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Just A Plain Old Tuesday Evening

Spent my just at home.  Nothing super special going on.  My mom texted me and said she just couldn't put her cat down today.  So she spent the day with it just holding it and petting it and making sure it wasn't in pain with the little cat meds they gave her to give to the cat.  She said tomorrow she's going to try and take it into the vet.  It's hard to let go.

When I was visiting the cat yesterday she seemed not too good, but she was still purring when I was petting her so I don't think she's in a ton of pain.

From what I understand you can keep the cat comfortable and let them pass on their own... or you can have them put to sleep to make sure that they don't suffer any pain.  My mom wanted to just try and keep the cat comfortable and let her pass on her own... but lots of people are saying that even with the pain meds the cat can still have pain and so it's better to put it to sleep.

I just kinda spent my evening here at my place.  Worked on random things.  I'm back to still making mixes of my new song since I have a new setup and it's allowing me to do things I couldn't do with the other one.  But I'm definitely about to just finish it.

I was notified today that my adobe cs6 shipped.  Currently my cs4 doesn't work.  So no photoshop or dreamweaver or premier.  Once I get cs6 installed I can start working on videos too.  My new macbook pro has a 720p camera built in so when I start my next video blog that will be in 720p widescreen instead of the 640x480 format that most of the shots in my last video blog had.

What else.... let's see ok... So I did some thinking...

For me to play the open mic every thursday at Steel City it costs me: 3 dollars in gas, 3 dollars to park, 3 dollars to get in, 3 dollars for a drink... and then maybe another 3 or 5 to go out and get a beer after if I do that.

So that's 15 or 17 bucks.  From all the open mics I played there... I didn't get asked to play a show... that was goal number 1.  Number 2 was to get more fans.  I got zero new likes on my Facebook page even though I gave it out every time.  And I had little cards and such.

So really I didn't accomplish anything playing there.  Although I did have fun... but... I think my efforts will be more fruitful if I apply them to another area of music marketing...

So what else costs 15 dollars?

Uploading a track to CD baby.  So the money I WOULD spend every week on open mic... I could instead upload a track to CD baby... maybe not once a week.  But I could save 60 dollars a month and upload 1 track a month and also pay for the copyright of a new track and also still have 10 dollars left over to put into a new music gear fund.  And since the 2 tracks I've uploaded to CD baby are starting to get real plays on the various music sites... that means it's actually working!  That's like hard data that shows...  I'm getting a better return on my investment by uploading recordings than I am playing open mic.

I'll still probably play an open mic here or there just for fun.  But it's going to be maybe once every few months instead.  Just when I feel like playing out to brush up on practicing.  I know I said this before and the I keep going back to open mics or playing live...

But I just seriously think there is WAY more potential online for my music.  I think by using youtube and uploading tracks to CDBaby I can reach way more people than I can by playing local.

So most of my evenings now are just going to be plain stay at home evenings and work on things.  It's funny because that's mostly what I like to do anyways.  I'm not really all that big on going out a lot.  I don't mind every now and then... but I've definitely been going out a super ton.  I'm really a stay home and watch movies and order pizza kinda person.  If I do go out... it's a brewery restaurant place for a good craft beer and a good burger.  that's definitely my style.

So the goal is to just start pushing lots of content of the online type since I think that's where my greatest potential is.