Music today with my local friends. This is easy for me: less than 5 minutes from our house to Allan's (where we get together); and Allan has amps, drums, keyboards, mics, and a PA set up and ready to go. I can walk in with my guitar, plug in, and I'm ready to go.
This is a social gathering - I don't see this group playing out. As much of a jam as anything else. Allan makes lunch for the 6 of us, and we make some music. Traveling even lighter today, I took the new small Traveler guitar... these guys play loud, and that guitar plugged into a Marshall amp kicks. I even got to play drums on a couple songs.
What about the "royalties," Jim? Thanks for asking. This afternoon, while going through e-mail, there was one from the company that bought out the distributor that handled the e-book sales of "Cat On A Leash." Yep, sold a book.
The book sold better than I expected... back when it was first released (years ago). As you'd expect, the sales dwindled after the first year, but I still got quarterly royalties for the next couple years. Then, once in a while, there'd be a sale. It still makes me smile when a sale comes in. Almost as much as the occasional e-mail from someone who read the book. No, I wouldn't say "rolling in"... more like a very slow drip.
For anyone new here, the book was about our travels with Molly (the boat cat). My heart was crushed when her time came way too soon, but she taught us how our lives are more full with a fur baby in them. And, each of the cats since then (Izzy, Rufus, and now Murphy) have traveled with us.
Steph offered to "keep Murphy" while we go on this upcoming trip. Not gonna happen - Murph goes where we go. And with the proceeds from this recent sale, we can afford to buy Murphy another can of his "special" food. ;-)
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