Socially challenged and a few cool things.

My first post was about a picture and it was easy enough that I thought the second one should be as well. I'm not the most socially skilled of folks and when I'm in those group settings looking for something to chat about I often will try to find some sort of common ground in my limited repertoire even if it's a stretch. The following image fits that bill and is brought up on my phone for any musician I find myself talking too, being musically challenged in all but the listening part of music.

If they say "Oh a Strat" then I know they will appreciate the adjoining story. Not that anyone else wouldn't, whole television series have been built around these types of stories, they will just have a slightly deeper appreciation. The reason is that this is not just another Strat. This Strat will hopefully one day be played by some amazing musician. Those who know Strats will look at this like my Father(n-law) in a text and say "'I'll give you $11,000 for it right now!" You see this Strat sat idle in a closet for over 40 years and is worth more than any vehicle I've ever owned. This Start is a shinning example of 1958 Fender Startocaster or so Norms Rare Guitars said, and I got to pretend to play with it. Not long after this photo was taken it was sold to a collector. Someday I hope to hear it played the way it was always meant to be played in some video and say that was the guitar I played with. I'll likely be wrong of course but it will be fun anyway.

What's in a cover photo?

Some people set out to start a blog as an outlet for their pent up thoughts and creativity, others to provide help on topics, maybe some do it strictly for potential revenue, but for me it's just exploring the benefits of my GMAIL account. If you stumbled on this page for wit or wisdom you will likely be disappointed. I'm anything but a word smith and not even sure there will be more posts but I enjoyed the distraction of setting it up in the moment. Speaking of setting it up, a Cover Photo seemed to me to be as important as the description so I plunged my image files and found this taxi photo. It was taken with an old Canon Rebel 35mm camera on my 1st or 2nd Anniversary in San Diego. The driver looks like he could be working a smart phone, but they didn't exist when the photo was taken. He is actually using that amazing technology of so long ago, a pager. To me the photo looks old and dated and yet somehow current.