Everyone Sounds Great

Last night, I went downtown, where "Friday Night Live" was
going on in a park near the State Capitol building. Apparently, it goes on every Friday night, and was what people were talking about when they told me in Scotlandville, that I needed to play "on 3rd street, where people appreciate music, not around here..."
Geek Speak
I never heard from the guy that was going to buy me strings, so I rigged my guitar up, using a trick that I had used before, placing a low A string in the slot where the totally shot G string had been, and tuning it to a G (one octave below the normal pitch)
This creates a sound which can be interesting, changing a lot of chords to have a different note in the bass. For example, a common C chord becomes C/bass G, and an F chord becomes F/bass A, because the relocated string, even though it is in the middle of the six strings, sounds like the bottom string in most situations (the only conflict to guard against is having it clash with the actual bottom E string, but this can be avoided by avoiding that string entirely, or using it to play a G note on the third fret, which will double the pitch of the string which has migrated to the third slot)
Are you following me?
Anyways, I made about 25 bucks and actually had a lot of fun seeing which songs that I knew would be the most interestingly transformed by the unorthodox configuration.
That being said, it is almost 3 p.m. now. I have an "all day" bus pass, which I have already used to come all the way out here to Bluebonnet, where I found no music store at all at The Mall Of Louisiana, which I went to, gambling that there would be a music store in a mall so grand and pretentious as to call itself The Mall Of Louisana, as if it were the mall to end all malls...
So now, I will use my all day bus pass to go all the way back downtown, a 45 minute ride, and then all the way out to another mall, where I was told there was a Guitar Center, and where I should have gone in the first place.

There is a Blues Festival today, I'm hoping it's tonight and not already in progress. I could use at least another 25 bucks.
Howard got an all day bus pass too, and got off at the LSU campus area, which he is familiar with, and that seemed to suit him just fine.
I had better hurry, because, as fun as it was to do experimental music (and I found an excellent [acoustically] spot in front of a closed business...there is no lack of closed businesses in this country, but that is a subject for another post; another day...where the modified guitar and harmonica sounded so good that I can modestly say that the sax player 50 feet down packed up early and disappeared because his spot had no reverb, no slapback echo, and no pitch reenforcement in the range of his instrument...my stuff was almost playing itself...it reminded me of singing in the shower; everyone sounds great there, don't we?)