KevinMurphy.

off the clock

I am a guitar playera concert chasera blues believera rock disciplea jazz nerda funk evangelista jam-band converta gym regulara home cooka cat dadan animation enthusiasta student of buddhisma meditation practitionera pickleball converta restaurant scouta new-tech enthusiasta technologista road-trip romantica lifelong tinkerera video-game liferan RPG dieharda guitar playera guitar player — A '57 reissue Strat. A PRS CE24. A Taylor acoustic when nobody wants to be loud., a concert chaser — Spafford. Goose. Phish. If you know, you know., a blues believer — Jimi Hendrix is my hero in life. Albert King, Muddy Waters, and yes — John Mayer's blues chops are the real deal., a rock disciple — Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. The rest fills in around them., a jazz nerd — I'm there for the improvisation, not the names. Anyone who can actually solo over the changes., a funk evangelist — Cory Wong. The Meters. James Brown. Vincen García on the modern side., a jam-band convert — Long shows where the band actually goes somewhere. Setlist forensics on the drive home., a gym regular — Strength + zone-2 cardio. Boring works., a home cook — Stainless only. No grill. Top-shelf meal preps. Working on the butter-basted ribeye., a cat dad — His name is Ralph. He runs the house. I lease space., an animation enthusiast — Studio Ghibli, Arcane, Spider-Verse. Frame-by-frame people., a student of buddhism — Pema Chödrön. Thich Nhat Hanh. Eckhart Tolle's Power of Now on a re-read every couple years., a meditation practitioner — Daily-ish. Some days I just stare at the wall., a pickleball convert — Yes I bought the paddle. Yes it was worth it., a restaurant scout — Hidden Phoenix lists, road-trip detours, never the highway exits., a new-tech enthusiast — Claude Code is the daily driver. EVs and climate tech eat the rest of my attention., a technologist — Day-job senior engineer. Off-hours it's indie SaaS and whatever model dropped this week., a road-trip romantic — Sedona at golden hour. Big Sur in the rain. AZ-89 in October., a lifelong tinkerer — Take it apart, put it back together, learn what was actually broken., a video-game lifer — Pokémon Blue on a Gameboy Color got me started. Now the Steam library's deep enough to be embarrassing., an RPG diehard — Started on Runescape in middle school. Now it's Elden Ring and BG3 eating weekends.A '57 reissue Strat. A PRS CE24. A Taylor acoustic when nobody wants to be loud.

Off-hours. The taste comes from somewhere — these are the rabbit holes that fund it.