Onward?!

I'm happy to report that the CD order is finally complete and will be printed in the next week.  The ETA for shipping is 8/23 so I'd imagine I'll be receiving them about 5-7 days later.  On one hand, this is a huge relief...while on the other hand who the hell knows what it's going to look like.  If nothing else, at least it's over (or at least it better be over) and I can move onward finally.  I will say that this whole start-to-finish CD project has been quite the learning curve, especially doing every single piece of it alone.  Now, if I can only shorten the whole thing by about 60%.  Hmm.

In other news, I also finally printed business cards.  Yes!  I'm actually knocking off tasks from my extremely long list.  I've had that one on my list at least for 3 years so I'm pleased to have that done.

It's neither here nor there, mind you, but I will say that trying to get a home remodel done while you're trying to a) mix b) write c) practice and d) basically do anything creative is pretty much impossible.  The remodel began the second week of June and looks like it will continue for at least the next month, although we're definitely over the hump at this point with the noisiest and most distracting work behind us.  It's been quite the experience, however.  If you're ever considering a remodel of the interior of your home, I'd highly suggest you prepare for all of your creative tasks to come to a screeching halt.

I'm hoping to dive head first into some mixing this week, basically trying to promise myself to get a handle on "Mirror Land" especially ASAP.  At the same time, I realized this weekend that I'm just really itching to work on something musically (not mixing) and so I think I've made the decision to finally return to the Caution Children project, basically the moniker that I chose to use ages ago for my more electronic based work.  I wrote a series of songs back around 1994, almost all entirely in my head, and they've been sitting pretty much ever since.  I started recording some of them in the late 2000's but got distracted, didn't like how it was going, etc., and so I haven't touched them since.  I went over those tracks this weekend and was pleasantly surprised.  Why start on something electronic now?  Well, it's easier than working with microphones and all of that, and like I said I'm really itching to work on something creative without it being too terribly difficult.  Perhaps this one will come to light yet.  In the meantime, I have a bunch of prep to do for the new Jazz Machine so that one should start ramping up in the next few months as well.

That's my news for now.  With a little bit of luck, maybe I can get "Mirror Land" and off of my list fairly soon as well.  Here's to hoping...