So I believe a small update is in order.

I will no longer be doing (or rather, be planning to do) shortened demo versions of my music here. The songs would get downrated for being incomplete too much to get any real traffic, so less people will hear about my music, thus putting the chances of my supposed audience hearing this stuff even lower. Furthermore, I would need to be spending way too much time deciding on where and what to cut, then doing said cutting, which would put more work on my shoulders and give me less time to work on making music. Finally, I know that the people who will buy the music are people who support music makers, teachers, and ensemble leaders, who will buy the music regardless of how much of each song I post here. This is just to kind of make a few foot holds for myself in this career and to help me organize my progress, and to try and skimp out on anything regarding it just doesn't really make sense.

On another completely unrelated note, I have developed some random type of tmj, seemingly caused by frowning faces I make so often. I get comments on the ridiculous nature of my silly frowns, so I do it a lot because it's silly and people laugh like infants when you do anything weird with your face. SO I was frowning extra hard yesterday and my jaw made a weird noise. Since then it has not gotten worse, so I read a faq page of a dentist website and it suggested taking meds to suppress swelling, because that's what causes my particular problems. I took the recommended dosage over an hour ago and nothing has gotten better. That is, I still can't clamp my teeth down, one side of my jaw hurts, and jaw movements are generally stiff. Oh well. I figure I should see somebody about it, but I can't decide whether I should see a doctor, a dentist, or a chiropractor.

Also cut my middle finger today. Bled quite a bit. I haven't cut myself in a while so it was a bit weird. Not sure where that was going. Oh well.

Later