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

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