Here we go...

Okay, it's been a couple more months since I last posted and I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one reading this at the moment, but I swear I'm gonna keep this going. A lot of things have happened since we last met--

-I was promoted to HR at the store, almost single-handedly retrained the entire store when they switched to a new system for the registers. Then, about two months into my new job there, I was interviewed for a legal position that I had applied for a couple months prior to my promotion(when I really wanted out), and was hired for that job on the spot--So now I'm quite happy where I'm at work-wise, going back to a Monday-Friday workweek, with one-hour lunch breaks and a beautiful view from my office. Do I deserve this? You're fucking right I do.
-Then some bad luck--I was hit from behind on my way home from work a month ago, and spent the next few weeks waiting to get it fixed after the insurance company worked things out. I have never had a problem with my insurer, Erie Insurance--and I am not being paid to say that!
-Then some real bad news--We lost our beloved little cat, Rico, very suddenly to some type of infection. I'm glad she didn't suffer a slow demise, but it's painful to lose that unconditional love, and I wish I could have been with her the last two days when she was at the vet. I hope she didn't feel abandoned. I know this is pathetic, mourning a cat, so anyway--
-Back to some good stuff--I purchased a second new electric guitar(did I mention that I got a telecaster before x-mas?), this one is a Les Paul Studio, so beautiful--sound and looks.
-Saw Ben this past weekend and its looking good on forming a band. He knows a drummer, which is what we've been looking for, for the past ten years now.

I've also sent a copy of a demo tape to Julia, so now it's out there--in Europe somewhere. It's gonna start to flow a lot more now, especially after I get my next new toy--a digital recorder. A lot will finally start to get posted here, maybe a different page for the full "album". We'll see.

The main purpose of this enterprise hasn't changed: to document the musical activities of myself and others, as well as writing on various other cultural and political issues. I actually hope to do even more of the latter, what with an election coming up and a lot going on around the world. Things seem to be in flux, I think we could be living in interesting times...