Yesterday we signed the lease on our new apartment. After paying that first+last security deposit, I am feeling POOR! Anyway, it will all be good living in Berkeley again.
In other news, we are going camping this coming weekend at Whiskeytown Lake, right near Lake Shasta. This will be the first time Kendra and I have gone camping together, and we are both adamantly claiming to each other that we are the more experienced and better camper. I’m sure that once we get out on the road everything will be OK and we’ll just have a good time. When it comes to camping, there’s no such thing as being too prepared, or too willing to deal with inconvenience and discomfort.
In other news, I’ve had my eye on electronic drum sets ever since I moved into the land of tiny apartments. There may be a time in the next several months when I can finally get one, and start playing once again. The new place is a two bedroom, and one room will be mostly for books, and office space, and my closet space. It’s definitely still up in the air, but it’s not out of the question that I could find a place to put some electronic drums.
One new electronic drum set that came to mind is this one:
It’s the Roland HD1″ The small size and footprint are attractive, but there are a few problems with it. The most annoying one that I see right now is that you don’t get different sounds when you hit the rim of the drum, compared to the middle part. Most decent electronic drum sets allow you to do this, and it lets you keep using a lot of playing styles that you use with acoustic drums. It also essentially doubles the number of sounds you can make without switching to a different sound bank. For another $200 I could get a much nicer drum set that’s just a little larger.
It’s this one-
The Roland TD-3SW. It folds up some, and it’s not huge- I guess I’ll also have to wait and see exactly how much space we will have (if any) for this kind of fun. If I can make this work, I will definitely miss living in a house that much less.
