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New life

I’ve been adjusting to new life with Veronica over the last week and a half. We’ve now combined most of the kitchen stuff (and thrown out a lot of old crockery and pots & pans etc), and done some cooking together. I baked some barra on Sunday night and marinaded some tuna steaks for last night, very nommy. The kitchen is pretty much a smoothly running machine now, and I’ve done more cooking in that kitchen in the last week and a half than in the previous two months!

We’re still very much in organisey mode, carried over from the wedding preparations. The house is benefiting greatly, but our relaxing time is mostly just playing guitar/piano, watching Arrested Development, and playing games together. I predict, however, that in another couple of weeks I’ll be back into projects – Dave’s wedding video, the Cars short film, and a DVD of our wedding, not to mention my MMORPG design. Archery is going to be a little more difficult now that Veronica and I share a car, but I should be able to manage it on Saturday mornings most of the time (not this week though; got a “Shards of Allara” magic tournament on Friday night.) And pretty soon I’ll be running “Horror on the Orient Express” for my Wednesday night D&D mob, just as a change of pace.

I’m really luxuriating in the freedom my new guitar is giving me. Every time I play a piece nowadays sounds like the best I’ve ever played it. It’s amazing the difference the guitar makes – the Teresa has a much better dynamic range, a richer bass, and a brighter high end. The fretboard is slightly lower, so barre chords are easier to do, and the combination of lower fretboard and brighter high end means that any hammer-on/pull-off sounds better too.

And getting back to work hasn’t even been too bad. Von and I drive to work together and she teaches me bits of Cantonese and we listen to classical music. We were listening to Rodrigo’s Concierto de Arenjuez this morning. Amazing the power the piece has (especially the Adagio) despite how many times I’ve heard it! I must have five or six versions on my various classical guitar CDs.

The lunchtime gang are approaching the end of episode 1 of Darths (about 205 comics worth) and thankfully it’s still thoroughly enjoyable, so we’re going to continue. Hooray!

Wedding Video

Here’s the video I create as my speech at the wedding. All the timestamp subtitles are accurate.

It was very well received!

Married!

I married the very lovely Veronica on the 25th of October. Hooray! More news once we’re back from our honeymoon. Melbourne has been great. We just got back from a ride on a hot air balloon.