So today I have achieved not once but twice?

This "I will do x every day" concept is definitely interesting. It gives you a totally different perspective on your evening especially. As before with the running, I have now become adjusted to the continuous background loop in my head identifying when I will fit in a few minutes of strumming. I've also reached that stage where if I'm out in the evening I know that strumming has to be pretty well my first "job" when I get in.

However, despite this, the blogging still seems to be an issue. For some reason my brain flatly refuses to factor in time for the blog that comes afterwards; I think maybe this is a defensive position adopted to safeguard against any realisation of the lack of creativity that afflicts me as I try and find a new perspective on six chords, mild discomfort, back-ache, and the ongoing question of quite what long-term damage I'm doing to my hands and fingers.

Anyway, to return to today and the strumfest. Having rediscovered my guidebook I practised my (now nine) theoretically memorised chords yet again. I then wimped out of the necessary effort that is clearly required to learn to move between them  - ie endless practice (yes I know it's pretty important, I just didn't quite have the motivation today). Instead I flicked forward in my manual to the single-string chapter. While this is probably not the right way to learn, as I am teaching myself who is to say? And they so say one motivates by variety! Again, I know not what may be wise ... instead, by the end of my session I had - very slowly, very inaccurately, and distinctly unconvincingly - done a two-octave approximation of the G major scale. 

As the teacher I have the right to determine success and failure (that's how it works, right?). Therefore I am now declaring my considered view that despite all the unmusical interludes along the way, a two-octave G major scale is in fact an achievement! (It's ok, cheers, no disillusioning is required!).

In addition, now, my blog is up-to-date.

And so I declare: today I have achieved not once but twice. The Febethon strums on.