What’s to reflect on this my 24th year of life? Well, graduation faces me and it’s amazing it took so long but now I sorta wish I had the money to make it last a little longer. Why? Because there’s so much else I’d like to learn. I can’t stand the classroom thing, sitting to hear a lecture, but I need a lot more hands on practice and education. A master’s degree isn’t around the corner but it’d be a good way to procrastinate my pending future. I say pending because of it’s uncertainty.

I wish I could go back to 21 and just stay there. 22 sucked. 23 was much better. But now I’m 24 and I have to stay here for a while. I don’t wanna be 24, but my philosophy is don’t judge something until you’ve given it 100%. So I will have to give this age a year to judge how I like or dislike it. Because of the huge transitions I face this year, I expect 24 to be very different than most of my other years of life. 18 wasn’t a big deal because I only moved from Houston to Dallas for college. Moving back to Texas from two years in Colorado will definitely be another adjustment, especially since my dad’s moving to Texarkana and getting married. I plan to stay in Houston at least until the end of summer. I have one job perspective with a church in Friendswood but that’s not a sure thing yet either.

I’m glad that most of 23 was learning how to be a legitimate mixing engineer in the live setting. It prepared me technically to do many other things. Part of me loves knowing how to do this kind of thing and I could definitely settle in a position with a good band doing this for a while, but another part of me now wants to take what I know technically and use it musically. I sorta miss playing publically. Being in a band is much different than running sound for a band for so many reasons. But it’s definitely been a great thing running the sound because of the fact I’m producing the first CD UCF has ever seen. Maybe starting a tradition, maybe not. It would be pretty dang cool if they asked me to do it again next year for some reason, but I’m surely not counting on it.

Well, welcome 24th year of my life.