As we move closer to the end of the year and take a breather from all the holiday bustle, I’d just like to take a moment and say thank you for coming here and reading my teaching blog.  This has been an open diary and forum to reflect on what’s happening;  –mainly in the music industry side of things.  I’ve pondered opening a music theory “House of Pancakes” blog to deal with the first year theory curriculum (the most important of all things!)….but I barely have time during the day to reflect upon the music industry side.  I would encourage my colleagues to try this education blogging;  –it opens lines of communication and expands my classroom and my thinking.  That can be a really good thing when you’re a stuffy old college professor who’s over twice the age of his students.  Some old geezer who wears a tie most days and needs to clean up his office;  –that’s me. 

In other news, I recorded with the Digidesign tape saturation plugin.   I stuck it on a master fader track and would have to say that my first impression is that I like it, but I need more time to really figure out what it can do.  It’s an expensive plug-in but Santa was pretty good this year.  

Posting has been and will continue to be light this week as I’ve been doing a lot of traveling and holiday chores w/ family. 

 And thanks again for reading.  I really appreciate it!

If you’d like to read a post about gratitude with grace, I’d recommend Louis Schmier’s holiday post.

Peace.

J