Upgrading

After many years of using the same, cheap instrument, I think that I need to at least consider looking into getting a new one.  Now, I can't say for certain, this is why I'm going to need to spend some time in music shops, but I think I can hear my guitar starting to break.  Or get out of tune.  Or it just sounds cheap.  I don't really know, so I guess if I can't tell why the new instrument is better than my old one, I really shouldn't bother getting a new one.  I guess that the new one would be shinnier.  In reality I probaly won't bother doing this for a long time.  But I have officially listed it as something that I have a reason for doing.

Judgement

Listening to the radio is not a useless endeavor.  I have just decided that today.  Most of the time it pretty much blends into the background and you don't really think about it that much.  It's also hard to think about songs you aren't familiar with.  But I think that my, "spot the good song" game makes it worth it.  I don't really have a reason for the songs I pick, or much of a pattern, but it takes some thought to decide that you like something.  I think that with all the time I spend listening to the radio it's got to be worth something.  I know that I am not wasting my time.  I bet in the future I'll even find more benefit from listening to the radio.  Probably.

Scenery

The reading that I'm doing has reminded me that for some reason I haven't been focusing on scenery lately.  There are a lot of uses for different types of styles, but writing about scenery is one of those things that most writing is going to have in some way.  I think that sometimes is takes a really well-written book to notice something like that because of the way that it makes long, flowing passages.  How it sort of encourages you to keep reading.  You don't always notice exactly how this affects a piece of writing until you spend some time reading different styles.  Obviously other styles don't omit this, but scenery can't be the focal point of every piece of writing.  It is a tool that I would like to have available.