Weird out day

[altivo]

Spent a large chunk of the day configuring a new firewall box, since Watchguard dropped support for the one we have been using (only 3 years old.) This wouldn't be so bad if they made it easier to move your setup from one box to another, but... they don't. Which forced me to go through the entire configuration bit by bit, and that's not entirely bad since I decided that about half of it was pointless. Left that half out. We shall see what happens when I test it. Testing has to happen when the library is closed, since it will knock out the internet connection completely a couple of times. That means going in to work on Sunday probably. Ugh.

Because we've suddenly been seized with the idea of performing railroad songs for a picnic at the railroad museum in June, I dug in the music closet (yes, we have a music closet) and retrieved one of my guitars. Which hasn't been played for quite a few years. The strings were hopeless, of course, but there was another set in the case so I changed them out.

While we were watching The Muppets (latest Muppet film) borrowed from the library. Our conclusion: not the best one they ever did, but fun anyway. Or at least funny. Oh Jim Henson how we miss you.

Gary made an Indian dish from cauliflower and potatoes for dinner. It was good, actually, though I think he took the instructions a bit too literally on the serrano peppers. Not into the pain spectrum, but certainly rates a HOT! or so. The rice and chutney work to balance it out in the end. Hopefully it won't come back to haunt my dreams in a little while.

Guitar will need a day or so to settle in pitch so it will hold a tuning, so I haven't found out yet how much I remember about playing it. Not that I was any kind of master, but I used to be tolerable. Keyboards are more my forte (pun intended) or even wind instruments, but keyboards just aren't portable enough for most things outdoors. We shall see.

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[lhexa]

For myself: drum, keyboard (or harp, if plausible), and guitar (classical or bass) would be the instruments I'd like most to understand, although I've made but crawling progress on all three. The reason for the preference is that they seem to be the three closest to music theory, whereas other types of instruments all seem to have their fiddliness -- timbre for string instruments with bows, tuning for hand harps and saxophones, volume and breathing control for flutes and woodwinds, and who-knows-what (teamwork? stubbornness?) for the panoply of other reed instruments. My physiology is good, thank you very much, I don't need it being changed just to learn a type of music. -_-