Haley's been a grouch lately. Really giving us the 'tude. "No!" this, "I don't want to!" that. Really sucks. I just want my nice, easy little girl back.
Riley isn't much better. He's been a scream monster. As in, he screams if he doesn't get what he wants. I thought we were better parents than that...
Marci is going out of town next week. She'll be in Napa for 4 days with a girlfriend of hers. It'll be her first time away from the kids for an extended period of time. Of course, she's feeling tremendous guilt about this. I think she should just go and enjoy herself. She will, but I think it'll be weird for her for a while.
I have been working, trying to figure out how to run our family business when my folks finally decide to retire. Apparently it's going down in the next 6 months or so. Trouble is, I have good people working with me that may or may not be willing to wait out another 6 months working for The Man. Who knows? Maybe I won't be able to either.
Musically, the Lunds are taking a mini-break. We've flat run out of gigs! It's not all bad, though. We've been gigging once or twice a month since summer, so this gives us time to learn some new songs and possibly record some as well.
I recently picked up a new effect pedal for my bass, a Fulltone Bass-Drive. Gives nice, full overdriven distortion without sucking out the bottom. So far, I haven't used it in a band setting, but will on Monday. Looking forward to that.
Since I bought my 2x10 cab, the ol' Trace cab has been sitting in my basement, right behind me, acting as table. Well, no more. Today I took it and a Spector NS-2000 bass I'd had for awhile and never played to my local friendly Guitar Center. Trading those in, I got $350 and with the $420 (420!!!) I had from some eBay sales, I picked up one of these:
A Fender Geddy Lee Jazz Bass. Nice! A few years ago, I had an American Deluxe Jazz, a pretty maroon one. Trouble was, I could NOT get that sucker to sound good to my ears. Maybe it was my gear at the time? Don't know. It just didn't do it for me, sadly. I ended up trading it for the Spector. And now, ironically, with the Spector, I've reacquired a Fender Jazz.
I ended up paying $300+tax for it after my trades. It also came with a killer gig-bag, probably worth $40 or so by itself, so I'm pretty happy with the deal.
So far, I've switched out the E tuning peg for a Hipshot D-tuner and added Dunlop straplocks. I'll put a tiny sticker of me and Marci on it and it'll be complete. The trouble with black is, you gotta have clean hands when you play it cause ALL your fingerprints will show up on it. Looking forward to Monday to try out my new toys.
