DJ Business Status: 2004-01-14
Wow, Joe! That’s a big piece of news. Congratulations. What prompted this?
Yes, I’ll be a good reference for you.
Yep, I have a girl friend. Going on six months now. We’re getting along very well and it’s nice having a lady to talk to who really cares. She’s the twenty year-old who I might have mentioned a while back.
The business is going well. I have 26,300 songs on the computer now and my 200 GB drive is getting full. So I’m going to have to switch to a 2-drive configuration.
I’m writing an Access database for the music to speed up searching and to make the two drives act like one so that I don’t have to be concerned about which drive a particular song is on. The database will hide those details.
Did three gigs in December. Also, I have so far, three potential gigs coming up over the next few months. I’m going to try and step up the pace a bit. Last year, I did about 12 gigs. This year, I’d like to do 15 to 20. We’ll have to see how it goes.
I haven’t done much writing lately. The book so far has 70,000 words. I guess I’m still trying to find my “voice.” Writing a book is like shooting at a moving target. Just when you think you know what you’re going to say, you learn something new that changes your whole perspective. That’s happened several times on this project. So, right now, I’m in a kind of wait-and-see mode, and I’ll start writing again one my point of view settles down and stops changing so much. 
I’ll give you a call sometime soon and we can chat a bit about your upcoming venture.
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Tom