New year

Well, as you may have noticed, I have moved my journal from a part of my website to a blog website. This is solely for ease of updating: no more will I have to actually upload new pages in order to update my journal. Hopefully this will mean more than one post every x number of months. I've moved all the old entries to this site (they are all under December 30th, because I don't think there's any way around that), and we're ready to start anew.

So, today is the first day of a new year. Frankly, it feels no different from yesterday, other than being the last day before I go back to work rather than the second last. But I do realize that there is, I suppose, Great Significance to the first day of a new year. I do have to admit to having amped up my planning process in the last few days, with a certain feeling of urgency around getting things done before midnight last night. I've decided that 2007 is the year that I really try to make a go of being a musician. Of course, nothing has actually changed from a few hours ago - I still have to work at the office full time, and spend time with people I love, and eat and sleep - but I think that I'm finally in a position to really try to make this work. For the first time in my adult life, I'm settled somewhere that I'm actually planning to stay for a while, which makes it worth investing in getting into the music scene. I am also constantly reminded that this is what I really want to do. And while it's really really hard sometimes to find the energy to come home after a day at work and work on a song, or write e-mails to radio stations, or try to network with other musicians, I really believe that it's worth doing and that it will lead towards me being able to at least try to make a living doing music. That goal is a long, long way off, but there are lots of stops on the way there, and I'm hoping to get to a few of them this year.

Anyways, that's my philosophical musing for the day. I hope that you are all having equally insightful New Year's Days (amazing what not getting trashed on New Year's Eve will allow my brain to do the next day!), and I wish you all the best for 2007. Here's to making things happen.