So what's new, heh. What an asshole he is.

I recently read an article describing the "S" factor. It goes a little bit further than simply dismissing the lower half of our population being below average, it pretty much said why they're that way: it's just really easier to not think.

So, if you add those people in with the ones that *can't* think, well, darn, you have the people that elected BabyBush.

The author also endorsed using an intelligence test on voters: Yep, yer OK; yep, yer OK; Nope, yer too fucking stupid to have a valid opinion, the exit it to the right... no, no, your *other* right...

Good things that might come of this: politicians would have to pander to smarter people, which means that they would have to work harder and think smarter. Yep, we'd get rid of a lot of would-be politicos that way too.

I went to bed pretty early last night, and got up at about 08:00 this morning, mostly 'cause I left the bedroom door open and the cats woke me up. The little one, raisin, likes to get under the covers and bite toes, it does.

And the day, Karen-less, has been pretty boring.

She will be back sometime soon, I think, and we will go out to the bar tonight and listen to some music.

And I've been pretty much dividing my time today between reading and playing, both on the keyboard and the guitar. I think that I'm making progress on the guitar, and getting my left hand to behave, overcoming 40 years of sloth. It seems that there is an easy way of doing things and a right way when it comes to guitar playing. I'm seeing the light, but it's a long way, and it's a hard way, and I don't really know if I have the stamina to go the whole route.

I do think that it would be different if I really had a goal, like becoming famous and rich, but I don't, I just like being able to do music.

Music is fun and amusing and it makes me feel good to do it, and it makes me feel even better to do it well. And that's the extent of my motivation, I guess.

And I love the new amp.

What I'm trying to do now is play the songs that I know well using the "new& style. And then I can move on to new songs, which will then be easier to learn.

23:39
Just got home from the bar, Karen was really tired when she got home, and, since I'd got up at 08:00 I was pretty tired too.

I did get a chance to watch some of Jody's left-hand movements, though, and I found out that he's not a purist. Yep, he only uses the thumb support above (or north of) the fifth fret. I personally think that should be *south*, but he disagrees, and he's the guitar player, after all.

And no, that doesn't mean that I'm gonna relax my standards any, it just means that I should do as he (and many other people) has said. Now, that just doesn't sound right, here I have a singular (Jody) and a plural (other people) that have all said the same thing. He *has* said, they *have* said. What to do, what to do?

OK, *everybody* sez "Do it the *right* way!"

So anyways, we had a good time, but we didn't really stay all that long, danced about three times I think. I didn't really get tired until after the first set, and Karen was pepping up a little, I think, at least enough to drive us home. I don't drive if I've even had a coupla beers, of course.

And that's it for our Big Saturday Night Out.