After all this time - you’re still still sitting there reading what I have to say?!
Amazing…. I love the Inter-webs.

So… After much deliberation and heartache, my life has taken about 42 amazing and thrilling turns since we last saw each other.

I am no longer working at BrightStores - which some of you are probably saying “bright huh?”.

Ok… lemme backup.
About a year ago I left Chris Finger Pianos to try my hand at professional web development. I took a job with a small company called “BrightStores” under the pretense that I would be working from home. This was a great move at first, what with my busy dialysis schedule and all. After several months though the owner of the company began looking for office space, yearning for the cohesion that comes from everyone sitting around checking sports scores and instant messaging their friends in the same building. He decided ultimately to get office space in Evergreen after telling me several times “Don’t worry - I’m never going to require you to be in an office 5 days a week.” Of course after about a week in the new office he decided that he did in fact want me there full time. Furthermore, if I was unable to be there full time, I should consider going either contract, or part time (this of course made sense given the number of hours I would miss due to treatment). I actually moved my schedule all around to try and make it work for a couple of weeks, but in the end decided I should go contract. Keep in mind, I made this decision thinking that my job would stay much the same it was, but that I would now have the freedom to work from home again not being a full time employee.
Nope…
I think I racked up between 5 and 7 billable hours of work after going contract.
Anyway - needless to say, I had to think quick and find some other way to make ends meet.
We’re still in that phase I guess, but a few exciting things have happened. I will try to enumerate upon these things in the coming days.

1) Anna and I began (and completed) training to do home-hemodialysis, allowing us to now schedule dialysis around our lives, rather than the other way around. We absolutely love it, and I am much healthier for it - not to mention I get to spend more time at home with the wife, cat, and puppy.

2) My friends over at the iO Group were kind enough to take me on as a contract employee there, helping me to fill in some empty hours with web development work. This was truly a God send, and I’m hoping it will continue to blossom and grow as a source of work for me.

3) I have started my own business venture. I have been a piano technician for more than 12 years now, and very much enjoy some aspects of my work. I have for a long time been wondering how else I can, with my current skill set, find meaningful work - how can I make a difference? After much deliberation I have decided to begin teaching piano. First off, it puts me at the piano which is where I want to be, and second it allows me to become a better student myself. I’ve begun practicing again, and am starting to crank through some new music which is fun.
I’m also toying with the idea of doing some recording and seeing if anyone might like to listen to my “music”.

Anyway - time for me to go to bed after finishing up yet another daily dialysis treatment - but things are wonderful and I am content.