Hello everyone. I've been silent and lurking for ages now, but news of my death was just wishful thinking *GRIN* I have a cold coming on, and too much work, and a child with chickenpox, and huge debts, and an offer of free recording time but not a whole line up to do it, and I feel like everyday I just waste more time. So, being quite a pragmatic person, as well as quite driven when the mood takes me, I'm trying to tackle them. Not much I can do about the cold except rest (probably means easing up on the work front if possible) and maybe eat lots of garlic and ginger. I'm looking for a new job. The chickenpox will go, but it's hard seeing her feeling so rough and being frustrated. I'm finally starting to clear my debts and they'll probably seem like nothing in a few months. So, the other things, which are surely linked, are the issues which are really bugging me. Because I've been skint for ages I haven't had money to replace musical things which have broken (mainly my amp). So, as things have sat in the corner of my bedroom gathering dust, my attitude had done likewise. So I've been sitting, watching telly, feeling tired and jaded, and thinking "I'll dust myself off tomorrow". I'll still not be able to afford a new amp, or to repair the old one, for at least a month. But I have started to think that even just recording a few new things into a tape recorder, playing my battered acoustic guitar is better than sitting still. MAybe a change in attitude will result in a fairy tale ending and great fortune will fall into my lap. Or maybe not. I'll let you know if positive thinking really works. PICNIC: I'm hoping to make it along to the Primose Hill picnic on July 13th. I'll have my daughter with me, but she's an ace laugh. She has (some) great taste in music, she can join in the rude conversations, and she loves DUCK, DUCK GOOSE! Take care. P x _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+