Starting this year, everything seems to take more effort.

The same restrictions are affecting my writing, photography...everything I love to do...everything people are counting on me for.

It would not be hard to stop playing for the public. I do over 100 hours a month of "balls to the wall" recording under contract and another 60 hours on my own projects. I just used the live stuff to meet clients for my business, and to keep the pressure of "one shot" performance at the forefront. I think that an hour of playing for people in real time is more beneficial that 2 hours of the stops and starts you can do on a studio job.

I've started the transition. I'm off motorcycles and am selling the Cessna 180. I have taken over thirty collectible firearms to a broker to sell. We are starting a Reverb store and will have over 150 stringed instruments listed around the first of the year. Four motorcycles and three cars are going to be sold or donated. Too much stuff and clutter.

After working with them for 35 years, I am resigning 5 bank customer accounts. That alone will eliminate over 6,000 miles of driving a year.

On the flip side, business from my clients in Atalanta will double soon, and I have made commitments to work on a variety of big projects for them until 2025, if I stay healthy and alive.

The University wants a commitment to complete several writing projects a colleague started. I was his ghost writer. That will take 10 hours a week for several years.

Thing is, all this stuff is equally important to me.

Next year and those after (however many there are) will be interesting.

Russ