It finally came. My Taylor Big Baby. Though it is slightly smaller, and not the most expensive guitar Taylor makes, it is still awesome. I love this guitar. I may not be the re-incarnation of Jimi Hendrix, I still have fun playing. I have been playing bass for about year and decided I wanted a to get an accoustic to play with. I made a trip to the local Guitar Center to check out some the of their guitars. I found the Taylor after a few minutes, I was drawn to it, and immediatley knew it was the one. After about 10 minutes of playing with it and asking my friend what he thought of it, I reluctently put it back and tried out some of the other guitars in my price range (under $400).

Nothing really stood out. I then gravitated to the high end guitars. Daggum, I wish I had the kind of money where I could drop two grand on an accoustic guitar! Some of the Martins they had there were simply amazing. I also loved this Gibson they had (the one with the Doves on it). That was a fine musical instrument. But that is neither here nor their. I have a Taylor Big Baby and I love playing. Next step, guitar lessons. Seeing as how I never took bass lessons, I do believe that investing in some lessons would be a good idea. You can only get so far with Tabs. I am taking a folk guitar class when school starts. We'll see how I do there. I am a bit worried I'll make an a$$ of myself, because I am sure I'll be the least experienced musician in the class. But oh well, just have to go with the flow I suppose.

Today is a fine day, even though it is June 26 (i think) and it is raining outside. The reason it is so fine is I finally have a PC that should be able to support games like HL 2 and Far Cry. Sure, it isnt a $2500 gaming beast of a PC, but hopefully it'll get the job done. All I need to do now is shell out $300 for a 256mb vid card. Lets hope I'm not wasting my cash. Here's my PC specs. How does it look?

Dell Dimension 4700-Pentium 4 processor 3.2 GHz

Mem-512MB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM

Hard Drive-160GB

Sound-5.1 Channel Audio (have an servicable sound set-up already)

Drive- 16x DVD-ROM and 48x CD-RW

Ownage. My union is finally up and running. This is awesome. Hopefully this union won't tank, which i know it won't. Join up now: http://www1.gamespot.com/unions/home.html?union_id=knightsunion

Also, i have this mod icon next to my name. I know it is something to get excitied about, but i don't know exactly what it means.

For some reason completely unknown to me, my wireless Live connection is crapping out. It has been doing this for the last few months only, which is strange. Previously I have had little problem, very rarely getting dropped from any games. Now, though, I get dropped from just about 95% of games and get sent to the stand-by screen at least every 30 seconds to one minute in 100% of games. It is bugging the hell out of me!The fact that the wireless adapter is some distance from the base station (different story and oppisite end of house) is not lost on me, but it has not eer given me this much trouble. Another strange twist is that it is only my live connection! Even when I am not in the middle of a game, it will give a lost connection message sometimes. Weird. I am in the room where my Xbox is right now typing this out and my connection is just fine regarding standard internet useage. The reason I am so frustrated is that the new Halo 2 maps are out today and I cannot use them!!!! If by chance anyone reads this and has a suggestion, aside from moving the Xbox into the room that houses the internet connection (which is not possible), I would most appreciate it.

Somehow I got recruited for a GS union. the Havok Union to be specific. Not sure how they found me though. I haven't posted any forums and don't have any of those sweet badges (aside from GS basic). Quite a conundrum. But hey, I'm not complainin (and they do have a pretty kick a$$ banner.) Keepin the language clean for the kiddies.