New Tama Royalstar 6 piece kit

Here I've got a 6 piece Tama Royalstar kit in Red Stain. This kit is made from 6 plies of inner mahogany sandwiched by plies of Shina wood. The Royalstars were made in the 1970's & 1980's, and were a step above the Rockstars and Imperialstars Tama was making at the time. I took all the hardware off these drums and gave them a good cleaning- water and a cotton cloth for the shells, '00' grade steel wool for the rims, lugs and mounts, and gave the old heads a clean. The kit has some dings in it, but all in all a good players kit with enough sizes to mix and match from a simple four piece kit to a huge 80's rock set up.
Sizes:
10x9, 12x11, 13x12, 14x13, 16x16, 22x16. includes 3 era- specific Tama cymbal stands; boom stand, straight stand, and hi hat stand. Price: $600.

My decision to choose this as my blog

The three journals I have looked at are Twitter, Livejournal, and Blogger.  I had a look through Twitter first- it has a simple set up, which I like, but it won’t do what I want to accomplish with my blog. The posts are too short, and when looking through a list of following,  the microblogs are not distinguishable from one another and the way they’re written does not flow to my liking. The constant @names are unattractive and make reading the blog bumpy. In addition, I need to talk about a lot of things on my blog: information about the drums/cymbals/hardware (brand, series, size, age, condition, etc.), my thoughts, and my price. A couple lines of text will not be able to accomplish these prerequisites.

                The next blog site I looked at was Livejournal. This was a step in the right direction, but did not particularly stand out to me. The site layout reminds me of msn.com- WAY too busy. Livejournal is trying to be msn.com/myspace/facebook all in one. The cheesey ‘gifts’ you can buy for $0.99 cents reminds me of the ones facebook had years ago. The polls are unnecessary space fillers. The ‘writer’s block’ question seems like it’s trying to appeal to egocentric people- the question I’m looking at is: “Do you keep your LiveJournal a secret from someone?”, which doesn’t add anything to the site. The site also has lots of ads.

                The Blog I finally decided on is Blogger. I had an account two minutes after starting the application process and from there I could customize my blog with ease. I haven’t seen any pop ups or things to deter people from following my blog. The options for customizing my blog are great, simple, organized, and clear. Feels like a standard way of setting up a personal page.