{"id":1771,"date":"2003-12-05T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T09:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2003-12-05T09:48:03","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T09:48:03","slug":"once_upon_a_tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/once_upon_a_tim\/","title":{"rendered":"once upon a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>listening to my boss play guitar for us this morning has brought my craving for piano lessons to the top of my brain again.  i have a guitar i could learn how to play, but i don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s for me (and not just because my hands are too little and the neck is too big and i really hate having to cut my nails so short and it just plain <i>hurts<\/i> until you get your calluses).  how often do you see a guitarist reading music?  i like reading music.  i was awfully good at it at one point.  pianists read music and i was awfully fond of playing piano.  if i hadn&#8217;t had performance anxiety and judyjudyjudy the scary tennant hadn&#8217;t moved out and taken her piano with her, i might have kept on playing.  then again, i might also have kept up with gymnastics and gone to the olympics, too.  (i tried a lot of stuff, but i didn&#8217;t keep up with much at all.)<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve actually thought, occasionally, of getting a digital piano so that i could play and practice in the comfort of my own hovel and flex the creative side of my brain.  luckily for me, the price has been prohibitive.  that&#8217;s not to say i wouldn&#8217;t dump a thousand bucks on something i thought i&#8217;d use a lot (see: new computer and digital camera), but i know myself far too well.  i&#8217;d play piano like a crazy person for a couple of months until i either became bored or overwhelmed with other committments (read: homework) and then the keyboard would sit in the corner my guitar now occupies getting dusty and making me feel guilty every time i looked at it.<br \/>\nthere are so many things i&#8217;d love to do but i always seem to run out of time.  i&#8217;ve been pretty good this past week, what with the moving and errands and baking and cleaning, but i can feel that starting to slip away already.  i&#8217;m always running out of time.  especially on weeknights.  i like sleeping, so i tend to go to bed early by most standards.  it&#8217;s not unusual for me to be in bed by 9pm on a monday-friday.  unfortunately, that means i have only about four and a half hours to come home, cook\/eat dinner, watch anything on the tv i want to watch and do anything else i want to do.  it&#8217;s just not a lot of time.   maybe i should start snorting coke or taking methamphetamines to relinquish my sleep requirement (or, like lorne on <i>angel<\/i>, get my sleep removed!).  just think of all the stuff i could accomplish (if i threw my tv out)!  i could become a world renowned something-or-other of this-or-that.  i&#8217;d be famous for stuff or really good at other stuff what with all that extra time to hone.  you&#8217;d think someone would have figured this out years ago and got something on the market.  maybe that will be my claim to fame!<br \/>\nnaw, i think i&#8217;ll go have a nap instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>listening to my boss play guitar for us this morning has brought my craving for piano lessons to the top of my brain again. i have a guitar i could learn how to play, but i don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s for me (and not just because my hands are too little and the neck is too <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/once_upon_a_tim\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}