It may be a day late but happy new year everyone. Like many people, I hope this one is better than the last (which would probably go for most people unless you had a fantastic year).

I’m not much of a resolution maker. I see how the new year can be seen as a fresh start but why can’t every day be like that? Either way, I have not made resolutions this year, merely recorded my hopes on someone’s digital camera for prosperity. My hopes for the year are to finish my A+ exam at least, and help (beyond playing bass) record some songs once we’ve finished them. There is a recording studio at Rich Bitch but it costs more and while I have GarageBand and Logic Express on my laptop I might try it myself.

On the subject, just two things to mention. My main gift at Christmas was a Boss ODB-3 Bass Overdrive pedal. I have yet to give this a try but hope for good things. I have a Zoom multi-effects pedal but they’re not very good and I haven’t got time to sit down and figure out how to make my own so I am gonna try the single pedal method. The other gift was a JamPack from Apple which covers the rhythm section so I can hopefully throw some drum beats down on a few acoustic tracks James sent me.

One impending doom which I fear is my laptop. I have a 15″ Powerbook G4 which I think is slowly dying. I’ve had little trouble since owning it, had to reinstall Mac OS X a few times through my own negligence, but now the display is starting to go like many others on the Apple Discussion Forums. I’m going to keep using it and hope it lasts a bit longer but then I will just splash out on a new Macbook I think. Hopefully Macworld will bring some nice revisions but I would like a black version.

Anyway, best wishes to you all in the new year. Hope you all have a few moments to look back on by the time its past!