Yes, I admit I am running a little thin on blog post titles. I put in another 3 hours of census work in the heat today. It’s getting rough with temps in the mid-nineties. I really wears you down, and my creativity is sapped after that’s finished.
Fortunately, I managed to log about 1300 words on “Swing Shift,” my work in progress, before heading out to deal with trying to earn a few bucks. The story is finally coming along. I have major plot points marked in my head, but getting from point to point has been unusually difficult. Still, I think this is a pretty good story. It had better be, it’s already over 6000 words and I have a long way to go before it’s finished.
I picked up a book on jazz guitar this afternoon. Not ready to use it yet, I’m still plowing through the Mel Bay book for like the third time. I spent about two weeks on the chord progression for Star Spangled Banner and I finally have it down pretty well. I never really had the feel for C and G7 until I spent that much time using those two chords. They are getting fairly comfortable now, which means I can’t be as lazy with my fret hand. I don’t have a particularly good reach, my fingers are kind of short, so I have to move my hand around a lot. (That’s one reason I want to learn to play slide guitar, I won’t have that problem.)
The Phoenix Suns whomped San Antonio again, proving, I think, that this is not the same old Suns that used to get beat every year in San Antonio. Hopefully this will be the year.
