The first...

My first post! Here goes.

I have more books I need to read than I have time to read, but I'm slowly chipping away at 'em. From math to programming to electronics to amps to wormholes; it's stretching my brain to the limit but it feels good. I'm planning to finally go back to school in the fall which I'm really pumped about. I'm not 100% sure what my major is gonna be, but I'll figure it out when the time comes. It's definitely going to be some science field, but I think that's fairly obvious. Our new apartment is awesome and so is living in the fan. Being able to walk to Byrd Park and Carytown and stuff is pretty awesome, not to mention I can get to work in like 3 mins. now. Dorthia and I are working on a good life plan and generally getting our shit together which is definitely good stuff. I'm happier lately than I have been in quite a while.

I have a few pedals I'm gonna start building in the near future. A few delays, a couple tremolos, an Overdrive and a yet-to-be-determined guitar noise pedal thingy. There are also a couple synthesizers I wanna make after that. The thing I'm most excited for is to start working on my first original design. It's going to be a bass overdrive/distortion pedal. I have some cool ideas that I've never seen in a pedal before. I think it'll prove to be a good design. I have a few other ideas for original designs after that, but I'm gonna work on one at a time. I'm going to build a guitar amp for Dorthia and a bass amp for myself. So that plus my Ampeg amp and I should be more than good to go (I'll probably needs some new cabs as well). For Dorthia's amp, I'm going to gut out this old crappy Crate amp I have and buy a kit to build a much better amp in the same chassis. My bass head might be a little more intense since I'm going to build it from the ground up. I have some ideas for some original amp designs, but that'll probably happen quite a ways down the road.

What my amp will sorta look like hopefully :)

I'm going to either buy a new arduino board or use my brother's if I can find it, and start working on a few micro-controller projects I have been brainstorming. A few of them are music things, but a few aren't which is kind of a first for me. The non-music projects are mostly based around gardening and agricultural type stuff. I'll explain it more in another post, but it's mostly stuff like using moisture sensors to automatically water plants and stuff like that.

If anyone wants to know what to get me for Xmas/b-day/whatever, get me a gift certificate from Sparkfun or Maker Shed. If Mouser or Digikey did gift certificates, I'd say do that, but I don't think they do. Also, any books about physics. I can't get enough of it.

I'm tired of writing, so that's it for now. I leave you with this: