using a smaller less viable version

of this pedal for practice..but to gig out i needed

this particular model which stores your rhythm patterns

on SD cards and can pull up song patterns

 stored on it's card memory.

My smaller version of this pedal has no capacity

for memory--it must be retrained for each song, 

each time you play.

Sort  of a musical groundhog day---

unacceptable for public performing--

My plan is to arrange and store sets of 
songs on SD cards and use this pedal for
background while gigging live?
That's the plan anyway,
the possible end result of me onstage---
utilizing this equipment,
 is still pretty much
 an unknown entity, at this time?