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Here we are in 2006. It's going to be a great year -- I can feel it.

The last few weeks of '05 were insane for me. Work plus shopping plus Infantile plus rocking left little time for anything else. I spent a fantastic holiday with Kelsey's family in Redding and then flew back to Chapel Hill, NC for a headlining gig at Cat's Cradle, which was a lot of fun.

Looking back on the year, it was certainly an eventful one. My kids' clothes company got some exposure and some legs, which proved to be a lot of work. I moved into a killer apartment with my girlfriend. I got even more serious about playing music, playing in two bands at one point. It was the first year of full-time self-employment. A lot to handle, to be sure. Too much to handle, actually.

This year will be the year of focus, of simplification. With mixed feelings, I'm in the process of shutting Infantile down. Toward the end of last year I quit Chinese Radio and focussed my efforts on io. I'm not going to overbook myself with work.

My resolve this year will be to chase the dream. It may sound pie-in-the-sky, but I don't care. I'm eliminating distractions and aligning myself with other people with clear vision. There is truly no time that I am happier than when I am making music, so I seek to do that as much as possible. Getting into the business end of musicianship is strange, for sure, but if that's what I gotta do, then so be it.