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Another bright spot from last night I forgot to mention earlier...

A few weeks ago I came up with a neat little riff while working on a bass line for one of our songs.  I played it for our drummer last time and he really liked it, and he put a really nice beat down to go with it.  Only thing was, while it sounded good it was more of a funk/blues type of thing rather than rock/metal.  I didn't know if it was usable in its current form, but we figured we'd see what the guitarist thought.

Btw, our drummer is Brian and our guitarist is Ed.  It feels awkward typing out what they play instead of names, so now that you've all been introduced, on with the story...

So last night I play the riff for Ed with Brian on the drums.  I show him how to play it and he starts working it out.  Eventually we all hammered it into a more metal sounding riff, and then we all started throwing around ideas for guitar parts over it til we got something we liked.  I'm sure it will undergo more changes, but point is we were able to use something I came up with for a song.  So that was cool.

In other news, I have my son for Thanksgiving this year.  I have no family (disowned them several years ago) besides my son, so our holidays are usually lower keyed affairs, though very enjoyable and relaxing.  So I gave my son a choice: we could go out for dinner, or I could attempt to cook a turkey.

I've never cooked a turkey before.  I actually am a good cook, I just don't cook since its just me 95% of the time.  My son knows I can cook since I have cooked for him when he's up here, so he opted to go with me cooking a turkey.  So I've been googling tips and instructions all day, trying to make sure I pull this off without making us sick.

Should be interesting, if nothing else.  I'll make sure I post how it went.