Trumpet Hero Noodles a Bit

As a former trumpet player, electronics geek, and fan of making stuff, I think this is just too totally cool right here:

Guy fit a trumpet with Guitar Hero controller hardware, and added a breath-controlled switch made from parts from a car air conditioning system.

Some people would ask Why Did He Do It. Not me.

Others would ask How Did He Do It. Not I.

I only ask How Did He Find The Time.

I know the answer, though: By not wasting so much of it as I do.

For me to fix that, I suspect I will need something more than simple resolutions. I will need to calm down my brain and reconnect with whoever it is I really am. I will need to get into meditation somehow.

How, my first question naturally has to be, will I find the time to meditate? But that's like asking how I will find the energy to exercise. I don't know, but I suspect that meditation actually creates more time than it uses, just as exercise creates more energy than it uses. It's just a matter of starting it, like a fusion reactor.

Don't hold your breath. I need counseling, too. And a better diet. And work done on my Jeep. And on the Lectric Lurrveseat.

And now, I want to build an electronic trumpet. I actually thought of something like that Burn before last while watching a violinist serenade Temple-goers through a pair of tall speakers. It was a beautiful sound and merged well with the gathering twilight and the hush that always descends on people at that sacred space. I thought, damn, in a year I could get my chops back, and program some DSP system to do simple tricks like delayed playback (a time-programmed echo) or mimic me with harmonics or I don't know what; maybe add a rhythm track and noodle around to that; add to the harmonics effect a foot pedal that selects between two and three tones of offset. That would be so cool.

Yeah. Lo-o-ots a projects I think of. Did I ever describe the Terrible Terrorist Teeter Totter? Thought not. It's all in my head anyway. Requires some significant bicycle construction skills and heavy steel welding. Oh, and a heavy-duty trailer. And a warning that death and dismemberment are risks accepted by anyone who rides it. But it would be SO FUN.

My current project, well, no point describing it till it's done. I bought the parts, and then found them unsuitable so repurposed them, and I need to go online and buy more parts. By "current" I don't mean actively engaged on my workbench anyway. I mean ahead of others in line. I got all kinds a other shit to do too, you know. Like figure out where I put my trumpet. I wonder what my neighbors would think?