Flying In Under The Radar

Well, since my two favorite blogging sites are blocked here for the time being, I've been staying away from posting any new posts. Probably the wrong thing to do if I wanted to keep in touch with folks.

New flickr account for The Terrace with all the recent photos and events is available here.


Look for new posts on The Terrace and Sugar Rush blogs soon.

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New Songs

Did covers tonight in my solo show of High and Dry (Radiohead) and Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen). They went over well. I'll try to get them recorded and post them somewhere where you all can hear them.

Also working on some new originals, one called Stay The Course and another called Try to Understand. Look for those to be finished in the next couple of weeks (don't want to put too much pressure on myself!).

I think I've got the bug again, folks!!

New Year 2007

As I have done for the past I don't know how many years, I spent the holiday season away from extended family. That's a hazard of working in the business I do (live music for the unitiated) and although through the years I've become accustomed to celebrating the holidays at work, it's still difficult to be so far away from those that always make the holidays such a joy.

Having said that, we had a wonderful time last night at The Terrace with all our new friends from here in Shekou. In fact, we've had 3 great celebrations in December with our loyal patrons: December 16th was our one year anniversary. It was an emotional night for me as one year of blood, sweat and tears hit home. I managed to fight through it, and genuine thanks go out to all the great friends we've made here in the last year. Then in was Christmas Eve and of course New Years Eve.

I'm looking forward to having the time in January to finally write, rehearse and record with Sugar Rush. I'd also like to take a break, even for a week, from The Terrace and recharge the batteries. I can really feel it today.

My boy Mathieu is growing up, five years old now and he really wants to spend more time with his Dad. I'll try to give him more this month as well.

Then there's reading, catching up on the music I've missed. And writing in my blogs!

Trying out Performancing

This is my first entry using the Performancing extention for Flock (based on the Firefox browser, try it out, it's awesome!). Although Flock has a built in blogging editor, I though I'd try this out. With this many editors conveniently at my disposal I should become a writing machine.

Just tell you about a few of the exciting things I've come across recently. As a Mac user I'm always looking for all things Mac that tweak my attention. I found that recently in the form of Spymac.com. It's basically a Mac community that also provides the ability to blog, upload photos, and provides free email among other things.

But the most exciting part of it is their Spymac Club which gives you 3GB of web space, 3GB of email space, and 3GB of photo/file space. It also includes a fantastic suite of software called Spymac Hub. This thing really gives Mac.com a run for it's money at a measly $25 bucks. Check it out right now as there's a trial offer of 30 days.

But be careful you don't open multiple accounts as you run the risk of being banned for a period of time.

I'm still very high on the wordpress.com services as it's free, ad-free and easy to use. You can have multiple blogs and its easily tracked by way of Google and Yahoo. I truthfully haven't come across any other blog that is as flexible and beautiful as this one. Blogger's nice, but this one has it beat just for it's look and custom themes.

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Blog-lover

I'm addicted to blogging! There, I've said it. Feels much better to get it out. I know all except one or two of the civilized world actually reads the posts that I've written over the last year or so, but for some reason I still love to see my stuff out there and thrill in the possibility that someone, anyone might actually read it and get something out of it.

I'm not organized enough to make it regular, and not willing to spend the money to have it linked up to the greater blogosphere, and for now I just consider myself a novice at this, but I can see sometime in the future that I will graduate to the next level and have regular posts on one of the many blogs that I have become something more than just my personal journal (phew! holy run-on sentence!).

This particular blog is just such a journal, any thoughts and observations that I might have the inclination to jot down. I have several others, but the main ones I've been paying attention too are Yahoo 360 and Livejournal.

The first step is admitting you have a problem, so there it is: blogging is my weakness!

Keeping perspective

There are so many times I feel down on my luck, out of sorts, even outright depressed about the state of my affairs. Nothing anyone says seems to help, none of my remedies seem to work, and there seems to be no way out of the mood.

At these times, some perspective is needed. Call it the "Theory of Relativity". Every situation, no matter how dire, can be compared against some other situation we've heard about, some situation that's far worse than the one I'm in, and suddenly I don't seem so bad off. It's not a way to solve the issue that I'm having necessarily, although there may be lessons to learn, but more a way of easing the burden.

To take it a step further, it often suffices to just go out of my way to help someone who is obviously in some kind of difficulty, which then
takes my mind out of what I'm dealing with, even temporarily, and places it on something more productive.

The truth is, those moods I get in are what seem to be never-ending downward spirals: the more I think about it, stew on it, the worse I feel. And at the same time the situation is not getting any better.

Why am I sharing this? Don't know really, just thought someone may get something from it.

Just getting it started in here...

Like the title says, this is just a test.