Hey mates! Good responses.
I wasn't sure whether or not to resurrect this thread or let it wither on the vine. So I am very pleased to get the positive responses, thank you. Being away from home, I need all the links to friends and familiar people that I can get.
Acidrock, thank you for your sympathetic relpy:
A man who limits his interests limits his life
And thanks to all of you for your "kind" references to songs I might like connected with my alternative pastime. Don't give up your day jobs for comedy writing is all I will say.
It made me feel much better about my fessing up about gardening.
Mike, I guess I'm older and sadder than I thought. Thing is about getting older, you just don't give a damn about what others might consider to be eccentric behaviour. Do y'all remember the film "On Golden Pond" with the old man Fonda playing the eccentric old git? I aspire to be like that. Likes what he likes, does what he does and doesn't give a damn bout how anybody thinks about it. Cool
Aka Magnetising the soccer ball.
Its nice to know you have the same problems with your kids as we have in the UK! They don't understand the reasoning behind tactical positioning and such like. Its like watching flies around a moving cow turd. (sorry for that parallel, I just couldn't help it).
I can share your pain at the T-ball but fortunately/unfortunately, I had daughters so I had to endure ballet lessons, "plinka plonka" piano lessons and pony riding. I would have given anything to be out there on the side of a soccer filed watching the "boys" play, but listening to my friends experience (same as yours), I don't feel I missed anything! At least the ballet teacher was cute to watch
As far as people being from Milwaukee exaggerating temperature, I fully understand this point. a) cos I'm from England and b) cos we have the Scots living just to the North and they think anything over 35 Deg F is tropical and walk around in skirts and T shirts. And thats just the men!
Acidrock wrote:
I consider recording to be a different yet intertwined hobby from playing music.It seems as though in the last year and a half since I got my first computer I've been spending all my time learning how to use my setup.
Sometimes, I cannot differentiate recording from my music they are so intertwined. Recording has given me so much more "width" to my playing and understanding. Its like the difference between trying to paint a real picture as against a painting by numbers excercise.
ChuckU wrote:
18 months later and comfortable with Sonar, I'm still tweaking some of those songs
And of course, I keep messing about all the time with my old stuff. The effort to learn all this technology is immense, I often wonder if newbies fully appreciate what they are getting into. I know I didn't. But the travelling is better than the arriving. And as I never "arrive", I always enjoy the journey, even if it is frustrating. But if it ever got professional, then it might be a different story.
Must go now, money to earn. Mike, keep up the body concreting in the Garden State, Acidrock, look after that sense of "acidic" humour and ChuckU keep makin music! Catch you all later.