Bleep

Not so much to say lately. But the fellow flying the helicopter that crashed in Afghanistan yesterday is a good friend of my sister and brother-in-law, and the poor chap who died was one of my brother-in-laws first students (my brother-in-law is a helicopter pilot and flight instructor with the Army). So, that is sad. His unit called off work for the rest of today and they’ve gone to the pub. So I’m praying for the people involved and my brother-in-law as he has conversations with work mates.

I went to guitar class again last night, and didn’t feel like I had done enough practice, as always. I’ve also been feeling like a teenage boy without a garage trying to play Oasis. Wonderwall is quite boring (and you don’t move two fingers for the entire song, so it all sounds very similar!). A lot of guitar music is not that enthralling without the accompanying singing – but to sing along you’d have to actually know the song.

Last night we played some John Hooker Lee (I think that is his name) blues arrangements, with sliding notes. This was interesting. Ben will be pleased, because next week we are apparently going to split the class and play in a round (half the class on lead, and half the class on the rhythm response)! The teacher also told me his wrist warmers are “awesome”. He apparently wore them while warming up for a gig in Dubbo recently where it was freezing (he said he didn’t wear them on stage, but we’ll just let that go …). So, it’s now official: you can play guitar and wear them at the same time.