2007 Here We Come!

Happy New Year! I hope this finds you well. Lots happening around Charlotte these days. Rache headed to Uruguay this afternoon. I'm really bummed that I'm not with her, but I will get to travel with her in the future. She's going to Singapore next month, too. Travel is really ramping up for her and I'm so excited. She's been wanting to get into travel again and it's finally happening for her.

Kicking Jackson has been without a drummer for a few months but things will be happening again soon. Greg Lilley is going to be jamming out with us in the next few weeks, so we should be gigging again by March. We have a promoter who's been saying he can keep us busy, so we'll see what happens.

I'm taking some classes online in Spanish, hoping to freshen up a bit and get ready for trips to South America and Spain in the near future. Don't want to look like a tourist in Peru, ya know.

I've been struggling in my quiet time, thinking about what's "fair" and "not fair." I've finally come to the conclusion that there is no such thing as "fair." Life really isn't fair, but it is what you make of it. Been doing some really good reading. Just finished The Hunchback of Notre Dame (a tragedy, no doubt), Voltaire's Candide, and now I'm plowing through Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls. The reality is that if you want to sit and ponder life's injustices, you'll drive yourself crazy.

Take, for example, a guy that was once my friend (past-tense). He treated his wife life dirt (I saw it first-hand on numerous occasions), cheated on her, and finally divorced her. He ended up spinning it so that he looked like the victim, and she totally played into his hand. And what's really amazing is that he has a business that is prospering as his disciples follow him blindly thinking he's a saint. I don't get it - how can he sleep at night?

I had an employee that screwed me over big time, stole a computer from me, and has now severed all communication with me, despite all attempts on my part to reach him.

These are the things that keep me awake at night. I wake up around 2 AM and toss & turn while trying to resolve these issues in my mind. But the truth is that there are people on this earth that have had a much harder time than I have. I mean, I don't wake up every morning wondering if I'm going to have food to eat, or if my family is going to be murdered by genocide. My "problems" wane in comparison to those of my brothers & sisters around the globe. A little dose of reality never hurt anyone.