Slow going right now - elbow / tendinitis pain, Windows 7 headaches, many other bandwidth demands...

It's been a slow few weeks since my last post, I'll give some indication of items causing delays in production...

• I've been suffering with a weird tendon/ligament pain in my right elbow for many weeks going on several months now. Its a strain injury I'm sure related to a fall I had back in the winter - I think I hyperextended my elbow and as a result pretty much everything I do has been pretty painful. It started becoming noticeable when simply picking up my kids - the pain in my elbow from the strain was sharp and limited my strength. And it's been getting progressively worse - even now just clicking my mouse and typing on the keyboard are problematic and I need to find a more comfortable position to do this, usually with my elbow resting on the armrest but it can be awkward to do this and type... I've got a tennis elbow brace on my forearm now, it gives a bit more stability but the weakness and pain is still there. A trip to the doctor will be necessary soon...
• I've been having some fun with Windows 7 on my DAW recently. Bluescreen on shutdown caused me to investigate, and I found that I only had 10 GB left of 120 GB on my main boot drive (SSD). So I spent some time Friday night moving the master partitions (Boot partition and the system partition) over to a new 256 GB faster SSD - this would provide about 130 GB of free space on the system drive and alleviate some of the issues. I also formatted the original system drive and set up a large Virtual Memory (Pagefile) allocation on it - going to the SSD with the pagefile will improve the performance of the system immensely. Well... since then I've had the system bluescreen once again last night - result of a driver update was what the message said. I'll be watching this carefully since having to format and reinstall my OS and all the software would be a serious pain in the ass. There is a risk in waiting on catastrophic failure though - there is no certainty that its not a SSD issue and I'd be best to replace that going forward...
• ah the vagaries and demands of home ownership... pulling our heads up into bright sunshine after a long and dreary winter usually results in abject shock and horror as we confront our front and back lawns. This requires much effort usually spent over two or three weekends ripping out "dead" plants and then putting in new ones to replace. For me - as I'm usually safety challenged and hurt myself with certain regularity - its an occasion to reflect on a lack of physical fitness, effects of aging, negative connotations of UV radiation, etc.. but yet we do this and in the end it's declared to be all worth the effort. Compound this though with the needs of attention and physical activity for the young boys, and the sports aspirations of the oldest boy (baseball season my boy!) and you have a very busy Rob to try to contend with. We're also going through early discussion and feasibility assessments for vacation property ownership, and time is a commodity that is rare.

Bottom line - the music thing has been delayed, and I'm going to be synching with John shortly to check on his progress. My suspicion is that I've failed to provide something (I think tempo maps or at least a written tempo map for each song) and we're in a waiting period until that gets delivered. With my new 27" 4k displays though I need to make time - both to get John his tempo maps, and also to resolve item #1 above. Getting this resolved will be crucial to my efforts, and with a couple changes in gear that will allow me to do better multitasking (an Arturia MiniLab USB keyboard for one) I hope to move forward and have something audible for your pleasure soon.