new Musician’s Friend catalog came today. once again, no guitars that fit my specs/configuration. what i need is something with a Strat or Soloist style body (though anything, really, will do, as long as it’s comfortable and has at least one cutaway for the high-end fretting), WITH a double locking tremolo (prefer Floyd Rose style), 2 single coil and 1 humbucking pickups, volume & tone knobs, and (here’s the thing i just can’t seem to find) 3 mini-toggle switches for my weird-assed custom electronics. i prefer black or deep blue with black hardware, but i’ll take whatever the hell i can find. i also need an acoustic 6-string.
but i did find a few cool things to add to my wishlist, including a few real interesting instruments i want to get for a friend of mine who’s going to wind up being a multi-instrumentalist. she’s picking up the guitar really quickly, so i’m thinking about getting a Jasmine (by Takamine) for her.
now i need to find money. i hope something happens soon; i’ve secretly drained my $3k inheritance (until now, it’s been my safety cushion) down to a few hundred bucks (over about 2 years), and i’ve almost nothing left in my checking account now, plus about $10 in my pocket. i STILL haven’t been paid by my last remaining web client for the last few months. tomorrow night i’m sending them an invoice, even though they’ve sent me no work for September. hopefully they’ll get the fucking hint. things are getting particularly dire at this point.
yesterday’s DDN classified ads were maybe the thinnest i’ve seen yet. it’s amazing the amount of experience employers now want for even the most mundane of jobs. with so many unemployed people out there, i guess that’s become the norm now. it’s a shame, because i don’t have real solid qualifications for anything besides washing dishes, and i can’t live on less than $8/hr. most of the jobs i’m seeing seem to be of the “you’ll take $6.75 an hour and you’ll be goddamn happy about it” variety.
i’m really really hoping that i can do some work with Finite Monkey, but i’m afraid i just don’t have the skill level they probably want. i’m really good with CSS 2 and XHTML 1.0 (like 99% of everybody else out there), a veritable master of HTML 4.01 (who isn’t?), and handy enough with PHP (though i really only know about 15% of the language core and don’t even have OOP concepts down yet), but that’s really about it. there’s not much else i can really do, besides fuck around with graphics and make simple Flash widgets.
