Hang onto your hopes, my friend.

What a stressful, unhappy, and cold day this was up to guitar. Walking to school in the bitter cold and the rain is not a pleasant way to begin. But at guitar...

Neil: "You were sounding pretty good, actually."

Sounding pretty good? I was improvising. My improvisation on the guitar is normally pretty weak. This is a combination of shyness and pure lack of technical ability (my picking has only recently improved past abysmal). Sounding pretty good? Hey, there's hope.

We'll be out of the machine soon enough.