Feb 24
My car, a doctor visit, and my daughter’s guitar. There you go.
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Nice podcast. Hope all goes well at the doctor’s! I have the same exact issue with headaches and the doc told me the same thing, I don’t get quality sleep. Hope you can remedy that and oh your daughter’s performance was awesome (even if she forgot the words)!
Good luck with the doctor stuff Scott.And Taylor’s song was good,even if she forgot the words,she has a very nice voice.
Scott, you always say you do not drink, but a small glass of bourbon before bed will get you some of the best sleep you can get. You know what they say there are more old drunks than old doctors…
Sleep is a must, unfortunately. Between family, work / work related projects, WOW and other …stuff, makes you wish the days were longer sometimes.
Enjoy it now, it only gets worse. I turned 40 this year and I struggle to stay up till 11 during the week and up for work at 4:30-5:00 am.
You know your getting old when you nod off at the computer and wake suddenly to find your toon is running into a wall in an instance and your group is nowhere to be found.
Sleep is very important, I barely get enough and I’m always aching. So I can relate.
Also, Taylor sounds good
Old people unite.
Young people rock.
Taylor is solid.
Somthin’ sumthin’ summin’ sum.
Re: “a doctor visit”
I’ve been getting up at 6:30 to catch the dawn (click my name for the resulting cloudporn) and trying to get to bed before midnight with some success (I’m still getting used to it). I just started waking up earlier, and for a few months before now I had a pretty nice schedule of 9am-12am.
I’ve found that it doesn’t matter how much sleep you really get, as long as you wake up and go to sleep around the same time each night for a long period of time. Rhythm is more important than rhyme, in other words; beat more important than tone. We wouldn’t have a word for it if we weren’t creatures of habit.
Re: “my daughter’s guitar”
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If I had two wishes, the first would be to live forever (so that the rest of my wishes would be almost guaranteed to come true
The second would be that I could say that and mean it. I want to hear my daughter play guitar and I want to hear her sing. Treasure these times Mr. Johnson…I’m sure I don’t need to tell you this but it was about this point (14, right?) that I started waking up*.
*aka “growing up”
I totally have this problem with my sleep too, but it involves less old man pain, and more inability to stay awake during large group lectures
It’s time to slay the dragon
I enjoyed the podcast a lot, but you sure must have some kind of mic on that recording device (I think you said it was your iPhone?). I can hear every breath you take… Every move you make… Every bond you break… and mostly, Every step you take. Wierd.
I record WITH the iPhone…no added device. I use an app called “Recorder”. Simple pimple.
I get up at 5:45am. There is no way that I can even force myself to stay up until midnight. It’s also equally difficult to get to bed before 9:30, which is my goal. Typically it ends up being 10:30, which is still not enough sleep.
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And I am even older than Scott… but not by THAT much.
Hey Scotty boy. You and I are not far off the same age (I’m 40 in January) and yeah, I sit in front of a screen all day. Half the time I feel like I have a metal bar across my shoulders from all the hunching over. At least I get to walk the dogs every morning, that helps. I skied for a week a few weeks back and all those back issues went away as I was using different muscle groups, was more relaxed and was away from ‘the screen’!! Proves the point I think! I’m not even gonna get started on all the other aches and pains I have, though a lot of those are old rugby injuries!! I know 40 is the new 30, but still… when you’ve been on the planet for nearly 4 decades, that has an impact!! When we were kids people thought 40 was old!!
Anyway, good luck today for the medical. Make sure you get that sleep. And tell your daughter she rocks!!
PS When you gonna organise that London nerdtacular??!!!!!
Hey Scott this is not really for you, it is more for Taylor(Great name for a Guitarist:P) I am a musician, first guitar, then bass, keys, and a little drums(among some other smaller instruments, that are just for fun).
Anyway Taylor:
You did really well, you just seemed really nervous! I just want to throw a little advice your way. I know you go to church and stuff, and although I don’t know how they do things in your church(I assume that you are LDS, but you know what they say about assuming), but the best thing for my playing was to play in church.
I got started playing with the youth praise band, and eventually made my way to the big show(that is the main service band), then went on to start youth bands at several churches, and even made the rounds of playing conferences and stuff. It was honestly the best thing for me. Not only did it give me amazing experience in a venue where perfection is not a MUST, but it gave me a strong musical foundation.
Learning to play with other people, learning timing, learning to keep songs in my head, learning good practice techniques: all very good things that I pulled from the experience. All in all I look back at those days and wish I could relive them.
Another thing is keep a teacher, even if you feel like you have learned it all. A teacher can help you find out what things you need to work on, you may think that you can do this yourself, but often we wear blinders when it comes to our faults.
Good luck and keep it up, learning to be great is a hard thing to do, but it really pays off in the future. Other things in life will become easier because you have the foundation of hard work that you put into your hobby. You also get better at picking up new skills because you have a more intimate knowledge of how you learn and what techniques work best for you.