Change Is In The Air

I was feeling a tad melancholy yesterday so I called my friends Timothy and Shelly. Talking to them is always a pickup, but it was particularly a pickup yesterday.

Timothy is a harp maker and musician. He recently went on a trip to Paris (Oui, France) to a major music industry convention- the long and the short of it is that he has walked away with one signed deal and another five or six in the works.

WAY TO GO TIMOTHY!!!!!

This is good on so many levels, its great for Timothy, who is amazingly talented and really deserves a shot at the big time. It also means that Timothy’s next album is paid-for which means that Ross will be getting some much needed business.

Timothy and Shelly have been sweating a bit lately. Because the Canadian Dollar has been so strong their American harp sales have been hurting. This is going to help them out a lot.

This will also give Ross a bit more exposure, and I’m sure that he will get some business out of this.

I think Change is in the air for me too.

There has been a very “layoffs are coming” vibe at work of late. Its made me take stock of my situation and look at my options. – Don’t Worry Pete I’m not thinking of leaving- (And I was assured this morning that layoffs have been avoided)

But I realize that I have a rather outstanding Credit card bill that I am not happy about. So I’ve decided to tighten the old belt – start brown bagging it to work and make a few sacrifices to get the bills under control.

I also have a bunch of stuff that I don’t have any use for. SO my goal for this Sunday is to catalogue and digitally photograph all of my darkroom crap. Over the course of next week I will research items on the web and the next weekend start posting stuff on ebay.

Perhaps I will even try to get rid of that 2000P printer.

Pete also came up with an interesting idea. He said I should start a Photo Blog. That will do two very cool things. 1. It will be a showcase for my work. 2. It will inspire me to go out and shoot more. He’s even offered to loan me an old digital camera and to host the blog.

Occasionally I have very cool friends