Joe Satriani must be shitting himself by now.

Because I've had three (count em, three) guitar lessons.

Seriously though, nice (ok awesome) as it would be to be a fraction as good as Joe (guitar God in my eyes), I'll be happy just to be able to play some pub rock type stuff.  Anything more than that is an absolute bonus.

I'm liking the group lessons, which is weird, as I thought I'd hate them.  Let's face it, who want's to show how crap they are at something in front of a group of total strangers?  But it's not like that at all.  Everyone is in the same boat, and it's a pretty laid back atmosphere.  No-one is stressing yet.

The last of this group of lessons is this Saturday, so it's time to man up and book another block.  Not exactly a chore though, as I'm really enjoying it.

Life, the Universe and Rock n Roll

Things are looking up.  Work-wise it's getting more varied, and more interesting.
The other day I was doing some electronics for the first time in about 20 years.  OK it was a very basic digital circuit, but do you know, I really enjoyed it.

Yesterday I started working through a tutorial for a bit of software that simulates instruments, that you can then connect to circuits/devices, and either get inputs from the devices or output to the devices, as it acts as an instrument simulation.  Today I've spent most of the day installing it on my desktop, so I don't have to be in the lab to work through the tutorials. (Yes, it took a couple of hours to instal!!)

Apparently there's also going to be the chance to do some C++ programming, so I'll get to learn that.  This is pretty cool.  I did some programming during my degree (TurboPascal, BASIC and C) and really enjoyed it, so this should be pretty good.  Challenging, but good.

In non-work news, I've booked a block of 4 beginners guitar lessons.  This will apparently lead on to a block of 10, once they get organised better.  It starts a week on Saturday (9th).  The only problem with that is that there's an all day karate course on that day, so it means I'll only be able to attend in the morning.  I was kind of hoping there was a chance to get graded, but I guess that won't happen if I'm only there for half the day.  Swings and roundabouts.