March 30, 2014

I made it to bed at a decent time last night and was up by 7:45AM this morning. That made for a long day with not a lot going on. I caught up on YouTube videos and now I really want to buy Goat Simulator. It is a very ridiculous game but it looks like a lot of fun. I probably won't end up getting it until the price drops though because $10 seems a little steep.

I dug out my keyboard and started relearning the song I started learning however long ago. I can't remember how far I got previously, somewhere on the second page, but today I almost made it through the second page. I'm playing the song from one of my bass guitar books, where I wrote in the notes above the music. What I really need to do is learn how to read bass clef. When I started playing the trumpet I wrote in the notes but eventually I learned to read treble clef. And that makes bass clef so confusing because it looks exactly the same, but an 'A' in treble clef is a 'C' in bass clef. I need a way to compartmentalize the two. Given enough time I can figure bass clef out but I'm just translating it from treble clef, rather than really knowing it on the bass clef. But if I can get past that, I can actually read the music as I play it, not just memorize it. I might get there eventually.

Tonight I did laundry and watched TV, catching up on About A Boy (which I thought would be a good show, and it is, but who knows if it will last), rewatching the series finale of Psych, and watching the latest episode of Cosmos. I have always wanted a badass telescope and every episode of Cosmos just makes me want one more and more.

Tomorrow is the beginning of State Assessments and from what I've heard, it is going to go horribly. Something to look forward to.