New Home, new Android phone... what else could possibly change?

As mentioned, we've moved to another home - we sold our home early January and then closed on our new home in February. Which meant we had to live in an apartment for about two months as we got through all the trials & tribulations of the financing and then closing on our new home. Now that we've survived that, and we've been in our new home for just over a week now, we've been unpacking and setting up all our stuff - including getting my stuff up in my new 12x12 office/studio :)

I divested myself of some gear that wasn't working out well for me - MOx6, Novation K-Station 49, Boca 12 string electric guitar, the 60's Tribute Gibson Les Paul Studio goldtop... there's other instruments and equipment as well, but those were the major casualties of some turnover even though they hadn't been used on any recordings at all (the instruments listed above).

Setting up everything in the 144 sq ft room is challenging, as the drumkit by itself takes up almost 1/4 of the room. I don't have my desk of preference, nor a credenza that I'll convert to hosting all the rack units - but the cheap Ikea desk will do for the time being as I set it up for my home office, working remotely 2.5 days/week. My employer has decided to increase my commute by about 8 miles forcing me to drive or bus to Seattle - and that last 8 miles will add another 20-25 minutes to my commute. Which has led me to decide on working from home part of the time to save on miles, time and gas. While its nice to be allowed to work from home, I was very comfortable commuting to Bellevue daily. But such is the ways of life - I can't do anything about it at this point.

So anyways, it's 6:30 pm on Saturday night, and I'm looking out my family room window down into the Snoqualmie River Valley and north along the Cascade Mountains to see Mt Baker and the top of Glacier Peak. Its an amazing and tranquil view that helps to settle the stress of daily life, and even though the cherry blossoms will soon obscure our view, I'm very happy in our new abode.

Music News - nothing specific or at least more than what has been stated her and on FB. I'm planning on some remixing and revisiting of songs on the first three CDs, doing some cover tunes that strike me as interesting to do, and then looking to write the Dream Suite. I'm awaiting the new Gazpacho release "Demon" as it's both fascinating on its own, but also for the business model the band follows. They keep full time jobs to support families and such, but write, record and release projects on a 18-24 month cadence. That is a working example of what model I'm trying to follow - I have my full time job to support us as needed, and not being dependent on music means I can follow my muse and create the music I enjoy myself, in effect writing for myself.