Today was back to doing the Phonics songs. But…. I couldn’t get anything done!! It was back to sitting down, playing the keys, pressing the buttons but nothing came out!! What a contrast to Friday!!! Wow, it’s amazing the difference. I wonder if the cloudy weather had anything to do with it? So back to…

Today I popped into the set to produce a recording session for another CD project I have, this time to help junior high school kids. It’s not quite genki, but it is something that really, really helped me learning languages so it could be really good!

Today was great, I got two songs written and recording, first time, first take. Fantastic!!! Great, oh just imagine if everyday went as well as today! So for the first time in ages I could relax in the evening knowing I’d done a great day’s work!

Now this is more like it!!! For the last 3 months I’ve been really struggling trying to come up with some cool productions for the new phonics CD, it’s gotta be genki, but credible, and it’s very difficult. But yesterday I got a new music computer and wow!!! This is so great, just playing around…

Tried to do some music work in the morning, but it didn’t really work. The new software synths I have sound fantastic, but less like Genki English and more like Terminator 3! Not very useful. When I did get something going the computer crashed. Hmmm. In the afternoon I had a meeting with a teacher…

It’s amazing how much email builds up after only a couple of days. I also wrote the Japanese newsletter and my newspaper column, the final one of the year! There’s also a problem with the autoresponders for the orders. The latest thing is viruses hitting them with fake return addresses, which then triggers an order…