I haven’t updated this blog in quite some time… It’s been more than five years. That’s too long. I’m going to fix that.

Like most things in life, writing is a habit. Like mental exercise. If you don’t give your mind regular workouts, it begins to atrophy. And nobody wants that. At least, I don’t.

In the time since I last posted, we’ve seen the Covid pandemic wax and wane. We’ve seen governments come and go – in some cases because of how they managed (or mismanaged) the pandemic. In some other, notable cases, people have been re-elected, in large part due to the forgetfulness of the masses.

In my own life, I’ve changed positions at work multiple times. But work, for most of us, is the least interesting part of our lives. We’ve had to put down one cat, and adopted two others. I’ve focused a lot of my personal time on music.

Since 2020, I’ve joined and left a few different bands. At least one of them is still active, which makes me happy. I’ve been playing with one band now, The Bad CatsPennies, for a couple of years. We’ve been active since 2023. We’ve played in bars, restaurants and legions around the Metro Vancouver area, and represented the Fraser Valley Blues Society at the 2024 International Blues Challenge, in Memphis. We mostly cover other people’s songs, but we have written and performed several of our own, including a couple I wrote. If I could make my living playing music, I would do that.

That’s enough rambling for now. I will try to post more than once every five years from now on.