Concert Trip Reports Updated

Due to my continuing (un)employment situation, I've had to make some cuts. One was to cancel my photo storage account which contained many pictures from my concerts (compared to other options, way too pricey, anyhow). That meant I had to go back and update many of my concert trip report pages and remove links to photos. Once I choose another home for pictures, I'll add a link in the main trip report page.

While I was at it, I made a couple of other updates to my very first Nashville trip report and my Dallas trip report. At the time I wrote those, I had to leave out a couple of details which, frankly, at the time would have caused some fan jealousy and drama had I left them in. But I think enough time has gone by and circumstances changed so I can now include those details.

It's been very interesting to look back on some of those reports and see just how much has changed since then. Obviously, some big life changes happened to me (can you guess which ones?). We also lost dear people and places since these trips happened. I am grateful that I was able to preserve some of those memories in a small way by writing those trip reports. Someone told me recently that my reports had a sense of sweetness and wonder about them. I think that's fairly accurate. I can see a bit of "wide-eyed-ness" in describing some of these events. Basically, though, I always strived to be as descriptive and positive (yet, honest) as possible when I wrote them.

If you've visited my trip report page before, take another walk down memory lane. If it's your first time, I hope you enjoy reading them.

"Things To Do If I Had Time" List

I've always had this list in the back of my mind of some things I wanted to do if I ever had a chunk of free time to do them. Since it's not certain how long my "hiatus" will be, I decided to take a look at what's on that list.

One thing is watch my DVD collection more often. I've done a little of that, but I have actually spent more time straying beyond the favorite channels on my TV and seeing what's out there.

Another is learning to play the mandolin. Checking out the price of mandolins, that's not very cost-effective for me right now. I do wonder if I should learn to play guitar first. Some of those are cheaper. Although, when I've been at the songwriter get-togethers, I couldn't even grasp some of those big guitars they've had there. I'll keep that one on the list.

People have been at me for years about my speaking voice (you don't want to hear me sing...really) and encouraging me to do radio or voiceover work. Someone pointed me in the direction of a good voiceover studio in Nashville. I gave them a call and the cost for doing a demo was pretty reasonable. I did have a demo done last year or so that my friend produced for me, but this time I'm looking for a bit more variety and types of copy that I'm interested in doing. I located a collection of royalty free copy and bought it. I'll look it over and see what works for me. So, maybe this one will move up to top of the list. My fantasy would be to do this and get one job that would pay back the cost. If nothing else, it should be fun.