As my annual wont, I spent the weekend in York, attending the
Visions Easter service. Some years I seem to connect with the story more than others; this year I've been working trying to get some major stress analysis codes ported onto a Condor cluster, so it took til Sunday afternoon before I'd switched out of work mode (I then fell asleep and was late for the evening service).
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Was staying with my friend Richard, who broke up with his girlfriend of 6 months an hour before I arrived, and was joined by another mate Matt, who also recent broke up. We drank whiskey and planned a mountaineering trip.
Monday I went shopping in York, and bought a grey bowl by
Phil Lyddon, similar to this one, but darker blue grey (though it may actually be the same glaze with a different colour balance than real life).
![](http://www.ernieball.com/site/content/products_strings/phos_bronze_bass/2070-BASS-EW.jpg)
I also bought some new strings for my acoustic fretless bass guitar, and am trying some
Ernie Ball Earthwood® Phosphor Bronze strings. They're really nice - lots of 'splang' on the tops and 'cork' on the bottom, with plenty of volume at the low end (both onomatopoeic - 'cork' is good for bass - a hard attack and a sort of growl, like plucking the bass strings on a piano). I keep playing things with lots of low G and F as it sounds so good.
TME