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[jfb]

Well, this seems like a good day for an update. A lot of things have been happening this year, but most of them have been too gradual for me to notice and post about--plus, I've been too busy.


Remember how I was moving to Minneapolis? Well, I went to Minneapolis, but I was in love with someone in California. So after a month, I came back, and then a while later she was in love with me too. Now I live with her, and that's pretty great.

I've been working for Mirapoint, helping them develop the webmail component of their email appliance. This is the same company I worked for last year before I supposedly left town.

I'm in at least three bands:

• Tin Cat, an acoustic pop collaboration
  
• DeatHat, marimba-driven torch noir
  
• Vermillion Lies, "twisted folk"

Altamont Pass hasn't formally broken up, but has pretty much stopped playing shows. Next month I'll be backing up Avery Burke of Corpus Callosum for a couple of shows. I still play a solo set now and then, and have been thinking about starting a new band to explore my weirder musical interests.

I've been under a little stress lately trying to keep up with all my musical pursuits and still hold down a job, so I guess it's good news that today Mirapoint "let go" most of its contractors, including me. This may be the first job I haven't left voluntarily, but I'm not too upset about it.

No firm plans yet, but I expect I'll spend some time focusing on music--among other things, Vermillion Lies has a tour next month that I'd like to join them for. Then maybe I'll work on some personal software projects, or maybe I'll go find a job, or maybe something else will happen. Who can say?

Comments

[localcharacter.livejournal.com]

Welcome back, even if it's only for a quick visit—and I'm so glad to hear things are going so well! (And I include the ex-job in that; it sounds like you don't particularly need it at this moment & look forward to the time to work on other stuff.)

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it's a good time to get some breathing room.