Category Archives: Cornell

Electrical Work

I spent a good part of Saturday finally mapping out all the plugs and lights and their panel correlation. Since I’m working on the house, replacing carpet, I want to replace the painted over plugs with newer ones, replace the … Continue reading

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State of the House

I recently refinanced the house as part of our separation agreement. This removes the responsibility for the house from Rita in case something happens to me, financially or otherwise. It’s a big sigh of relief for her as this isn’t … Continue reading

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Master Bedroom Update

When we went to Prague a couple of years back, I was struck by the art of Alphonse Mucha. His work was done around the end of the 1800’s, early 1900’s and I found I really liked the, well the … Continue reading

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Observations on Rocksmith!

Couple of updates here. There are over 150 versions of the 72 or so songs. Since each song can possibly reach 100,000 points, you’re talking 150,000,000 points. I’m only just reaching 4,000,000 points so I have lots and lots of … Continue reading

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List of YouTube plays I’ve uploaded

I do have a few other videos up of me practicing and playing but Rocksmith has been a load of fun. I should have a nice one of me fumbling along up on stage in February (OMG!) 😀 Anywhere, here’s … Continue reading

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With Drop-D tuning figured out

I started getting better with the two songs I have for the next event. Soundgarden and Muse. They’re both sorta fast but with my initial not understanding of hitting the E too hard, they’re both starting out quite simple. Heck, … Continue reading

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Drop D Tuning and Rocksmith!

I’m on the next set of songs for the event and three of the songs are tuned to Drop D. Normally your strings are tuned EADGBe. In these songs, you have to retune your low E string to D so … Continue reading

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Practicing and Rocksmith!

Woot!! Broke my first string on the guitar. I was practicing In Bloom by Nirvana and there is a fret 12 bend that is a whole note or better. I was really pushing it when “twang” and it was broken. … Continue reading

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More Rocksmith Details

This is something I realized a couple of weeks ago but I finally went ahead and gathered all the details and will update the listing posting. But a majority of the songs in Rocksmith have more than one method for … Continue reading

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New Guitar Day

In my capacity as a sometimes computer troubleshooter when not at work, one of my IBM friends recommended me to a Lawyer friend of his for some computer help. Over the past 3 or 4 years, I’ve done some simple … Continue reading

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