happy new year

to everyone- with wishes for a very healthy and prosperous 365 days to come.

all is well where i am currently living - not very wintery, but that's ok; no snow to shovel. it's been hell on snow in a lot of other locations.

and i am trying to discipline myself to do more work on the piano - trying to get those fingers moving just a little faster on the scales, and attempting to learn how to invent in improvisation. yah, that's what i'm trying to try to try. translation: i procrastinate a lot.

so here's a photo or two from the hilarity of the last night of the year. although we weren't gigging, like we were in 2009 on that evening, still, it was fun to be one of the crazy revellers.