spending a couple of thousand dollars
Today was an incredibly busy, but awesome day. Busy not just because of work either…
As I updated below, nowhere near as much excitement as I’d hoped. The iPhone was rumoured to be launching tomorrow, but it was one person mishearing the name of a new handset, and then telling someone else, and it just snowballing. Ah well. Tomorrow will still be sweet, and will still see a couple of new phones launched that are quite cool. The set up and prep for all that was at about lunchtime today, and that all went smoothly… just a lot to take in about the day’s activities - I’m at the Investor Day from 7am til about 5pm, and then at the opening of a customer demonstration centre in our building from about 6pm into the evening. Yep, it’s gonna be a long day!
Seeing as tomorrow was going to be so massive, I voted myself an early mark and headed off to Bam Bam music to look at some guitars. But who was I kidding, I can’t go to a music store to “just look”. And I didn’t. Having paid off GE Creditline for my Mac, I spent a good hour at Bam Bam before purchasing the following:
- Squier Fretless Jazz Bass
- Zoom A2.1u acoustic effects unit
- Zoom B2.1u bass effects unit
Just quietly… I’m stoked :D
Now, as for that Jazz Bass… I looked long and hard at the acoustic bass and the Jazz Bass. Both were similarly priced, and I really wanted both. But in the end, I decided that buying a fretless bass means that I’m going to push myself to learn more about bass playing. Buying an acoustic bass would just be for the sound. So that is why I went for the fretless. I had a good play of it this arvo, and it definitely will take a lot of practice - just being a millimetre off the mark, and the note won’t be perfect pitch. Thankfully it does have fret markings, just no physical frets. It will be cool to learn new stylings using this.
I ended up grabbing an effects pedal for the bass to get me over the mark needed to use the interest free purchase. Haven’t played with either of the effects units yet… but I probably won’t get into the bass one for a little while. Once I get my acoustic back from a friend who’s borrowed it this week, I’ll be keen to start discovering some nice sounds to get out of the unit for next Sunday evening.
I can’t remember if I blogged about it, but work ran a sales promotion back in May, and the winner got a $500 travel voucher, as did the sales manager of the team overall that did the best. I was the sales manager of the team, and so I scored a $500 Flight Centre voucher a few weeks ago!! So today I took myself down to Flight Centre and booked return flights to Hervey Bay for January, and even managed to get a hire car for the week and keep it all very close to $500. Super!
So my day was awesome: I spent a good couple of thousand dollars… doesn’t that feel good? :)
