We said we'd be happy with either.

Exciting times!

A new baby has been welcomed to the house.  He's got a good colour to him, healthy sound, light enough to pick him up when I want.  Boston hasn't hasn't met him properly yet, but I think they will be fine.

Good looking lad, isn't he?

I've had it in my mind for a while now that I wanted to try something new musically, and the choice between bass or drums wasn't hard.  I could talk about musicality and arrangement and commitment to entry, but really it came down to which one I could plug headphones into.

It's interesting having something musically new to play with, it's been a long time since I've had this feeling.  It's something quite a few people are familiar with I'd imagine, when they'd got the chance to start a new instrument back in school and they came home that first night proudly showing everyone the case it came in and all the extra little bits.  And that first honk into the mouthpiece, accompanied a split-second later with the realisation that you can't just blow into the dented mouthpiece and have Louis Armstrong come out the other end, but maybe you just need to wait until your next lesson and your teacher will give you the Secret to being the next virtuoso.

The nice thing about all this is that I know better now, and won't be so disappointed in a few weeks time when I'm still fuddling around the strings trying to play Yankee Doodle.

-Anthony

[saucesplash]

I thought you'd be taller by now.

Dear Internet,

So.  It's been five years.  I could say it's been a while, but I kind of doubt you were counting.

Quite a bit has happened since I saw you last.  I've cut my hair, all srs bns-like.  You've started putting @ symbols in front of everyone's names.  I had to ask a friend what that was all about.

I have to admit, as momentous an occasion as it was when we found each other's company again, I'm perturbed that I spent most of our first day together Facebooking and looking at lolcats.  I had sort of expected this grand and intricate web of networks and contacts to blossom upon the connection of that delicate little ethernet cable, but just as I had remembered from our times previous, you provide little reward for the equivalent energy put in.  (I'm currently thinking that may not be a bad thing.)

I think we'll be different this time around.  I'll let you know if I need anything.

(As an aside, though I may have struggled for a moment with the name for this blog, I vetoed 'Blog of Pants' as suggested by certain others purely on the basis that I didn't want any conditions required for participation.  No blogscrimination based on attire around here, thankyou!)

-Anthony

you should know that you're just a temporary fix