Randyland

Finally, I get to go on vacation.

Kinda.

For the last three years, ever since we got the book deal, and we worked on Song of the Day, every time off I got from work was almost always a working vacation. And by that, I don’t mean mostly vacation and a little work; I mean mostly work.

So, the bug list for indieguide.com has been piling up high, and it’s the kind of very intensive coding work that is best done without distractions, and certainly can’t easily be done after work at my daygig at Abbott after working all day.

We have some major features that we want to put in, and I actually enjoy doing this kind of work. I’m committed to making indieguide.com the best resource for indie musicians. And completely free. And the fact that some of these new features have been hanging over my head for the last 6-8 months means that working on it will actually serve to relax me.

But for this entire next week, which I have off, I’m going to be in Lake Geneva, and I hope to do some bikeriding, swimming, and maybe a massage, too. For once, there’s no deadline from an editor (we’ve had two, remember, with two different publishers in different years), and no pool of songs that we have to keep in the bin so we don’t run out at The Song Of The Day.

You know, when they say “Don’t quit your dayjob, kid” I don’t know if they understand that, for people with a full-time job who are also committed to their music, writing, or coding projects (or all three!), that also means, “Don’t take any real vacations anymore, kid.”