monkey nonsense

i now own my own electric guitar! and it’s not a wii guitar!! it’s the real deal!

so on tuesday…
i drove from DC to Columbia/Jessup MD - ~30 miles, 45 minutes
purchased an used line6 floor pod for $100… $110 (grr… after the seller marked up this price once i got there. ghetto!! thing was… i was going to actually give him an extra $20 because i specifically asked him to hold it for me. earlier in the day he said he had multiple inquiries and he was going to sell it to the first person who get up there. but since i had to tutor… and he was all the way up in columbia MD, i asked him to hold it for me and told him that i would definitely be there if he could guarantee it. well… i saved money in the end. because he was so annoying about it being $110 now… i wasn’t going to give him that extra $20 i was thinking of giving him. psh!)

then, from columbia/jessup MD, i drove to falls church VA - ~40 miles, 50 minutes
purchased an used electric guitar for $50. this dude? much cooler than ghetto amp seller. he actually lived in ashburn but was nice enough to arrange the sale to me while he was in falls church practicing with his band. furthermore, he had gone with a first contact, first serve sale. i had contacted him the day before, but because someone else emailed him first… he said he was trying to work out the deal with that guy. when that guy flaked out on him, he contacted me the next day… which is when i purchased it

but bah!! as he explained how everything worked… turns out i need some hex keys to unscrew some screws at the end of my fretboard which keeps the guitar in tune if i whammy too hard… and neither guitar nor amp came with any cables! so during my lunch break, i went to a guitar shop near my office (actually stumbling upon it after not being able to find the radio shack) and purchased the cable. and then after tutoring, with guitar in hand so i could test out the various sized hex keys, i went to the home depot and bought a 7/64th (yeah… that cost me an extra $2 because the 7/64th hex key didn’t come in the smaller set) hex key.

so far, the first 2 days have been awesome it’s not quite as easy as guitar hero but still quite fun!