No house sale leads us to rent out our house in Dungannon. Four bedrooms (or three with study if you like), OFCH, double-glazed, low-maintenance garden, off-street parking plus garage, back shed, close to shops, town, bus stop, motorway. £450/pcm.

Okay, so I recently bought a P4 Hewlett-Packard desktop, a P4 HP laptop, Pro-Tools and a SM-57. This is in preparation for doing some recording, but doesn't mean I'll be getting around to it for some time.

The job-hunting is still going on and, as such, still no permanent place to set up the gear (can you imagine the looks I'd get if I got it all going at the caravan?)

This was done when I was giving guitar lessons all those years ago and I had a Yamaha acoustic guitar (it was taken from my car one morning within a year of buying the bastard thing, but that's another story, as is the time it kep going out of tune during a lesson, but turned out to be the bridge ripping itself from the body).

At the time I didn't acutally have a "healthy eating plan". We didn't have a frying pan at the time and just grilleed our sausages and bacon, etc. I just missed having the occasional fried egg. Most of my disposable income was spent on booze at the time, so I wasn't exactly what you call healthy-eating. It was so contrary to what I was at the time, that it seemed funny enough to do.

I seriously though I was singing harmony at the time. I adjusted the varispeed on the recorder, changed the key on the guitar (or did i just capo it?) and sang along as I recorded the next track. I didn't realise that I'd been singing "unison" but in a different pitch of voice.

Vocals and guitar were recorded simultaniously to save tracks (this is dates back to the day of 4-track cassettes don't forget), so there would have been three sets of voice and guitars as well as bass (root notes with the occasional Eddie Cochran flat-nuetral roll, as was my bag).

We tried this tune a couple of times with The Come Ons, but Glenn couldn't get to grips with the chord progression. I thought there was nothing strange about it, but then, some of the "grunge" progressions I created around that time would have been "odd-ball" to the more "traditional" musos [sic] of the time.

Efforts to keep my MySpace updated seem to have fallen by the wayside within mere days of creating the damned thing.

When I was laid-off last year, the plan was to look for work around the Coleraine Triangle as well as Dungtown, but once the caravan season closed (we have a mobile at Skerries in Portrush) that was put on the back burner.

Anyway, wifey had enough were she was working so both of us began to seek work in the Triangle. She succeeded, and so far I haven't. Our house is on the market and I am continuing to get employed in the area.

My present job is Term-Time in a school, so I'll be up there from July regardless.

With all the job applications and getting the house ready for sale, and making an effort in preparing stuff for the move, I have neglected to do more with MySpace. I had planned on digging out more material by The Come Ons (a band I was in '97 - '00) and my solo demos, but those will come in due time.

This site was always seen as my CV for getting my next band/project together, and one track is hardly enough to tempt anybody of my skills. LOL.

I seem to remember creating a myspace.com ID years ago, but who knows what happened there. Maybe it was removed because of lack of use, or maybe the American band called The Come Ons nabbed it. Fair play to them! They got much further than we ever did.

Anyway. I'm still playing music. Just enough to keep the poker in the fire. Not writing songs though. Thinking about getting a two-piece pub outfit going. Cover versions - that's were the money is!

Hopefully I'll get some of my tunes up on this here yoke for the world to hear. Maybe even rerecord some of them someday.