GETTING BLOGGED DOWN

When I am on the road, I enjoy blogging. There's a lot of new input--a gig every night, a lot of travel and seeing new places. There's a downtime between the gigs, with not a lot of pressing competition for how to fill the time. There's TV, reading, the occasional practicing situation when a piano presents itself and whatever practicing or composing I can do at the computer--this could be a lot at times, but often I don't feel the bug to do that with the same intensity as when a real piano is involved. So I blog with abandon on the road. At home, things are different. There is a lot more competition on how to use my free time. There are forms to fill out and bills to pay. There's my teaching commitment, and the forms, emails and meetings that that engenders. There's maintenance, apartment cleaning, cooking and shopping. And there's pianos available to practice. Also, the gigs are more known commodities. Tonight, Sophias, last week smalls, some others here and there (of course sometimes it gets busy but right now, not so much.) So I tend not to blog as much. Of course, I could blog about the things I am doing. I could talk about which health insurance plan I am looking at but maybe I'll spare you that one. (That's the amazing thing the right wing has done in the last few months--demonize Obama over the health care debate--a subject that is so intrinsically dull to me (albeit incredibly important) that I can't read two lines of a document relating to an insurance policy without having my eyes glaze over and falling into a stupor. Who would have thought they could manage to find people to go out and call him a Nazi over this topic when what he is doing is so mild and obviously necessary--and blandly unexciting. On the upside, he gave a great speech last night.) So, sparing you the health insurance topic, I'll blog about what I am practicing. Watch the next installment for that one....