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Day Sixty Four

I didn't feel like working today. Instead, I wanted to stay home and spend the day plotting my record label that I've wanted to start for years now... if I'm not mistaken, I've made mention of this fact in this space before. Using my better judgment (and ignoring my feelings), I went to work anyway. It was by no means a terrible day. I found out that I got my Saturday efore off on the 16th for the Brandi Carlile concert in Cedar Falls, and I worked with good people. As usual, there were some good people who came in, and some not so good. About halfway through my shift, it dawns on me that I keep getting ahead of myself. As of right now, I have no other band's music to release on this hypothetical label of mine other than my own... aside, perhaps, from a random project one of my co-workers keeps talking about doing. Anyway, considering that my stuff is nowhere near done, I ought to get that squared away before worrying about the label. Helps to have something to release before finding someplace to release it, right? So, as exhausted as I am tonight (and as early as I need to be up in the morning), I need to square away some of my own music before I pass out. I don't need to finish anything, but I do need to get a solid handle on where it is I sit at the moment.

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