Bless me, Father, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been 15 weeks since my last confession.<\/p>\n
Oh, hey.\u00c2\u00a0 Yup, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s me– sticking my head out of the dark, tarry abyss I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d fallen into.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still working myself out of it, so I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give you all the details right away.\u00c2\u00a0 With luck, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to fill you in on all the details over time.<\/p>\n
So…where have I been?\u00c2\u00a0 What have I been up to?\u00c2\u00a0 And has my snarky, shellshocked demeanor lightened up much?<\/p>\n
Take a wild guess.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway….<\/p>\n
First, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been chained to my Macbook for a few months, learning by doing sound work on my own.\u00c2\u00a0 The results have been the current mixes of Afterhell Vol 3 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bloodbath at the Giallo Hotel.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 The folks at Transdimensional Media<\/a> and the Willamette Radio Workshop<\/a> have helped me a lot, giving me advice and feedback.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still in work.\u00c2\u00a0 Watch that<\/a> space.<\/p>\n Second…\u00c2\u00a0 Jamie started her sabbatical away from the day job in late June.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, on the surface, this fact flies in the face of common sense.\u00c2\u00a0 A sabbatical usually means more free time, not less.<\/p>\n Ah, but most people don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make the mistake we did.\u00c2\u00a0 We told our relatives.\u00c2\u00a0 What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been the real time-sink of late?\u00c2\u00a0 Them.<\/p>\n Simple reason why.\u00c2\u00a0 Best encapsulation:\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Free time?\u00c2\u00a0 Great, then you guys can drop everything and travel hundreds of miles to see us!\u00c2\u00a0 All of us!\u00c2\u00a0 Every last freakin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 one of us.\u00c2\u00a0 Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122know, before we all die.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n So except for a few weeks where we took a break and came home for this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s WRW Writers-On-the-air Workshop, Jamie and I have been traveling.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots.\u00c2\u00a0 Driving for hundreds of miles, up and down the west coast of North America, dipping a little bit into Canada as well as the usual scouring of the western US (but not before enduring some bigoted US Customs officers who ought to be pelted with oily anchovies and shoved into large vats of rancid goat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s milk every time they ever say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, one of those<\/i>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) schlepping laptops, luggage, and suntan lotion –when we have it — until every other part of our bodies ached like an all-over tetanus shot.<\/p>\n Thus, if any of our relations are reading this, and if you bugged us to go out all that way to see you… you owe us.\u00c2\u00a0 Big.\u00c2\u00a0 And you will not know the day.\u00c2\u00a0 You will not know the hour.<\/p>\n Anyway, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping to post more details and less snark as time passes.\u00c2\u00a0 We even have pictures that might be fun to post for everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perusal.<\/p>\n That brings me to an interesting question for all and sundry.\u00c2\u00a0 Is there a decent image editor for OSX that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cost an arm and a leg?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bless me, Father, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been 15 weeks since my last confession. Oh, hey.\u00c2\u00a0 Yup, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s me– sticking my head out of the dark, tarry abyss I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d fallen into.\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still working myself out of it, so I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give you all the details right away.\u00c2\u00a0 With luck, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to fill you in on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,7],"tags":[35,32],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal-postings","category-offtopic","category-production-notes","tag-livejournal","tag-volume-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.afterhell.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}