I hope you enjoyed reading about my trip to San Antonio. I had such a good time. Before I left for the trip, when I’d tell people I was going they all tended to ask “who are you going with?” or “are you going with anyone?” When I’d say I was going just by myself, I would get one of two reactions. Either people would say “good for you” or something along the lines of “wow, I can’t imagine doing that”. When I got there and people would ask similar questions, I got much the same response and what I’d tell them, at first was ‘I don’t know enough people crazy enough to go do these things with me’. And then I’d tell them ‘The way I see it, if I want to go do it, or see it then I need to just go. If I wait around for someone to go with me I might never get to do or see it.’
It was really interesting traveling on my own for this trip. I’ve traveled on my own before for specific things, like the ZBrush Summit, or visiting relatives (but is that really travel, or even being on your own). I’ve done a little travel for work but really that’s not the same. I’ve by far done more traveling with a companion or two of some sort. This trip was different. I very much enjoyed traveling on my own. I’m not really sure how to explain it. I guess to some extent I found it more horizon broadening. But that doesn’t really fit. I could say it was more freeing or liberating but that doesn’t really fit either. Maybe with that, and my posts about the trip you can get an idea of what I mean because I’m not sure I can put it in words that don’t sound preachy or philosophical. And that gets into lots of words trying to explain it. I can tell you though, there are lots of things I want to do and see and now that I’ve got a taste of doing it on my own… I’m just going to go do and see them. And you can read about it when I get back.
For now I’m back home and trying to figure out what next.
There’s plenty to do. I’ve got guitars that need re-stringing, paintings to finish, songs to learn. And that’s just for starters. It’s time to get going on some computer art projects that I need to do or just want to do. And then there is the normal stuff that keeps cropping up like chores and maintenance things. It’s funny, because it’s a little bit of a stunner to realize it’s already April. You’d think I’d be feeling like I was so far behind and rushing to catch up but somehow that’s not the case. I think I’ve been running along holding onto the side of the car since the year began so there’s no catching up. It’s all just holding on and running with it. Someone wrote me a note at Christmas asking if I was ready for 2018. I happened across it today and thought, oh my gosh, it’s already April and I’m still not ready for 2018.
There were some things that I wasn’t able to get to before I went to San Antonio that I’ve started working on. I finally got the last video from the March Blues Jam split out into the two songs and posted on YouTube. You can check them out, I have a link to my YouTube channel there on the right. I also had guitars that needed new strings. 
Particularly the Gibson that I usually play at the jams. The strings I ordered for it came in right before I left and there was no time to change them so that had to wait. I’ve since got them changed out and I’ll be playing them in this week so they are ready for Sunday.
Oh. That’s one of the most immediate of the next things. The April Blues Jam is coming up. I will, of course, be going. I don’t know that I have anything new to be playing or singing. I didn’t really plan on adding anything to my repertoire for this go around. I only planned on learning the words to the songs that I sang and didn’t know and polishing up other songs. However, I might have inadvertently learned a couple of new ones. We’ll see if they make it to the stage.
The Ovation painting is still coming along. I was able to work on it this weekend and I’m closer to finishing out the second pass of the flame red. That should get finished up soon and I’ll be on to working on the blending layer next. It’s not a lot to share on that. It’s a process that takes time and I seem to be always running out of day, and night.
Even after all the excitement of the San Antonio trip, I’d still like to have lots of news of things being in the works and big progress on something this or that. I don’t. I think I’m still re-grouping from the trip. I’m trying to figure out how I want to do things next. Or maybe what to do next. I may have to give up trying to ‘figure it out’ and just start doing. Sort of like carving out and shaping the surfboard while riding the wave.