Since I reached the end of the teacup painting, I returned to my guitar after a week's hiatus. I intended to return earlier, but I made a delicious meal of thinly sliced pork tenderloin, sliced caramelized onions, and caramelized apples. What does that have to do with the guitar, some of you ask. Some of you do not prepare meals. Those who make the meals know what happened. I played the mandolin too enthusiastically.
Not this mandolin.
This mandoline.
It bit a gouge in my thumb, and yet I did not stop until I filleted my index finger knuckle two minutes later. Of course, in both cases when it bit into me I stopped immediately, so all the flaps of flesh were still attached to my body instead of in my dinner.
And yes, I know, who is injured by a mandoline twice in a row? One is wounded, so one stops, or slows down, or something. In my defense, the first bite was just a nip. I did stop entirely after the second incident, which involved hands held over my head and Neosporin and gauze. Gary had to be waved off. He was quite concerned, and he didn't even see the flow of blood.
It was on the thumb and index finger of my right hand, so no guitar finger-picking for me for a week.
That means my muscle memory had a week to establish, or set, or whatever magic thing it does, and it would seem that now I can think the three variations of the C chord and one G chord and my hands play them without conscious thought.
And, I have been eating a tasty pork tenderloin melange all week. Can't taste the blood at all.
Ah, the treacherous mandoline. I have been tempted by those... mini-lightweight-chain-mail? knifeproof gloves. But I'm not sure how you clean them, and food prep items Must Be Cleanable in my book.
(and the mandolin preventing you from playing the guitar did entertain me)(also: the pork sounds delicious)
Posted by: KC | February 25, 2019 at 10:58 AM
KC - quite cleanable, as you see mine is all plastic and metal, with a screw at the bottom to make increasing widths. I just maxed out the width and put it in the dishwasher. Also. I have always thought it was spelled with the e on the end, but one dictionary entry mislead me. Spelling corrected.
Posted by: TheQueen | February 25, 2019 at 05:00 PM
Ah, sorry, I meant that I do not know how to clean the Magic Sharp-Edge-Proof Gloves after using them.
(I do own a mandoline, although it's one of the old, primitive models and is also blunt enough that its blood taxes are comparatively rare. Which also means it's not terribly useful. Which makes its blood taxes even *more* rare as it's usually easier to just slice things with a knife, so instead it remains in quiet retirement. I have considered purchasing a new one, but am attached to the tips of my fingers and hence am at a if-new-mandoline-then-also-safety-gloves-but-how-do-they-clean dead-end.)
(also: my browser spellcheck says that mandoline isn't a word at all. Hmph. I'm impressed you looked it up! And I do think mandolin is an alternate spelling that is used sometimes.)
(also-also: congratulations on your fingers figuring out the chords. It's nice when our brains click things together.)
Posted by: KC | February 25, 2019 at 07:50 PM
KC - well, I don't know how I managed to misunderstand your comment: it was quite clear. I had never heard of those chain mail cloves, but I looked them up and Amazon says they are machine washable. And, I spelled it mandoline initially, and spell check complained, so I changed it. Should have trusted my instincts.
Posted by: theQueen | February 26, 2019 at 06:09 PM