Hopefully Really Back in Action This Time
It’s been a very busy few months. I have successfully moved to my new location in Pikesville, and gotten relatively settled in. I’ve also done a LOT of work at the old place to get it ready for rent. It looks better than it probably has for a great number of years. A good chunk of that work is complete, and I want to thank some wonderful friends for donating some of their time and energy to help: Keith, Lynne, June, Renfield, and Benj… THANKS!!! There are still some things to cross off the list, but I’m confident that these will get done relatively soon and we’re finally at a point where it seems a bit more manageable, at least.
Of course, now comes the energy and effort to get it rented. And we’re leading into a poor time of year for this, because getting it ready took so much longer than I anticipated. So if anyone out there knows anyone who might be interested in renting a place on the SW side of Baltimore about 2 miles from UMBC, I would definitely appreciate a lead. I will be taking some photos and setting up a linkable web page to help promote it within the next week.
I’ve just done a new Royalty Free Music Collection podcast and the first one in almost 2 months. I’m planning to do another sting week next week, since that should be a little easier to manage than a more lengthy piece. Even though I still have a lot to accomplish outside of the podcast, it was psychologically helpful to release something as it makes me feel like things are settling back to being normal. I’m still reasonably sure that I’ll have enough for a CD release before the end of the year, which is exciting. I’m going to start planning the packaging for this quite soon.
One of the main goals for 2010 is to create and produce some tracks (original works, digitally orchestrated) to sell via individual download, now that there will be a nice body of pieces available for free with a requested donation. I’m also hoping I can budget to go into a recording studio and record some piano playing, since I have about 4 pieces for sure I’m interested in recording professionally, possibly a few others.
That’s all for now… Here’s hoping I don’t take another 2 months to write a substantial update!