Turning Bad Planning into a “Learning Process”

In this Corpse Diary entry, I explain how a complete lack of planning was very generously rebranded as learning.

With the Jackson away getting restrung, I dug out my thirty-year-old Tanglewood Les Paul copy — a guitar I’ve had since I was about sixteen. That lasted about five minutes, until I realised it had no strings and no bridge. So off it went to Tanglewood support (My brother), who somehow managed to return it two days later with new strings, tuned to B, and fitted with a bridge from an actual Les Paul. Ironically, the bridge ended up being the most expensive piece of equipment in the entire project.

With the guitar finally usable, I got back to finishing the third track, The Body and Blade, and immediately hit the next wall: my MacBook ran out of memory. Apple Support’s (My brother) advice was simple — stop cutting corners and buy a Mac Mini. Naturally, I asked for a cheaper option.

Instead, I bought a proper external hard drive, moved all the GarageBand files onto it, and suddenly the laptop worked again.

Guitar sorted. Laptop sorted. Problems solved. For now.

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