(friendswood) easter eggs

it finally came - now my ka10 has a friend and possibly more. i'm thinking life partner. the guy who wrote the ebay ad said that the casio ka10 came with 6 cards, each of which would change the voice on the keyboard. he said one was missing, so i received 5 cards. the cards are just pieces of cardboard with holes cut in them in one or more of four slot locations. justin and i decided to see what would happen if we made up new cards with different configurations. we were rewarded with 5 bonus voices. we're not sure if other humans have ever heard these bonus voices. so in addition to the trumpet, music box, dog bark, old macdonald, and jingle bells voice/demo cards, we discovered (by cutting up cardboard packaging) the official piano voice(probably the original cared #1), a cheezy strings voice, a twinkle twinkle demo song, a lullaby demo song, and then, just when we'd thought it couldn't get any better, a RACECAR sample voice! there is really no end to the joy this instrument can bring. it just kept coming. as we were sitting and enjoying one of our new sounds, suddenly the keyboard next to justin sponaneously burst into song. we started thinking perhaps these keyboards were possessed. but, now with the benefit of a second keyboard for testing, we were able to confirm that these guys will play a song if left on for several minutes. they're pretty smart machines. the demo songs are especially delightful - if you don't touch the keyboard, it plays chords, rhythm, and melody. however, if you start playing, it replaces the melody voice with what you're playing, so you can play along to the song, or just improvise. so yeah...we jammed.



midway through this project, two roofing company guys showed up at my door and wanted to inspect the roof for hail damage. of course, they recommended a new roof. never mind that my roof is only two years old. the guy goes, "yeah, so why not just get a new roof?" i said, "uh...because it's a pain to get a whole new roof." he said, "well, i'll do all the work." he really wanted my money.