A good Evening

I got home from work early yesterday. Helen and Patti were there working on their things, so I went ahead and zoned out playing warcraft and began working on some rendering things. Maggie got home and the girls began working on making chinese dumplings, and then Marlon (a kid from our neighborhood who I pay to mow the lawn) came over bringing homework he needed help on. So we had all five of us sitting around the table, the girls working together in like and assembly line to make dumplings and me helping Marlon with his algebra. It was fun and exhausting all at the same time. We stayed like that for a while moving through dinner and then Maggie working on her homework too. The girls eventually went off to wal-mart and Marlon and I finished up.

I was able to get to re-stringing my guitar after that. It was fun and a little stressful because I was worried about breaking the new string too. After a lot of tuning I finally got it right (and figured out more about the little electric tuner I borrowed from Maggie (I was having trouble reading the screen)) and was playing again. It's cool. I really like the new string I can't tell if it's just expectation or there really is a difference, but the new string sounds "nicer" than the old one. Maybe b/c it's not just the cheap string that came with the guitar but a really nice one. I had fun with it once I got it together and it gave me a cool sense of accomplishment. It's old hat to any long time guitar player, but this is the first time I'd ever had to replace a string. It gave me a cool sense of having moved ahead of where I was.

I finished up the night with practice at the kitchen table with Maggie slogging through American History. I don't know how history books manage to make history boring, but they do. I stayed up a little late to play some more warcraft and help a guy get a special sword he wanted. Fun and a little mindless.