Brands

There are certain names that stand out in fields for excellence.  Apple, Dell, Gibson les paul, and Nike are the ones that come to my mind.  I don't know that it is always better to pay more for those brands but it certainly feels like it is most of the time.

If I was out to buy a guitar it would be very hard to talk me out of buying a gibson, and the same thing with the other brands.  There are just certain things that provide a sense of security in that you are spending your money on the most high quality product possible.

I'm not saying all those brands are perfect or that all people would agree but those are the ones that I feel comfortable with.

13.1

I really want to run a half marathon this year.  That's my goal.  I need two things to happen for that to be possible. 

One I need my sprained ankle to heal enough to handle the punishment, which I think at this point it has, and Two, I need some warmer weather.  Last year I ran all winter long, and this year it has been nearly impossible.

Hopefully this spring I can make up for lost time.

Rings

Wedding ring, class ring, super bowl ring, and military ring.  Why have rings become such an important symbol in our culture as opposed to any other kind of jewelry?  What about that particular type of jewelry has drawn our attention the most?

Is it because they are easy to wear?  I would think that a necklace would actually be less intrusive, so that can't be it.  My guess is that it's hard not to see a ring since we use our hands so ubiquitously. 

We clearly want others to see these status symbols so we wear them on something that is almost always visible;  our hands.

Studio

A friend of mine recently built a music studio and it sounds like he is getting serious about doing some real business in there.  Clearly he didn't ask me for my advice since I would just assume that a hfudihufidao0 was just a strange twitter handle.

I wish him the best and hope that he has a lot of success.  Maybe I could be on the "I knew him when" special in 30 years.  You have to start somewhere.

From the pics it looks pretty cool but I haven't seen it in person.  Perhaps I need to ask for a tour.

Plywood

There's a lot in the world that I don't know about and that is why I enjoy learning so much.  Today I found myself looking at guitar center stuff.  They have some very cool and eclectic musical instruments some of which I could not identify.

There were some that simply looked like a plywood box and others that looked like drinking gourds.  Its amazing to me how many different things there are out there in the world to discover and the internet makes it possible to see so much more than I could before.