A New Year, New Blog

So I got a guitar for Christmas and I purchased a lesson book yesterday. So I thought that I would give it a try. It came with a DVD to help with the teaching. I spent about and hour last night tuning and learning some basics. I learned three cords A, G, and D.
You know I always thought that it looked kind of easy to play the guitar when I watched others doing it. I figured that if I could just learn the cords I would be able to play no problem. Those ideas ended last night after a short time. First of all the way you have to hold your fingers to press on the cords is very awkward. It is hard to press down just one string without pressing on another. Then there is strumming depending on the type of music you are playing. And transitions. And there is the pain. Those strings are rough. My first finger feels like it went through a meat grinder. Never the less I did play those three cords last night and it was very exciting. My goal this year is to become a good guitar player. Hopefully by the end of the year I will have callouses on my fingers and I will be able to play great. Let's see if I can do it.
The spring semester has started and so far so good. It seems like this semester will not be quite as time consuming as last semester.
Today I had Chem Lab and there is a new girl who is one of my lab partners. I had her get a thermometer. Well this girl didn't know that there was a crack on the bottom of the hood just perfectly sized for a thermometer to get lodged into. So of course she set the thermometer into the hood so it rolled down into the crack. Well it fell on the ground and the thing broke and of course mercury everywhere. Well maybe not everywhere but it was in front of the hood we were working in. This is the first time I have ever broken anything in lab although it wasn't really my fault but it was within my group. Oh well I guess it could have been worse. I know because my Chem prof. has told some pretty disturbing stories about lab accidents. Other than that the whole experiment went pretty well it just took a little longer.
Okay that is all, not real exciting but I am going to try to post at least once a week or so. That is all.