I found an online site that has courses for Guitar, Keyboard, Bass, Drums and Vocal.  They are offering access for $19.95 a month or $129.95 per year.  I also ran across a 50% off discount in my wild web wandering.  When you join, just key in the promo code: wsl09mem.  That made a compelling deal when purchasing a whole year of access for just $64.98.  I now have raw fingertips but don’t tell Petra or the kids

This will also allow Rebecca to access lessons for the piano so everyone should be happy.

I’ve signed up for the Fundamentals of Weather course.  It meets the requirements for a Science class with a lab (4 credit).  It starts Monday 8/24 when I get back from vacation.  I chose this class and the General Oceanography course as they both seemed interesting.  The General Oceanography class fits with my diving so we’ll see just how well I do when I take that one in the spring.

I don’t think I’ll try to take another accelerated class but who knows, I have been tossing around the idea that if I took the other two remaining classes back-to-back I’d be done at the end of the spring semester.

After a lot of reading and visiting stores, we’ve purchased a guitar.  Right now Petra, Rebecca, Jonathan, and of course my little rock star Sara-Lee all want to play the guitar.  I don’t know if I’m lucky or not but Timothy wants to play the drums.  I’ve tried to sway Rebecca into playing the Piano.  She’s already learned some of the basics and I can’t have her and Jonathan always fighting over the guitar.  I also want to give Jonathan a chance to excel in something first.  He’s always following in her footsteps.  Rebecca and Sara-Lee want to play an electric.  Petra and Jonathan want to play an acoustic.

Given this, I needed to find a guitar that “fits” Jonathan and Petra.  Neither one of them can really handle a dreadnought guitar.  I’d bet that in a couple years Jonathan will grow into it but I need to find a guitar that fits them both comfortably today.  If the guitar is too hard to play or uncomfortable, they will give up on learning it.  I finally got them to both agree on an Mitchell MO100 Folk Acoustic Guitar.  It’s smaller and seems to fit them both.  It was also inexpensive as guitars go.

Now what I’ve not really said is that I’ve always had a desire to learn the guitar.  I’ve played the Violin, Trumpet, Chello, and Baritone.  If I were buying a guitar for me, I would have bought the Seagull S6.  It was way to big for either Petra or Jonathan.  Again, let’s see if I stick with it for six months or so.  If I do and I am still enjoying myself, I just might buy my own guitar

We’re heading down to Florida to spend two weeks with my parents.  We’re all looking forward to a break :)  We’ll  be on vacation from 8/6 until 8/23.

I just completed the Introduction to Psychology course.  I’ve got to say, the amount of reading, writing, and other assignments is just about too much.  Understand that just because a course is accelerated, it does not mean you have less material to cover.  I did pull an “A” so I don’t have that much to complain about.