Personal Life Update - We

Personal Life Update - We interrupt the Concealed Carry coverage for some just-plain-Mitch notes:

• Job Hunt update: The previous two weeks were great. This week has been absolutely blah. Hopefully it's the calm before the storm. I should hopefully start hearing about things as we get into May here. It's somewhat bumfuzzling to note that as of a week from tomorrow, I'll have been on the beach for four months. Scary. And yet the world hasn't ended - yet. Knock wood.
• Bagpipe Update: Whenever you learn a new instrument, it always goes in fits and starts. You'll have a burst of new facility, and then hit a plateau where you sort of mark time -and, if you're practicing, get ready for the next burst. In all of my other instruments:
  • guitar
  • cello
  • bass
  • drums
  • keyboards (as long as it's old Bruce or Tom Petty songs)
  • mandolin
  • harmonica
  • pennywhistle
  • curan
  it's been the same thing. But I snuck an advance look at my band's online music archive last night. Oy, vey - do I still have a lot to learn. Even the simplest sounding "real" Scottish bagpipe song, "Scotland the Brave", looks brutally difficult. But I've never been one to worry about learning to crawl when I can see all that cool running going on.
• As I noted last week, I'm still baking all my family's bread from scratch. It keeps getting better and better - this past week, some great French, Challah and Wheat loaves. I even caught my kids snacking on the wheat bread, without my having to make them do it. Cool or what?
• I haveto get away from the keyboard. I think I'll bike over to Lake Como and noodle around a bit. No good job hunting happens on Fridays, anyway...

Finally - I see from my hit logs that traffic to this site seems to have survived the domain change pretty nicely - I'm still up between 350-400 visitors a day. Drop me a line, or just leave a comment - either way is great. I'd love to know who's visiting the site.

Posted by Mitch at April 25, 2003 01:32 PM