Waiting

Apologies for the lack of posts this week. There hasn't been a whole lot going on. Just waiting.

Last Saturday we sent a bunch of songs to our producer. He will listen to them and give us feedback, telling us which ones he thinks are good enough for the upcoming album. But we gave him a lot to listen to, and he has a gazillion other things going on, so it will take a while to hear back.

I'm trying not to think about it until then.

On the ME/CFS front, we're still waiting for the release of the FDA/NIH paper, the one that supposedly confirmed a link between XMRV and ME/CFS. It's been weeks since we've heard it would be published within weeks.

Here's hoping there will be something to report on soon—something that is actually happening.

Here's hoping it's good.

Preproduction

For the past few weeks, Ron the Drummer and I have been making scratch recordings of some songs that we think might work for our new album. Today we sent the last of them off to our producer. He will listen and tell us which ones he thinks are good enough for the album.

Oh, did I mention that we're making a new album?

Yeah.

Though this has been in the works for a while, I've been reluctant to say anything here. I don't want to jinx it. A small, irrational part of me really believes that if I announce it publicly, everything will fall apart.

But it's time. I initially told myself that I'd go public when we started the evaluation recordings. Then, when the recordings were underway, I decided I'd post after we started sending them to the producer.

He has all of them now. So: we're making a new album.

Did I mention that we're making a new album?