Keep Your Mouth Shut

 I should apparently never make a comment like "...provided disaster doesn't happen...".  Besides the first week of June, the rest of the month became a complete wash due to some personal things that came up that wiped out all productivity.  I actually didn't even pick up a guitar for 3 weeks.  If there's one thing I've learned, it's that I've apparently gotten much better at the instrument for I can attest that 10 years ago, had I not played for 3 weeks, I pretty much wouldn't be able to play at all and it would have taken me more than a month to get back to sounding semi-decent.  These days I still sound pretty good overall even after not touching the instrument for 3 whole weeks.  I mean, wow.

I'm hoping to once again have a productive next couple of days.  It's a bit challenging with Wimbledon going on but I'll do my best to balance it.  Few people know this but I actually got into tennis due to recording since I used to always record over long holiday weekends, and most televised tennis tournaments take place on those weekends.  I'd take a break from recording, put the TV on, and then get sucked into 30 minutes of a match.  It was always a great distraction.

I also just pulled the trigger on yet another Breedlove C25, circa 2005-ish?  The person selling it was wanting to get rid of it asap and offered it to me at a price I simply couldn't refuse.  I have absolutely no need, room, etc. for this instrument, and it's not even the model I was looking for.  Sigh.  I get the feeling that I'm going to be doing a lot of buying and selling over the next couple of years, all in search of the perfect acoustic arsenal.

Speaking of, the guitar market is absolutely insane.  I mean, I thought with COVID hitting last year that everybody would be selling amazing instruments at rock bottom prices.  It's been the polar opposite overall with people jacking up prices to unbelievable amounts.  It used to be very rare that I'd see a guitar for sale for $4995; these days, I frequently see guitars for sale for $12995, and even weirder they sell right away.

Well, that's enough rambling for now.  Here's to a pleasant holiday weekend!