Things that have been happening in the last while...

My grandmother died a couple weeks ago. Yeah, that sucks. We were fairly close. She lived her last couple years in pretty rough shape, with emphysema and such...at least she's not suffering anymore.

I got New Stuff! a new L-shaped desk, one of the metal-frame-with-glass-top deals. I dig it. Then I ordered a 20" widescreen LCD from (gasp!) Dell, which came on Friday. I really dig that. :)

Musically:

I picked up a guitar last week and actually played for the first time in a month or so. My get-up-and-go factor was a backing that was posted by one of the guys on Cyberjammin...here's what came out of it: "Jammin' With Jose" I added guitars and keyboards.

I've been invited to contribute a guitar solo to a song for the annual CJ holiday collection. I worked extensively on that on Monday. Unfortunately, that month of not playing softened my fingers enough to the point that I shredded a fingertip, so there won't be any playing until that heals.

SGNR posted another interesting backing on CJ the other day and I felt compelled to do something with it. Based on the tone of the backing and my injured state, I decided to lay down some synth lead. It's a bit sloppy in places and there's one really sour pitch bend (should have bent a semitone up, but I bent a whole tone) but I think it came out alright: SGNR's "Ode To No One In Particular"

I guess that's all for now. :)