November 11, 2001
Here are the projects I
Here are the projects I am working on right now, whether actively or dormant:- My novel - I'm not taking this too seriously but it is fun to feel like I'm participating.
- A ringtones site - I can figure out how to make ringtones from midi so I'm working with a site that is trying to get a catalogue together to sell them legally - I would get a royalty for how popular "my" ringtones are.
- My a cappella group, The Pieholes - I seem to have become one of the main music directors here although I'm hopeful about a couple of the other members so maybe it won't be too much of a time drain.
- Online-music thinking - I've lost a bit of momentum because I don't feel as interested in kazaa/musiccity as I was in napster, but I still keep up, and a netfriend wants to work on a website about the subject with me. (It's be nice if there was a way to make money off it though.)
- Business ideas - I'm toying with ideas on online publishing and music (sheet music) publishing
- Consulting - pretty much waiting on business cards. I want my business cards!!!
- A potential very early-stages startup on network video, just for fun - I barely know anything about this. It would be a work-for-free java project to make a prototype at which point we ask for funding, but I'm investigating it for now.
- Musicbrainz - I've severely lost momentum on this.
- Playing Nethack Falcon's Eye - my level 9 gnomish wizard died when my wand of lightning's bolt ricocheted back onto me and broke my wand of cancellation - the damage took away half my hit points and killed me. I was being so careful, too. :-(
- Real Estate - I'd like to get more into this, even if only to buy a house myself - but maybe there are career things I could look into.
- And finally, piano. I don't have any goals for this right now, that's the only problem - if I had a house, I could put together little recitals of friends. If I can make up with my composer friend I can potentially have another project going there, too - and if I get off my butt and compose my Stonecutter song for piano and soprano, I might be able to get someone to sing with me - but that is a major effort I can rarely muster up the energy for.
Other than that, I'm mostly trying to make new friends. Other than my a cappella group (that could work out well), I've got two Beths and a Kate that are very early-stage potential friends. Eventually I might be looking for a romancey woman friend also but right now the thought just exhausts me. I haven't exactly resolved things with Tamara, but right now, in our "not-talking" stage, the thought of talking with her kind of exhausts me, too.
I guess what I should probably do is go through my projects and fine-tune - ask myself exactly what it is I like and don't like about the prospects.
Posted by Curt at November 11, 2001 12:24 PM