all the things that I used to know have gone out the window

Cybr came over to pick up a little guitar technique, which was highly entertaining. We went over some basic chords, power chords, and a few other random things, and just generally had fun. And yes, B sucks. I am a truly inept guitar teacher, but he did well in spite of me. I haven't played with any regularity since I started working in computers, and it shows. My technique is awful, I'm sloppy, and I don't remember probably 90% of what I used to know. I pulled out some of the music books over the weekend and stumbled through Attitude Song and Satch Boogie quite painfully, though I did better with Call It Sleep and Always With You, Always With Me. Not as well as I used to play them, but tolerable. Since I started playing again I've mostly just been working on rhythm and playing along with songs and not doing much lead work, but I think I'm going to split my time now between learning bass guitar and regaining my lead chops.

It also reminded me of how much fun I used to have hanging out back in the day and wondering what's happened to everybody. Strangely, none of my friends from high school or college that I still keep in touch with ended up somewhere wildly unexpected. Some of them went even further than I'd thought they would (and I have high expectations of my friends, because I think highly of them. Otherwise, why would I still want to be friends with them?). I think I'm actually the only one who ended up somewhere unexpected, at least from my point of view. And I've certainly ended up with a far better life than I'd have thought.