Holidays and swimming

Feels like a lifetime ago now but we have just been on our first family holiday! Now its not like we haven't been on a holiday before and its not like we haven't had a great time, In fact we feel lucky to be able to travel around the world visiting family, But it was fantastic to get away and be just the three of us for a change. We took the opportunity to do very little with our time just relaxing. In fact we did nothing but Sleep Eat Drink and visit the swimming pools on the resort we were staying at! The upshot of all of this is that Christopher can now swim un assisted. I don't really remember learning to swim my self. I have a distinct recollection of being in swimming pools with arm bands and lots of memories of swimming proper as a young child however the transition from one stage to the next is a blank! Having watched Christopher's transition from non swimmer to swimmer I think I may under stand why I don't remember. I blanked it out! Learning to swim is a fairly hard task and while Chris did love it in the pool it was certainly a fairly harrowing experience for him to start swimming on his own. All in all though we had a fantastic good time.
Unfortunately my camera finally gave up the ghost so I don't have any pictures to upload but if your interested this is where we stayed.

Guitar upgrades?

Well it is no real secret that I am in fact a geek, but some times I hate myself for it. I like to know how things work and have no real problem taking stuff apart to get it to do what I want. Some times it goes well and other times it has been an expensive mistake! This weekend I visited a music shop to buy some geeky music stuff and in the process found out that my guitar has software in it. If I had taken the time to think it through I would have realised, But as it is an acustic guitar all be it a fairly hi-tech one I have never really thought about the software and just played it. After returning from the music shop with a special cable, I plugged the guitar into my PC and “Flashed it” (upgraded its software). The upside is I can now change some of the settings (graphic equalizer, compression and mike position from the PC) the down side is I have just upgraded software on an acoustic guitar. Now I can’t stop my self thinking of the guitar of more of a computer than a musical instrument not a place I really wanted to be… never mind it still sounds good plugged into an amp and that’s all the really matters. Or is it?