175th day sober. Last night I listed some Ebay things which is good, and more importantly, I did some practice.
I hadn't practiced for days, and when I got the violin out it was still in tune. This Bunnell violin from Kennedy Violins may not be the ne plus ultra of violins, but for a beginner like me, it's great. I even like the cheesy shoulder rest that comes with it, even if I do have to unscrew the legs of it to fit it into the little compartment in the case when I put it away. I've used a real Kun shoulder rest in the past, and this stays on the violin better and is even lighter.
Even though I'd skipped a few days, I found I'd improved. The exercises were easier, the playing position felt more natural, and so on. I'm still on the open-string stuff and will stay there until I'm ready to move on as there's tons of different note-counting and some very basic bow-technique stuff in there too. I practiced a bit over a half-hour.
Of course it was something like 9AM when I went to sleep, maybe closer to 10. The plan had been to get up in time to pack a couple of things I could take to FedEx before the rain started but when I woke up at 3, I could not bring myself to get out of bed, I felt so tired. So I went back to sleep until almost 8. I'll figure out the shipping later.
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