It's New Year's eve. Well, for some of the world only for a few hours and not even for other parts. Here's a time where New Year's is celebrated locally, if one celebrates it, and it happens every hour like clockwork in some different time zones for hours. I'm not sure but I think there are 24 time zones. And by the time the last time zone begins, it is the next day in the first. I tend to think global. For many of my Facebook friends, New Year's happens hours before it does in my time zone, ye

I've been away for awhile now. I didn't go to any physical space, I went away from virtual space even though what is here is very real and the access is in a virtual space. I just needed to clear some things out before proceeding with the strength and focus I needed to get back to my passion, my blog, and to learning the techniques and sharing with the community here. I'm not fully back, but will be soon. So, the title says planes. And unfortunately a commercial jetliner is missing. Of course,

Yosemite is the name of the latest revision of Mac OS. I'm a Mac user. I'm not an iphone or ipad user and this is relevant. Since Apple makes both and had a signature, very detailed look to their products, a photo-realistic look, ios7 was a big change from its predecessor. Some people welcomed it and others didn't. The heavily 3-D, very detailed look changed to a more popular, in-style "flat" look that relied more on colors but seemed way less detailed. But, there's something that I didn't real

Yes, I took a few days off not visiting and being very active in WA. My niche is improvisation in music and not this past weekend, but the Saturday of the past weekend, I spent a full day interacting with others doing this at a workshop. I'm a regular there, some folks were graduating, moving on, going out and spreading the techniques of the organization into their communities. This ritual, this graduation, is meaningful. The graduation is a performance that can contain audience participation,

I do music improvisations that I post to a site every event that goes from every Thursday night to Saturday night. There are times I'm very inspired and have a well of ideas and other times where I'm much less. I try to be consistent in posting at least 2 a week, so what do I do when less inspired? And what do I do as I've given myself an "assignment" to do them. If we here are giving ourselves an assignment to work on our blogs, create content, maybe tweak a few site elements around or add cat