I have to say that one of the reasons I don’t like Facebook is that it sometimes reminds me how well others are doing professionally while I’m stuck in an unemployed funk. I just saw a post from McKinley Melton indicating that he got tenure with a promotion...

I’ve continued to work on my coding skills while I am still at mom’s house (I should have enough money in my bank account tomorrow in order to get home). I have been working on my JavaScript and jQuery skills, so let me share a few things I have done and wr...

Today I have been struggling with new vocabulary such as getters and setters (don’t understand them, really) as well as the words truthy and falsy (I understand these perfectly well - they are just annoying words). I have been doing yet another JavaScript t...

While I’m on a roll, let me keep going. Let me now pay specific attention to aspects of my musical practice I wish I kept up with but don’t really. It helps to be reflective of them, even if I don’t take the time to do it regularly. I know this may be a bit...

I’ve been very productive in my writing lately discussing my musical practice from various angles. I have a bit more energy for writing just now, so let me continue on with yet another angle on practice.

Everyone else has left, but I’m still at mom’s house following Thanksgiving. I have a negative bank balance and no food in my house. I can’t afford my own bus ticket, and even if I got home, I have nothing to eat. Valerie needs to find out what happened to ...

I still have some energy after writing more than 800 words in my last post. Let me continue on writing about my musical practice, organizing it differently. i’m fining this to be very productive contemplation.

I helped my brother Beazle mix up some old spackle earlier today, so that’s whereI got the title for this post. I don’t really have anything so say about spackle, but I thought it would make a good title. Or, maybe not a good title, but funny. A bit funny.

Yesterday was Thanksgiving, so today I am recovering from the food coma. I just went for a walk on the beach with mom and Beazle and Brooke, and I’m about to go to the store with mom and a bunch of the kids. This year I made much more of an effort to social...

I have had a negative bank balance since Wednesday of last week. Valerie tried wiring me the money she owed me last Wednesday, but it hasn’t shown up in my account yet six days later. Meanwhile, I wanted to travel tomorrow to get to mom’s house for Thanksgi...

I have a few sites up and running that are in various states of development. Today I spent a little bit of time leaning a bit more about using Wordpress and getting the site a bit more tight. I think there is quite a bit about Wordpress that I haven’t reall...

I hate the term “loner.” I am not a loner, I just prefer solitude. I wish I had more opportunities to socialize with people, but I recharge my batteries best when I am alone. Solitude helps me to cope with the onslaught of the world.

I can’t concentrate on much today, so I may as well write. As has been my intention with this blog, writing is a means of contemplation and relaxation. What I like most about writing this blog is that I put no pressure on myself as I write - I don’t try to ...

Today I have been struggling to keep myself on track with anything. I have tweaked my websites a bit, but I haven’t stuck to anything in particular. My guitar is calling to me, but I haven’t picked it up yet. I wasted a bunch of time just checking out Faceb...

Every time I write about repertoire I end up just listing all the tunes I am working on. Let me just write a bit about a few tunes, commenting on different versions, how I feel about the arrangements I’m working on, which ones I want to perform with a group...

I have just spent a bunch of time updating my LinkedIn page as well as my GitHub portfolio site. I really need to kick my job search into gear so I can have some success this year.

I finally got Moodle working on my computer, so I spent some time writing up some teaching materials in order to present a portfolio site. I need to get out some of the materials I have on planning for online courses so I can go through the entire process. ...

Here’s a simple list of the tunes I am currently working on as chord solos. Let me just publish this list and revise it later.

Most of my musical practice for the past several months has focused on learning chord solos, all of which are so-called jazz standards. Recently I have hit on a few other aspects of learning these tunes that I think I need to expand upon.

It seems I have been taking quite a few breaks from the regular writing habit I developed a few months ago. I really need to get back to it. Doing this regularly helped my sense of confidence in my writing, allowing me to get quick at blurting out a lot of ...