Strengths

I went for a run today, first one in ages. Except when I'm late for class or bored and forgot my music, but that's not very far. Today I ran to guitar paradise near Ikea in richmond. It's really interesting, I stopped by couple of places along the way, checked out the Australian Catholic University, the Salvos store (suit jackets for 10 bucks?!), the men's suit warehouse (compared to the $250 suits here?), and tried out a Cole Clark and an Epiphone Casino with a bigsby bridge. The Cole Clark was nice, but I'm very sure my new Martin is way awesomer. WAY. The epiphone was crap. Doesn't sound bad or anything, but the action's way higher than I'm used to with my electric, and the sustain sucks.

Action = height of strings above the fretboard (so the higher it is, the harder it is to play)
Bridge = the bit that holds the strings down on the right hand side of the guitar
Sustain = how long the note holds for after being plucked/strummed

What I understand, and this isn't always necessarily true, is that the higher the action, the better the sustain. So the trick is usually to find the right amount of action such that it's comfortable to play, but you still get enough sustain.

The Casino lacked both, and when I tried the bigsby whammy bar, there was this really loud snap. Scared the hell out of me, it's a freaking expensive guitar. I just pretended I meant to do that and carried on playing so the shop assistant wouldn't notice. And then I retuned it til it sounded decent again and put it back and ran back home.

That was my little adventure for the day, now, I took the strengths finder test just now too... my top 5 strengths are:

Developer
Connectedness
Adaptability
Empathy
Relator

It's odd. I never figured myself as much of a people person, I'm not one to strike up awesome conversations with strangers, and yet, these results do make sense. I guess I just need to re-think what I mean by "people-person". Its interesting cause it explains a lot of things about myself I never really quite understood. But I won't go into detail here.

I'm a strength hero. I'm a lycan. Vladimir's, Power Treads, Vanguard, Buriza, Assault Cuirass, Bloodstone +22 buffs. Pwnage. Not.

ENOUGH DOTA! STUDY! *HOWL*

I W I S H I W A S 10 F E E T S T R O N G E R .