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June 25, 2009

As I promised I'd report on having to move your laptop while there were still active downloads from Amazon, and it appears to work fine...the first time, I remembered, paused the downloads with the button at the top then shut my machine and went where ever. The second time I wasn't so attentive to the downloads and just shut my laptop -- I'm sure used the bathroom -- and then left the establishment from which I was borrowing wifi. I did mean to start it back up last night, so I could have a chance of having the rest of the tracks downloaded by the morning, but I overlooked it; but it does seem to have started downloading the remaining tracks.

I spent a good part of the evening playing my little guitar and watching rats the size of small wildebeest make the street on which apartment lies their play ground; that was actually pretty gross. I love this thing, always have (and that says something given that its main competition is a Taylor 800 series), as do most people who I pass doing with it what makes it so great, just walking and playing. Why not? Lots of people listen to music while walking, and I'd bet you have a much greater chance of running into a sign or tree or person or have something run into you listening to music as opposed to playing it. Of course, your chances are raised in either case when the you is me.

Anyway, I don't think I had actually recorded anything with it, though I already loved it's twangy, banjo-like sound. But, this comes through so much more going through a crappy laptop microphone outside to Garage Band. Have a listen (the part and track were chosen for optimum twanginess, not optimum goodness). I had started playing the banjo a while back, but it as too twangy, and no matter how much I tried not to, I played it like a guitar; I also left it by accident in California when I was interning there one Summer. So, it's nice to have something that at least kind of sounds like a little like one.

OK, checking up on the downloader, and I take back what I said easlier about is appearing to work when I didn't correctly pause the downloads before disconnecting...By not pausing the downloads, you end up losing them, and the downloader thinks that they've already been downloaded...Boooo, I don't like this.

Posted by jeff at June 25, 2009 05:46 AM