Other news?

Yeah, there's other news. Let me see.

Since I last diarised, the following has happened:

• I wrote 0 words for this year's Nanowrimo. This was substantially less than my projected target of 50,000. Then again, I was a lot more depressed in November than I expected to be.
• I have recorded half of fifteen tunes. Which is to say, I have fifteen bass parts and drum parts waiting for fifteen guitars and fifteen vocals. Or thirty vocals. Depends. Possibly some bits of piano.
• I have a Whole New Plan for the band. I'll be telling you about it in due course.
• Last week, my homeopathic aunt gave me a homeopathic mixture to be taken in goes of four drops four times a day. I suspect her of putting ground up Prozac in that shit or something. I've been on a manic phase ever since.
• Why yes, that was the week I did all that recording and came up with that whole new plan. Since you ask.
• Twenty years ago, or so, I was introduced to Courtney Pine, who my Dad had cornered in Ronnie Scott's, on the basis that we all came from North-West London. Courtney Pine told me then, and I have never forgotten, that it is necessary to practice every scale in every key.
• For the last month or so, finally, after twenty years of pretending I hadn't already been told this and basically ignoring it, I have been practicing every scale in every key.
• Courtney Pine is right.
• That'll do
• No, wait. She needs to see me. WTF?