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February 2011 Update

Okay, so yeah I have been absent here for awhile, as my buddy Whelp was just pointing out.  Note the sequence of events, though: I got a new computer and the best studio ever available to me in my life so far, I proclaimed this excitedly, I disappeared.    Makes perfect sense to me.  Hell, I dedicated all of 2011 to getting a better grasp on my technology (and then added more and more, and more on that below) and it’s only freaking February.

Learning takes time and effort to become experience.  I know this very well and put it to my advantage by arranging new habits and learning to do them by rote through conscious repetition.  I am very much a handmade, homemade, experimentalist poking-about sort of musician.  There’s just a lot new to poke about in.  When something strikes me the right way, I run with it and a song is born.  This process is far from fixedly simple for me, though.  Again, this is part of what 2011 is to be spent on/in. 

I also now have some video stuff going on at YouTube.  I added a reasonably sufficient video card to this happy computer and got some video software of a level that is perfect for me to jump right in and start learning.  This is also much of what will be doing in 2011 (I am writing this while waiting on my first longish video to test render, even).  Why am I not blogging the videos?!?!?  Because I am mostly doing near daily weather reports for my area, from my limited aspect here in this house I almost never leave.  And cat videos.  And some casual vlogging mixed in.  If you want to get to know me better as a person, the videos are probably a good way…but I don’t wish to fill this blog with that stuff.

I will reserve this area for the stuff that really stands out for me, and mostly that means music.   I mean, if you don’t know this, I have this other page that is updated at least a couple of times a week with links to things I have absorbed lately…Links for Whelp, as above on this blog, but moved to my own website for easier updates and no reliance on WordPress to not crash a post that took weeks to write.  :/  Links for Whelp is where I will post ALL the video links I make, as Whelp will watch them in his long boring night job.     Then he will say encouraging things, as he always does.  He’s a useful friend that way, for sure.  This page is for him, not spam or anything nefarious.  See for yourself how freaking simple I keep the code.

What else?  There’s more?  Yes.  I have also been very busy with making new jewelry.  I just packed the beads up for awhile, but I have to go another couple weeks of beading sometime here before Spring kicks in for real– the weather here has been pooie for days after 2 or more teaser weeks of springtime.  Wah, huh.  I am already missing the sun.

I also reopened our Etsy store.  I only have 10 items in there so far, but there’s some crazy stuff coming soon enough.  I have a lot of different bugs vying for the right to fly up my ass each day, WHICH IS JUST HOW I LIKE IT!  Trust me, I need the distractions and the more occupied I remain, the better my mood, the easier it is to deal with my day-to-day health issues that are not going to go away.  :/  Not a pity plea, just a fact, jack.

I also also made us a Facebook page for Braplets.  I don’t use FB much, but Manda does.  I just like the easy ability to post pictures of every single piece of jewelry that I make from now on and have an archive, as they are each individually imagined and designed works of wearable art.    I think of the thousands upon thousands of bracelets that I have made and not photoed…and then am just glad that technology finally gave me the ability to capture, archive and share so easily.  Regret won’t help…but I have been doing this for ten years and barely started taking pics in any earnest last Fall….  Look to the future, live in the Now.  Huzzah.

Now I will go back up this page and add all the appropriate links.  It is 4:36 in the AM here and I have not been to bed since my nap from 8-10 in the PM.  I very much need to and the video is at 87%…woot.  Peace.  (Update: it beat me in rendering.  I hope I didn’t miss any links.  Much love.)