to the best girlfriend in the world :)
today’s becca‘s birthday. she is 26 just like me!
happy birthday, hun!
this is the 3rd birthday i get to celebrate with you…we’ll keep celebrating ’til either of us can’t grow old no more! :P
that’s me.
and that’s my pretty girlfriend.
730 days!
married folks and marathon daters, i know that’s probably nothin’ to you, but it’s something to us!
i took becca out to eat a fancy dinner at Chart House. we went to Chart House for the first time in Boston and had a good time there, so we decided to try another location (Weehawken, NJ). good food and great view! (pricey, but hey, it was a special occasion)
picture taken around the back of the Chart House in Weehawken. taking a picture here was not easy…but it was fun trying :)
Brown Bears – Six Flags Safari from mongchacha on Vimeo.
becca was very happy at the safari.
happy becca = happy simon
it’s math, yo.
i’ll let my first “official” entry be about my effects pedals…
this is new: RC-2
bought for me by my beloved rebecca. she knows that the way to my heart is through signal processing gadgets! about this little box: it really packs a whole lot into a small package. it holds 16 minutes of recording time and 11 slots to save those recorded samples to. what you do with it is basically record something you play in real time, let it play back, and then either play on top of it or overdub another line onto it. and what you put in is what it spits out, so there’s no loss in quality (at least not from what i can hear) it’s fun for sure.
this is not new: Rodenberg GAS-828
but i will be sending it back to germany to have the circuitry updated! YES!
this Rodenberg GAS pedal delivers a very satisfying smooth overdrive. it also looks damn cool!
this pedalboard is sort of new.
it’s a small size-upgrade from the 1st generation pedaltrain i used to have all my pedals sit on. the old one was a few inches short of 24 inches. this one is a full 24 inches long, which gives me just enough for another column of pedals :) this allowed me to place 2 phasers (EH Small Stone / Ibanez PH-7) in different ends of my effects chain and also allows me to include my new RC-2 loop station.
future upgrades will come in the form of modifications to 2 of my pedals (after the GAS-828 mod).
that’s it for now, i think.
