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[kittydesade]

まい　sheets of paper, T-shirts, CDs, records, photographs
ひき　dogs, cats, mice, small animals, insects, fish, amphibians, oni (Excuse me while I giggle madly at knowing what oni are, even if mostly in a vague sense.)
ほん　pencils, pens, bottles, cans, belts, ties, trousers, necklaces, rivers, roads, guitars (?)
さつ　books, dictionaries, magazines
つ　oranges, apples, balls

Right, then. Going with the original plan, using this as template
いぬが　さんびき　ここに　います。
Now if I can remember to fix the rest of these at work I'll be doing fabulously.


かみが　にまい　ここに　あります。
T-シャツが　ごまい　ここに　あります。
CDが　はちまい　ここに　あります。
しゃしんが　さんまい　ここに　あります。
てがみが　よんまい　ここに　あります。


さんびき　いぬ
いっぴき　おに
ごひき　ねこ
ななひき　こい　（？）
はっぴき　ねこ
にひき　とかげ

はっぽん　えんぴつ
いっぽん　ネックラス
にほん　ビール
ろっぽん　ネクタイ
さんぼん　ズボン
よんほん　ジーンズ（？）
はっぽん　... cables. Neither of the definitions in this dictionary covers computer cables. (Which is a bit odd since it's a pretty recent dictionary.)

いっさつ　Javascriptの本
ごさつ　じしょ
ろくさつ　テキスト

And then my brain died... Oof tired.


And that, your Honor, was when I realized I had absolutely no idea how to read music for the guitar. Oops.

Also when I accidentally switched to a Russian keyboard instead of a Japanese one. Dammit.

Oof. Tired, achey, I think because I spent two days down with a head cold and then two days running around work to both catch up and deal with the absence of a co-worker. And now my legs are trying to kill me.

I'm sure this was going to be a more introspective and interesting post at some point, but no. My brain really has completely fled. Some guitar helped. I practiced Who By Fire and was roundly lectured by one of my AlsoMe's who's a musician that if I practice that for ten minutes a day every day I will indeed be able to play Leonard Cohen and see, I was getting faster already. Which is true. I just need to stop convincing myself that the only thing I can play is crappy Pink Floyd. My playing being the crappy part, not Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd is awesome.

I did also discover, actually, that it's not that I can't strum. It's that I can't strum to the music because I'm way, way too caught up in getting everything to sound exactly right and there's no real way I can, right now, pick up every correct strum the same way every time. There just isn't. So... possibly what I need to do is practice rhythm and chords on the folk songs, and fingerpicking on the classic rock where there's more of correct vs not correct. And the more I think about it, the more that sounds like a viable plan. I'm already going to be practicing whistle on those tunes, might as well do whistle and guitar, since I don't think there's whistle stuff for the classic rock. I'd have to sound that out and, ugh, time consuming.

Hah! A solution. I knew there was one. And now I write until my fingers fall off and I fall over. Or just fall over. Goddammit why didn't I think to get chocolate and/or bring my chocolate home. Ugh, sweet tooth fail.