jkndrkn

I feel cake-like. Club sandwichy. Layers of goodstuff in my life alternating and intermingling with layers of foulstuff.

I'm pushing forward through the funk that has settled down around my summer and trying to accomplish some concrete goals that I've been putting off for a long time.

• Uploaded a bunch of my favorite projects to http://github.com/jkndrkn as a way to back up important files (I lost my undergraduate programming portfolio to a monstrous multiple-disk crash) and begin investing in my summer 2010 career transition.
• Will use said github account if I ever get around to mustering the creative energy to work on my Lisp/OpenGL game.
• Amplifier successfully submitted for repair and should be repaired within a few short weeks.
• Already getting nibbles regarding the sale of one of my Avatar 212 bass cabinets.
• Found a fellow that is willing to share a pretty sweet practice spot in East Gainesville. Will be checking that out this weekend.
• Inquired about bass lessons. Recent discovery of Paul Galbraith is making me think that maybe my bass technique could benefit from learning guitaristic fingerpicking techniques. Considering guitar lessons instead.
• Completed a second song for the as-yet unnamed rock unit with Ursa Minor on guitar and vox and myself on guitar/bass and vox.
• Was part of a group of four black-shirted academians that descended on a local bowling establishment and wrestled with charmingly archaic software. Fun evening despite my illness and the week's accumulation of work fatigue.

Despite all of these accomplishments, I still feel the foulstuff strongly. There was a time when accomplishing concrete measurable goals would guarantee at least a bit of euphoria. I devoted most of the beginning of my life to accomplish the massive undertaking of completing an education and becoming financially secure, only to realize that the end result was a bit anticlimactic. The savor of goal-meeting has faded somewhat. Life-living is replacing it for me, I think. It's sad that this week I had to lose what I had perhaps foolishly hoped was becoming a pleasant and welcome part of my life.

I'll leave you with a demonstration of the instrument and technique developed by Paul Galbraith to enable him to adapt more of the classical cello and piano repertoire to classical guitar.