Thanks all for the kind welcome. Mostly I've been up to continuing 
with the vending route I run, which as you might guess in these 
economic times is a continual challenge, not to mention state 
politics bearing down pretty hard of late with an obvious agenda to 
nix the whole thing. So that has me considering other options and 
living on faith something will work out, haven't actually ran across 
an equal for income, but hey I'm up for suggestions hahaha. . Other 
than that I've been focusing on songwriting, gigging around the Twin 
Cities area, and taking some on-line classes at SongU.com  hopefully 
getting a certification through them next spring for Lyric Writing 
and Commercial Songwriting. It doesn't mean much as far as accredited 
ed, but does help with industry validation when looking to do 
some  instruction down the road and getting gigs. Paying gigs are not 
in abundance, there are some, but a fair bit of dues is yet 
needed  to jump to the next touring level plus logistics and mobility 
can be a challenge. I'm on a couple boards. One for our songwriting 
group in Minnesota, which is just across the boarder here. And the 
other is for the nominee agency managing the vending program here. 
One project I haven't quite written off is developing a software 
program or e-book of sorts  for blind guitarists. An accessible chord 
book. There are tons of resources on the net but not accessible. 
There is one web site out there catering to it but it is limited and 
gone backwards in a way so I'm still considering that project. 
Requires a software programmer which I'm not one, and only done a 
little research on that end so far. Now I wish I'd have continued on 
my consideration for  becoming a programmer years ago.

So that is about it. Look forward to  being on the list, probably 
mostly lurking and not babble mode :).

Brad


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