Playing guitar every day.

tom,

If my memory serves me right. Your status gets updated automatically based on how many posts you make.

I know what you mean about picking one up when you are near one (guitar that is), I to have that problem plus if I'm in the guitar shop when I pick it up, I usually want to take it home and look after it.

Margarita not tried that but can recomend my mate, Jack Daniels.

The same is true of all kinds of memory tom .  They say there are three signs that you're gettin' old.  The first is memory loss. . . and there are two others.
It takes me a lot longer to memorise the lyrics to a song than it used to.  If I hear a song that I want to perform, I have to work at it for a week or two to get the lyrics down.  Some I just give up on or end up singing:

They say sixty-five percent of all statistics
Are made up right there on the spot
And I'm tryin' to remember the words I forgot
That I practised so hard in the parking lot.

The first two lines are from Todd Snider's Statistician's Blues and the last two are something I'd probably have to use to finish the verse.

PS - I just noticed that I must have an American version of Spell Check.  In Canada we spell "memorise" with an S instead of a zed, and "practise" is a verb, while "practice" is a noun. 

I have noticed that many younger Canucks are converting to American spelling, probably due to Spell Check, although on Facebook, people seem to use creative spelling - As long as it works phonetically, who cares if it's "correct". 

Jim, Ya, but what happens if you forget the lyrics you remembered for when you forget the lyrics? 

As farre as splelnig geos, I half no ideea watt yoor tlaknig abowt. 

Jim, Wish we had a heart emoji! This will have to suffice

TonyKgull, Jim,

Sorry but I'm the sort of person that, if you can understand what the writer is saying, that will do for me, stick your full stops were ever you want to and colon and semi colon, mumbo-jumbo just ignore them, more important things in life, like what's for dinner.

I do either or both.

Before the turn of the century, I played in a band called Late For Dinner.  We would say, "You can't call us anything you like, but you can call us Late For Dinner."

up until i restrung Siggy yesterday I was playing Amber every day working on my fingerstyle arrangement of David Foster's The Prayer. Mostly working from a piano tab, because decent guitar tabs are either way too complex or too simple or wrong key.

Before that i'd be playing stuff like Bobby Whitlock's Thorn Tree in the Garden or Leon Russell's Tightrope or Me and Baby Jane. I try to work one fingerstyle and one vocal each session.