All in all it has been a good Christmas. Being into fitness lately I asked for and got one of those heart monitor watches which work pretty good. I noticed on the slopes a couple of weeks back that my phone can’t tell time when it dosn’t have a signal so when my parents asked what I wanted I told them I needed a watch and it would be nice if I could monitor my heart rate with it. I also got an ornamental mini Japanese sword, I guess you could call it a dagger, some clothes to update my wardrobe and a gift certificate to EMS so I can finally replace my climbing shoes which sport a huge hole in the left toe. I got tired of stubbing my toe on the climbing wall.

Gift giving was loads of fun this year because I was able to play some little games like wrapping up my parents old, broken TV and watching them look confused when they unwrapped the gift. Opening up the box reveled a card with a gift certificate to Best Buy so that they could buy a new TV. We also saved my brother’s iPod for last. He thought he wasn’t going to get one since my parents wern’t going to get it for him and we made it so it seemed he had already gotten a gift from my sister and I. It was great to see his eyes dim as I gave an iPod shaped box to my sister, “one last gift for you”, and then see his eye light up when she gave it to him, “oh wait this is for you”. Yep, I’m a devious one.

I’m going to start preparing to record my album tomorrow. I have a list of seven songs but in the short time I have to record them, I think it might be cut down to a three to five song demo album. The title is …at the intersection of Reason and Dream and has a nice little back story to it. I very much will consider it a work in progress and continue to add songs to it though I don’t know if I will have much time to record after this week.

Anyone in New York City on New Years may see me at some bar in the village. If anyone will be down there drop me an email.
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J5

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