SWEET SCHEIZER AND HUZZAH!

first off, i should appologise for recent silences... but, no, i won't, 'cause apologizing so much is making my sorry-box ache.

now that i have that out of the way, i want to offer up a recent victory in my own realm: after weeks of griping and moaning that "i really need to get some real drumsticks," i have finally scraped together enough money to actually do so!

my internet research had mislead me; everything i'd found when googling drumstick prices, they always seemed quite expensive (the smallest monetary value for a pair of quality drumsticks came out to be $18.50), however, when i'd finally took the initiative to go to the nearest music shop to price some real ones, they ranged anywhere from $3 (for child's-first-instrument type sticks) to $8 (for fancy, sparkly ones). i settled on a pair of simple, non-varnished pine, 13.5 inch, teardrop vynal-tipped 5B drumsticks for $4.

i have named them Ziggy and Lars.

as of yet, i still have no, you know, drums to practice on, but why get ahead of myself? i have buckets galore, some pot-lids for cymbals, and a pair of perfectly good snare-hat boxes (that i actually bum from Lord Semaj when we jam).

so, yeah... sweet scheizer and huzzah for my sticks!!!