When my father unexpectedly died, my mother was alone. The only other family is my sister, but she lives 3000 miles away, and has her own family now. My life situation is such that I was able to move in with my mother. They have a pretty big house (four bedrooms), and it’s a lot for her to manage by herself. So I do a lot of the yardwork (mowing, shoveling, raking, etc), and other stuff, as well as keeping her company.

Anyways, when I moved in, I packed one of my bass guitars in the basement, and sort of forgot about it. I hadn’t had much chance or reason to really play it. I’m “bandless”, and it’s hard to find people who share the same (self-admittedly esoteric) tastes in music as I do.

With the wet weather we’ve been having, I went into the basement and noticed that water was getting into the house, due to a clogged gutter. Unfortunately, the bass guitar was sitting in a puddle. After unclogging the gutter, I took the bass up to make sure it is Ok. Other than needing a tuning, it didn’t get damaged.

This is a Squier from Fender. It’s kind of a “beginners” bass guitar. I did have a Ibanez SR-406 6-string bass guitar, but sold that, and am really regretting getting rid of it.

The astute among us might note that this is a pose, there’s no patch cable.

Now, the final irony is that the Hello Kitty Shop USED to sell a Squier bass guitar with Badtz Maru. I had noticed it in the past, and didn’t pay much attention to it. It is a Squier, black, almost identical to the one I currently have, it just has Badtz on it. Now I go look for it, and apparently it is sold out :( I googled around, and here is an image of what it would look like.

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