Quiet mud smile (hypothesis)

 17.03.2022

Thursday. Nice day. Tired a little bit. Sleep seems fixed. Sleepy during the day. Did a repeatable quests. Did it well. I was concentrated and direct. Had breakfast - small, but nice. Had coffee. It works, a little bit. Played guitar. Changed a couple parts. Practiced. Wrist pumped. Outlined the next parts. Practices playing arpeggios down the neck, and then practiced with pedal tones in different modes. Cool stuff. Wrist still pumped. I tend to be quite a downpicker.

There's a cool way to practice - modal motifs. Come up with comething like C-E-G-B-C (root-third-fifth in a previous octave-7th-root) and play in all modes of the scale. Like D-F-A in the previous octave -C-D and so on. A nice way to familiarize yourself with the fretboard.

Not sure what to do in the gym today. Obviously, I have to limit the volume. I'm thinking of doing it from 6:40PM to nineteen forty o'clock.
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Managed to fit in the alloted time.

Overhead press

Some warmup

50 - 2 sets of 10

Pushpress

50

70

90 - 3 sets of 2 - each set technique got better and better

Squats - only sets of 10

3 sets - bodyweight

50 - 70 - 90 nice and easy, very deep, not as controlled.

Just finished reading latest OPM manga. And it ended on a massive cliffhanger! The part where Saitama finally faces Garou. And they made Garou awfully likeable by making him fight alongside Metal Bat. In ythe webcomic it wasn't the case.

It's so very hard to start watching a movie. But I googled "what to watch comedy" and got "Red Notice" suggested to me. And suddenly I'm watching it right away! Good times. I noticed that the teasers do work on me so easily. Any time I watch a teaser in a commercial I really want to watch the movie. Curious. Haven't finished watching "Hitman's bodyguard". That was a funny movie too, I guess.

This morning I marinated some nice pork to make chinese-style cornstarched meat. I wish I had some kind of fruity sauce for em. They're gonna be so oversaturated.

Made them! They are indeed calorific to taste. Made cool sauce for them - it's mostly made of leftover marinade (soy sauce, caucasian tomato sauce, chili, sugar, honey), one orange and half a lemon, tomato paste and some blue dye to make it dark green. Fruity indeed. Overwhelming, but goes in waves. Very fitting for this caramelized pork - in small amounts. I made too much, so I think I'll can it.

One arm rubber pulls (feels around 30 kgs)

2 sets of 15 - to keep it in shape. I hope there's some pork left! One acolyte showed interest in it, so I was quite eager to tell them to go and have some.
And now I'm also sleepy. It's been a long day. Ngl, don't like to be sleepy so early, ha ha. Jamming on acousing and my new SQOE a lot. I wonder how to call the new SQOE most appropriately. It's not exactly a strat, the shape is commonly known as a PRS. Hmmm... By the way, someone else answered my question about PRS body shape. Here it is -

Rik Elswit

, Musician for 60 years. Professional musician for 55.

Answered Mon

The original shape is original to PRS, but was not a radical change from what was going on at the time. What made it popular was the feel, and he won away a number of Gibson players, like Neal Schon, and Carlos Santana. He later made a single cutaway that is an obvious homage to Gibson.

Ironically, Paul hired Ted McCarty, the guy whose design team came up with the original Les Paul (and no, Les had nothing to do with it.) away from Gibson and Ted did some redesign, but nothing major. And PRS’s latest design, the John Mayer signature is essentially an upgraded Stratocaster.

PRS guitars are popular because of the quality of the builds. Even the Asian budget models stand out from the competition.

If I'm ever gonna buy a new guitar - it better be a used one. Actually, I've been eyeing a PRS single-cut Homage guitar. It's super cheap, and I like the way it look. There's something appealing about cheap guitars. And Homage is a chinese brand. I like the chinese more these days. Some internet people have been trying to brainwash us against the chinese, but they're okay guys. They do a lot of stuff. And, realistically speaking, we're closer to them than to the US. Three superpowers. And we're the ones flexing muscles now. And in a way that US or China can't really allow themselves to do. What will happen? Time will show. I'm optimistic.

Meanwhile, some Cort guitars have gone up two times in price. Could've bought Cort X250 with what I paid for my SQOE! Now I can't, ha ha. Well, the dollar has been dropping back down, and also iflation for it is going up. Big guys tryna get bigger at a decreasing rate, and small guys shrink, as per usual. 

Random pic of the day link 

And also some random memes I had on my desktop, ha ha. Moved em to the top.