No Guitar Yet

I should know better. Every time I jump the gun and mention anything that I'm "going to get", something winds up happening and I don't get it. Such is the case with the guitar that I thought was on hold for me. Last Saturday I found a guitar that I loved, which I posted a picture of below. When the sales guy was showing me the guitar last week, there was a person standing right behind me listening in. Apparently he bought it as soon as I left the store. So, when I called on tuesday to put it on hold, the dipshit just assumed that I meant a different color, so he put a red one on hold for me. So, when I went in on Saturday, no guitar.

Fortunately, there are still some in stock in the Rochester store, so they're going to ship one to me. But, since no two pieces of wood are the same, it's highly unlikely that the quilted maple top on this one will be similar to the one that's already sold. The one that was in the store looked a lot nicer than the one shown in the pic below. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what this one looks like, though I doubt it'll look bad, even if it's not as nice as the other one.

So right now I have a guitar stand, an amp, a cord, a case and even the strap. Just no guitar.

In other related news, I spent a good solid 2-3 hours practicing on Kristin's acoustic guitar last night after I replaced the strings. The new strings are fantastic. Not only does it play much, much easier now, but the tone is significantly better. Those old strings were so stretched that I had to wind the piss out of them to get them in tune, and as a result they played very hard. Kristin found it much easier to play. I spent a couple hours practicing a few chords along with some tablature for a couple songs. While I still suck so bad that I can barely stand to hear the noise, it was encouraging to see that after that much practicing, my hands did not get the least bit fatigued nor did my finger tips get sore. That's certainly a good thing.

So... yeah.