Has it really been over two weeks since my last post? Wow! A lot has happened. My wife accepted a new job with Essilor Labs, it's a long commute, but she feels that it's an excellent opportunity and she is very excited. I accepted a promotion at UPS to "International Training Lead" which means that I will be commuting down to the San Diego hub and training all the new hires brought into International. The good thing about my promotion is that they are allowing me to only work when I have classes which means I could be off for weeks at a time. That's very important because with Brie commuting I'll be back to being a full-time stay-at-home-dad again and I need more time to focus on my music.

I spent March 22-25 in San Jose helping my friends Sean and Amy move into their new house. We had some interference from the weather as it kept raining on and off. But we did manage to get everything moved and I set-up their living room and surround system. I think they are really happy with my work, which makes me happy. It's a great house and couldn't be more perfect for them at this point in their lives. I got to eat food from a few of my favourite places, it's tragic when besides seeing your friends the most anticipated part of a trip is eating the food.

I watched quiet a few DVD's while I was there so I have quite a few reviews to write up. But right now I have to go get a haircut.

Cait and I had a long IM discussion this week about the band and our lack of work. It's been decided that we would try to get things back on track, the first thing we need to do is get a new 8x10 and Bio of some sorts to include with our Ep. Someone within the industry has asked for copies so they can shop it/us. I don't expect much to come from it because I don't think any major label would get us and what we are capable of doing with the right label. Secondly, we are both starting to write new songs using only our respective SY77s. This will allow us to transfer material back and forth much easier over the internet, it will also allow us to focus on songwriting and not arrangements. When I write a song I tend to write and arrange at the same time since that's how my mind works. I look forward to the challenge of focusing on just melody, chord progression, structure, and not spending 5 hours just on sampling and drum programming. Our goal is to write a catalogue of strong songs then get together and arrange them out with my full rig, we would also like very much to have other people use our songs and keeping them in simple demo form will make that easier.

There is some big things happening in my personal life too, but I am not ready to put them here for anyone to read just yet. I'm still grappling with how much of my personal life I should share here. I myself would share everything, but I need to respect my family and friends who are often a big part of what I want to share. It's not my place to discuss things that would make them uncomfortable or feel like I was sharing their personal lives without their permission.

Making music has been on my mind a lot lately. My gear sits in front of me everyday and doesn't get used. When Cait and I moved to different cities I imagined we would continue to work on material, but we haven't. In the two years I have lived here I have only managed to write ½ a song. Most of it has to do with the fact that I work at night, the only time I have write, and I have a lot more responsibilities on the home front now that I have three kids and to be honest I get much more pleasure out of them. However, I need to find a way to get regular songwriting and practice time in because I feel like there is a hole in me. I finally have a music making rig I like and I don't use it, how ironic. We will more than likely be moving soon and my hope is that I'll be able to put the gear together in a much more condusive setting as to encourage me to spend time working. It's very frustrating that I have all these songs swirling around in my head and I just can't find the time to get them out.