I like working with my hands. I like fixing things up, cleaning things, putting things in order. Two nights ago, I stayed up late replacing the bridge and strings of a guitar I picked up (bridge: $2.50, ground floor music store at Peace Centre) because somehow, concentrating on not cutting myself on the metal strings, twisting the knobs, removing the funky sticker, manipulating the spanner, and tuning it exactly made me calm. The owner had put the wrong type of strings on the guitar and the metal had ruined the bridge and cut into the wood.
New bridge. Note my intricate knot-tying skills.
This is my fixed up guitar. And yes, it is sitting in my trash can.
This is my regular guitar. My aunt gave it to me for my 18th birthday.
Apart from fixing up a guitar, I also cleaned my Macbook. Today, I used my facial toner—Dewy Flower Fresh Toner— to wipe down my screen and the grooves between the keys of my keyboard. Sometimes I wonder about the effectiveness of keyboard covers. I have an aesthetic fitted rubber keyboard cover but it somehow manages to let the dirt in. Furthermore, I have a permanent imprint of the keyboard on my screen because the rubber cover leaves marks when I close the laptop. So what's the point, if you know what I mean? Apart from the awesome tactile feel and giving me an excuse to clean every three weeks or so.
The rubber covering my keypad whose only purpose is for the awesome tactile feel and the excuse to clean.
My clean keyboard. You can't really tell it is clean from the picture, but it is clean, excepting bacteria, dirt and coffee molecules below a certain microbe size.
You can't tell from the picture—come to think about it, you can't tell anything from the picture—but I have already removed the plastic cover protecting my trackpad. I was doing some vacation work that required an unhuman amount of scrolling in excel, and I couldn't cope with the extra lag caused by the plastic cover any more. So I stripped it. And my trackpad isn't any dirtier than what it was before.
So, what's the point?
Monday, February 04, 2008
Therapy
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4 comments:
nice guitar. i find that taking out the strings, scrubbing the fretboard, leveling the frets and restringing the guitar is highly satisfying as well.
What do you mean by "leveling the frets"?
Oh, thanks for the comment and your compliment, btw. :)
you're welcome. if you notice, the strings cut into the frets leaving 6 depressions on each fret after some time if you play regularly. unless the frets are really worn out, you don't really need to level them. but i'm obsessed with keeping my guitar in top condition.
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