David Christopher Coffin's Blog

 It was a heartfelt Christmas with lots of gift giving and Christmas movies... oh, and lots of good food.
I was gifted a mandolin by my parents and I'm hopefully going to learn the chords (the booklet that came with the mandolin has the chords in it) A mandolin plays like a guitar but is smaller, more weildly, and has a chorus effect....

 So, I've been training my ear for years, but now I'm playing whole songs. I'm realizing you don't need to memorize the complete song to play it well. It kinda comes together as you play it. But you do need to know what comes next in the song. So, when...

 UPDATE: I've quit smoking again, probably healthier for it 3/3/25... It's a little too much when a pack of cigarettes costs $12 too... but I'm not really a smoker, I might pick it up again this fall around August, but we'll cross that bridge when we...

 This goes back a couple years to my "too bad, so sad" series of posts that left you wondering how a middle class child could have such terrible luck with healthcare... Well, I'm back, and armed with more knowledge... the Price of healthcare sucks, the...