It's a beautiful day here in east Tennessee. Sunny and middle 60's. Did some yard work, cleaned the motorcycle, helped the lovely Hannah with the laundry, grilled burgers for a late lunch, showered and sat down on the patio with a guitar, earphones and my Tascam MP-GT1. I'll spend a leisurely 30 minutes or so pickin' and grinnin' I thought. Guitar strapped on, Tascam turned on and set to my favorite effects setup. Pick in hand, slide it across the strings and hey, no sound in the earphones. Checked the guitar cable, unplugged and replugged it. Must have the volume too low to hear, cranked it up. Nothing. Unplug and replug the guitar cable again. Nothing. Ah...must have the mix balance set wrong. Nope, that ain't it either. Well then I must have a bad cable, dang...it was ok yesterday! I'll go get another cable. Lay the Strat over on the swing seat beside me, pull the ear phones off and hey...what's this? the earphones ain't plugged into the Tascam! Plug em in and strum across the strings, loud and clear through the earphones now!!
Geez, whut a doofus I is!!!