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Buy Nothing Day
It's that time again folks. The day after Thanksgiving is the biggest spending day of the year in the United States. We buy useless gifts and presents and bury ourselves into debt, and for what? Some absurd excuse to fill our own whimsical desire for affection when affection is attained by spending time with the person you love.

So boycott waste. On November 28th, put away your credit card and support Buy Nothing Day. Check out this radio ad for Buy Nothing Day, then check out the Buy Nothing Day website.

Busy, busy, bus
So where've I been? Busy! With MP3.com disappearing on Dec 2nd, I've been scrambling to get everything into order. Would love to start a Celtic version of MP3.com, but I'm really not sure if I can get the resources necessary to make it happen. I know I don't have the technical know-how, that's for certain. Staying focused on it has been tough. I did, however, compile a list of websites offering free music downloads.

And if you're looking for some extra cool websites, I compiled a list of 21 websites offering free Celtic music downloads. It's a pretty cool list, to be sure. I'm also hoping to add more of my own.

I was also checking out latest poll and it's looking like I need to upgrade my MP3s to a higher fidelity. 24kbps is great for dialup, but seems most of the people voting in the poll are using a much higher fidelity. I guess, I'm alone in that aspect. My computer at work crashes too much when I use higher fidelities. Ah well...

I have been brainstorming the idea of creating my own Celtic music internet radio station. Going back and forth on it. Wish someone else'd run it though since I don't have enough time for all i want to do... *sigh* ah well. Maybe I'll just have to get off my tush and do it.

Soul of a Harper is coming along. Still a couple more things I need to fix, but the song selection is now set. Thirteen folk and Celtic songs and aires. I'm really excited about the tone of the album. The mix is nice, it's fairly mellow overall and just feels kinda warm and homey to me. I could see someone snuzzling up with a loved one by a fire with the album. I think I did a pretty good job of capturing the title, Soul of a Harper, but I"ll let you be the judge of that.

Well, that's all for now. We're taking off at noon for Louisiana to hit their Ren Fest. Three weekends there. I'll try to pipe in when I can, but I suspect I won't have a whole lotta time what with work and music. But I'll do my best. Hope to at least post a few extra poems to Marc's Musings. Take care and I'll talk to ye next week!

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