Welp. It's close, but it looks like Ossoff is going to win at this point, and with Warnock already being declared the winner last night, Mitch McConnell's nihilistic destruction of American decency and decorum can finally come to an end.

What a fucking relief.

Music.

Starting taking a songwriting class that has frankly blown my mind in the first three days of this month-long class. It goes through the whole process, from basic music theory, to finding inspiration, to how to use your DAW and synths, through final mixing and mastering. The curriculum has you writing and completely mixing three songs in a month.

You go through the class with a cohort of about 40 people, and there's a social aspect to it, where you share your audio clips and progress with each other and comment/help each other out. My cohort has people from every continent and every age group and every skill level, and frankly it is one of the sweetest and kindest groups of people I've ever interacted with.

The most important thing for me is that I have taken classes on music theory, and taken classes on songwriting, and taken classes on synthesizers, and taken classes on DAWs... but connecting them all together has been a big issue. This class has already helped me hurdle several of these issues, and I am ALREADY feeling more confident/agile with my tools.

Now if I could just get this B section figured out...

Work

Started again this week. And it's good. Already got a reasonable amount of things on my plate, and they are interesting and good projects.

But, most importantly, my old collaborator from Australia (who I had a joint venture marketing business with for about 5 years) and I have started a New Thing together! We are going to be writing and creating together again, and I couldn't be happier! She's a gem and we play SO WELL off each other. Making more money on the side is honestly just gravy (and will probably go to more music production garbage that I don't need but has nice blinky lights and knobs to play with). :-/

Fortunately, the first six week long project doesn't start until February, so I can finish the songwriting class before we embark on this big ambitious writing project in mid-Feb.

2021 is a significant improvement over 2020 so far...