So it only seemed like it was 52 weeks ago that I was looking back at 2005, but where the heck did 2006 go? It was the whizziest year ever and frankly it was what I call a “middling year”. Nothing much to crow about really. At least nothing died or fell off, right? So it is 2nd January and The Missus has gone back to work and I am in deepest darkest misery. Why? Well firstly because The Missus has gone back to work and left me on my own with Alex the Wonderdog, the Yellow-Headed Noise Beast and the Aquarium of Fecundity. Also, on the last postal days before Christmas, I was delivered a triple whammy in the form of my credit card bills (Christmas cost how much?) and my tax bill for payment by 31st January. So I spent the morning weeping into my cheque book and settling my debts. I do feel a lesser man, a couple of grand lesser. Yowser.
And so as I pay one tax bill, my mind instantly thinks of the next one due in July and how the heck I am going to raise the money to pay it? Ever since I got shafted for six months cash last year, I have been paying catch up and I just don’t know how I am going to make up my losses. Oh well, I am sure something will come along…it usually does. And so I resolve myself to tidy my workspace and make an effort to find more work as there is zilch on the horizon. Again, I am sure something will come along – it usually does. Gee – ever the flippin’ optimist, ain’t I?
Well the free Textures download went down well over Xmas with the file shifting nearly 6Gb of data in a week. Wowser – I worked out the math and it reckoned that there might have been over 200 downloads of it – if that is true, that’s just under double the amount of CDs I’ve sold in the past three years. So maybe I should just start giving this stuff away in the hope that someone might throw me a bone once in a while?
Meanwhile, for a laugh, I read one of those yearly horoscopes over the Xmas period predicting my next 12 months. Now I am not one to believe in this fairytale mumbo-jumbo, but a couple of details in it really struck a chord – apparently everything is going to change in September. Mmmmm…I predicted that last year at Chez Lock and it came true (a change of job position for The Missus) so maybe it is going to happen again. But then again, I know something you all don’t know…
I haven’t done any proper recording for about a month and I am trying my best to ease myself back in the creative frame. What to do? While doing the vacuuming the other day, the album title “Speed of Sound” came into my head. Great! Now I just need to record the flipping thing. D’oh!

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