I can now officially say my ukulele has been played infront of a campfire. Ta da!
I wasn't sure I wanted to bring it on the camping trip, mainly to save space, but also because I don't really have any songs memorized, but Jason insisted, so on our first evening, I brought it out.
And lasted about five minutes because BRRR!
Yeah, first day was freezing. Well, not literally freezing, but you could see your breath all day, even in front of the fire. So I played it for a bit, and put it away, but yes, it has had that initiation!
It rained the rest of the time so it didn't come out again and I'm not sure I have a passionate need for it to come on another trip, but yeah, if there is a bingo card for, uh.. stereotypical west coast things to do? I totally just filled out a square.
Whoops. Double Whoops!
I have an (older) Apple laptop, and some of you who do as well, may know the frustration of the charger cords. They are absolutely the weak point of these devices and constantly fray and break. Especially, it seems, for me, probably due to the angle of my cord compared to where it has to plug in and where I spend most of my time. So because this part breaks so much, I get tired of paying the $100 for the replacement I know isn't going to live all that long. Last time I got a replacement I tried to fortify the break point, but it still went. And then I ordered a slightly cheaper one off of Amazon. It didn't come from apple, but arrived with all apple branding, so... I figured it was real enough. *shrug* It frayed as well, and this time the protective coating was only slightly split so I left it for a while, intending to get some electrical tape to seal it up for a while. Which is why I was not so happy to hear and see it spark when I went to plug it in...
