day and night, night and day

Awoke in the early afternoon. 15 minute sitting and then made an overdue phone call to CS.

In the evening, watched Serenity on satellite TV.

Then it's ear training on Absolute Pitch Blaster (I think I've been through about three hundred waves of Space Invaders-type aliens, and I'm still working on several octaves of C). I've noticed lately during the exercises that when I hear C in a chord, arpeggio, or melodic bit, the note seems to light up in my mind as it passes, as if to say, "I'm C!"

Guitar practice. I find myself shortening the strap to raise the guitar a little higher in response to work on Position of Readiness. It seems to be a more comfortable position for relaxing the right arm and allowing the guitar to support the weight. Some practice standing. When sitting, the lower edge of the guitar brushes my right leg and I have a habit of leaning the guitar on that leg and then slouching onto the guitar.

Several iterations of a gradual pressure exercise on the right hand to inhibit a tendency to reach down into the strings with the pick, way farther than necessary. I'm trying to get calibrated to using mainly just the tip of the pick. There's also sometimes a strange reaction to look at in the ball of the thumb in response to putting pressure on the string.

First Primary in the left hand, no-tempo practice looking at balance and transfer of weight between fretting fingers, especially when switching strings. I also notice a sympathetic reaction in the right hand, where it once again goes way too deep with the pick.

My Petersen tuner cannot seem to get a satisfactory sound on the low G and C strings, and it shows drastically different intonation in response to how I have the eq set on the preamp. The harmonics within these heavy strings also seem to be skewed. The 12th string harmonic shows flat vs. an open string that is supposedly in tune. Then when I tune the fretted low D and tune it to the open 4th string D, and my ear tells me it's correct, the tuner then shows the string to be flat across the board, both fretted and open. Maybe the tuner has trouble tracking these low strings (although it doesn't seem to have any problem with my Fender bass). When in doubt, I'll go with my ear for these two strings.