Yesterday I was suddenly struck by an urge to grab my guitar and play some music. The thing is, my guitar’s at home, so I borrowed one from one of my friends for a short time. It’s funny though, I’ve never felt the need or such a strong desire to play this instrument before. It was always either because I had to practice, or because I didn’t have anything better to do. This time it was the other way around. And it still is, so I’m quite anxious to come home this Thursday and put my hands on my guitar. Might aswell take some time to learn to play some new songs.

And let’s not forget about the upcoming holidays! Oh, yeah, I foresee some good things will happen during the next week and a half. If nothing else, I won’t have much work for my university, and I’ll finally be able to go to a Magic: the Gathering session with my friends. I can’t believe it’s been more than a month since we last played MTG, plus, there’s a couple of stories I’ve been planning to write and publish on my blog since this summer, but haven’t got around doing it. Maybe I’ll finish writing them this time, we’ll see.

On the bright side, I’ve finally sweeped off the dust off my guitar and started practicing again. After almost two years of hiatus I’m actually pleasantly surprised that I still remember all chords that I knew before and can find most of their scales without having to look them up. There is one downside though. My fingers aren’t used to the metallic strings of my acoustic guitar anymore, so the progress is quite slow. It’ll also take some time to regain my previous agility in changing chords and staying in rhythm, which is proving to be quite a pain in the ass right now.

The moving of mladi.net from lunarpages to a more reliable host is also something that is giving some variety and dynamics to this summer. Apparently it’ll be up to me to come up with a good design to replace the current one and to better reflect our movement to a completely new platform as well. I haven’t really done much web designing in my life, the one so far (planthefuture.info) sucks, and the promised redesign of Time Recursion appears to be stuck somewhere on an expedition in Himalaya, wearing only shorts, a t-shirt and some old, holey All-Star shoes. Though the concept I came up with so far, looks quite good in retrospect to everything else I’ve made up to now.

Oh, and there’s also “getting familiar with php-symfony” on my to-do list, so I can help my buddy with the new platform for the website.