seeing jonathan, as in jonathan and oliva at cupertino library on thursday was weird, but good i guess. he's still studying.

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ykno how i had "semi-charmed life" by 3rd eye blind nearly on loop when it was still checked out? almost did the same with incubus' "pardon me."

yes, triplets are not hard at all; great. that is, i have no trouble with a trio of eighth notes. but i would love to be able to do a trio of quarter notes without a hitch; whereas doing a triplet(or two) of eighth notes sounds like you're speeding things up, but not fast enough like 16th notes, a triplet of quarter notes sounds like you're slowing things down into the next measure, a very nice way of transitioning.

also bought special earplugs from amazon.com, the ones which lower everything, instead of making everything feel like a dullish, deadish sound; with john tang encouraging every drummer to stop using lightning rods and switch to 7a's, i think i should protect my ears, since i intend on occasionally using 5b's as well. and when i come to the church to practice during the weekdays,

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it's gonna be neat for the next 2 weeks. i get to cook again!

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i should add more videos to my youtube account; haven't really done that in a while.