First post of 2010

Well, I'm on another train, by mid feb, it'll have been 2 months since I got to spend more than 5 nights at a time in one place (and that's at the outside.) Managed to cram death (of a good friend), disease (shit/puke bug, no new year's diet for me!) and despair (related to the other two and also to the lack of sunlight, abject lack of cash, exhaustion from big drives and much travelling, and not seeing enough of my peeps. It reminds you it really doesn't take much for some of the key props of mental health to be removed and everything else starts lurching around.
I am also feeling pressured about needing to write a couple of cracking songs to complete the album.
On the upside, the pressure is my own invention, I have learnt some great new tunes, and the out of all the confusion have made some new friends. C'mon-we're nearly through with January! Better days will dawn again.

idea

Just got to get this down so I don't forget...reading Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, which speaks of the 10 000 hr rule (to get good at stuff) what about chronicling one's own 10 000 hr journey? the changes in physical appearance as you get older, other life events, what the consequences are...