Welcome to Episode 198 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest and it is Saturday the 16th of January 2021, I realised I haven't done a podcast for three or four days, which is probably the longest stint since I started there's no real reason I one of the nights I came to bed lay the other night came to bed with ghobadi I was tired I don't know what have you missed What have I missed well not really that much, and still focused on learning more about, you know, updating my knowledge about music marketing. The initial course that I did that I put into practice is working very well, I'm just unrolling it for some clients now sort of hybrid technique but it's it's cool so excited about that. What do we will do Wednesday, did I did I do on a Wednesday. They didn't think I did one on Wednesday maybe anyways we had a family day or Wednesday. And if I didn't do one I got the car stuck on a beach. We had to wait. It was a deserted beach and we had to wait until somebody rocked up an hour or so later who happened to have a tow rope and also told us how to fit a tow bar to a car where to find the tow bar and then towed us out of the sand. So that was cool. The kids played for three hours whilst on the beach very very happily, and while they did that I did a photo shoot my first one in a long time so similar to a bunch of photos of me, and also took some photos, sort of photographer. And then the final one was recording acoustic version of one of my songs so bass music video I guess just by just an acoustic rendition. And this is part of my plan this year to be playing a lot more but also to be releasing more music. I wanted to start doing acoustic versions of songs at the very first week of Jan, but I didn't just didn't get around to it basically I launched my photography portfolio on my website, and my photography Instagram profile Romeo crow photography on Instagram. And I've been maintaining those so that's good. But the acoustic versions haven't quite come up yet. But nonetheless, I'm working on them. So yeah, it was a bit windy but nonetheless I got a decent enough recording and one of the songs, and then worked for next couple of days and then today. I, we went out this morning. It was snowing here yesterday and Castro bellary, and Simona thought that it would be more snow in the mountains, which I'm sure it would have been. So we went out this morning we went up into the mountains and we went to find snow, and eventually we did find snow I mean it hasn't seen snow for years Leonardo's never seen snow so seeing him, stick his hands and it was quite funny, for the first time. Nonetheless, it was pretty cold up there about minus six, something like that. And I did another video I did another song, wearing gloves, so first time I've played guitar wearing gloves, but nonetheless I did it so now I've got a couple of songs in the bag, and I think I'll probably wait until I've got kind of four of these acoustic versions of songs. Before I sort of released the first one, then that way hopefully I'll be like a month ahead is the plan. But we'll see. But certainly, you know, the places around here are very pretty once we go to anywhere. And so it makes for very nice, very nice locales for the, for the videos, you know, outside of that, it's just kind of say, same oh no say well we got our dishwasher delivered how exciting. So after like 18 months without a dishwasher we finally got a dishwasher which might save us a couple of hours a day of washing up which is what is currently taking guy comes on Monday to fit it because he needs all extensions and stuff because of the way the kitchen is and blah blah blah. I'm boy with that. But that's super duper exciting. And yeah so tomorrow. Back, back at it for the day and see how the adverts have started for the first client. Hopefully they'll have done well like the ones that I run it for myself seem to be doing well. So yeah, all good all focused, moving things forward, and it's 20 to midnigh
