Woke up this morning and I couldn't see out the window, ice my friends...ice and what the ice was obscuring was snow! and tons of it falling in great sheets swirling in the winds around the boat. Now that I have walked into the city Helsinki and have found my usual haunch at a counter in Cafe Java with enough time to take an accurate survey there is a good 15 cm of snow on the ground. I am so very glad that I purchased my new boots before I left (Thanks to Bob at EMS) because I would be boat bound and bored cut off from the world via the wide web. So now I can accomplish the task for the day which is post cards I didn't forget you my friends to the west they will be on their respective ways by the time you read this.
I am posting a couple of new songs that are very rough at mypace.com/4strangecourage take a listen and let me know what you think I would love some feed back. They may not be up until friday so bear with me. Practicing scales has really improved my sense of timing as well as clarified my ability to play lead lines and riffs in between chords and lyrics. I know that I have touched on this a number of times already but it really excites me that there are things that I never could wrap my mind around just a few short months ago in terms of melody and phrasings and speed. Then there is the fact that I have gotten this far (12 years) without any sort of regular practice routine and what that means in terms of possibility. Empire! (to quote Tom Appert)
So as I sit here in the middle of Helsinki, Finnland and think about Philadelphia, Bend, Red Bank, Berkeley Heights, Sea Bright and everywhere in between I am watching dogs frolic in a huge pile of snow 10 ft high and wondering where my next "pile" of fun will come from to frolic in.
Peace out Cub Scouts
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