It is just about over

By Robbie on December 3, 2008

How was your 2008? My wife's theatrical work kept me home for almost half of this year, making it my most housebound year since 1994. Since I used the surplus of settled time to write and record the 50-song release shortly to come (not to mention spending more time at the gym and with the children and making meals at home and all of the other mundane activities of civilized healthy people -- a/k/a "non-musicians"), the sabbatical from roadwork was a boon. Two months without gigging is too long, though: mid-October to early December was gigless, leaving me with itchy feet and tender fingers. The digits haven't been so weak in a while -- I failed to account for the muscular loss following a prolonged stretch during which most of your guitar playing is done as an absent-minded accompaniment to writing. So I'm hoping to get out a little more -- more days than this year but fewer than the 150 that's been my standard for a while -- in 2009.

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