Friday 

Good morning!  8:52 on this cold, sunny Friday. I'm the original Cold Weather Wuss, but I'll take sunshine over clouds any day. I had one of those nights when you wake up in the middle of the night and can't quite get back to sleep. Of course in that moment, your mind recalls everything anybody ever said to piss you off, or everything you said to piss off someone else.  A little crispy around the edges this morning, but otherwise more or less present and accounted for.. Like a third of the population(and my Dad),  I have this occasional problem. Last September was the last time it happened, so I could be doing a lot worse..

Music news. Trying to get a couple new recordings off the ground. CD Baby, the company from which I sell my wares, is sometimes a pain in the ass as far as their Inspection Process. It's very exacting as far as how things have to be data-entered. Remembering having to turn in Quarterly Reports working for the State, which would invariably get sent back for corrections- sometimes several times. All this punctilious horsehockey gets on my last nerves, but you do what you gotta do. So this is mein kampf for now, my struggle. And probably why I got a shitty night's sleep last night. 

The good news is that they're re-opening their warehouse, which had been closed since last March. Maybe it'll get easier to get someone on the phone. I can sympathize with those folks who used to complain about the unemployment office and how you couldn't get an answer out of anybody. I've walked the walk, as it were. 

Skimpy as it is, that's my news for now. Still in a pretty good groove working from home, except for the 'grotty' stuff I mentioned earlier. Once this stuff passes muster, , I'll have some new stuff to share with you: The Sam Crain Quartet, which is a live album; and one called A Walk on the Mild Side, which is various trios. 

Okay. Thanks as ever for stopping in and reading. Happy Friday to you, especially if you've worked all week! For now, I'm outa here. More coffee. More later. 

PS Today's pic was taken in Japan, 1995. A group of us--actually three bands--spent a week in Ashikaga, Japan. Much fun. PPS The tune du jour is  from my album Tele-ology(jazz with twang)a rendition of Out of Nowhere which I called Out of Mohair. One of Bill Schlipf's  "alternative titles". He had a million of 'em. 

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