Don’t Let Debt Be A Struggle For you

Don’t Let Debt Be A Struggle For you

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Don’t Let Debt Be A Struggle For you Tight finances If you’re not in a secure job with a decent wage, the chances are you’ve had to deal with debt at some point in your life, and that can really make you struggle. Having debt can affect you on a daily basis because you’re constantly having to make cutbacks on your purchases. It might not seem like much if you have to skip out on your morning coffee and maybe miss lunch, but some people have to take it even further. The restrictions that debt brings can be suffocating at…
Unplugged 2: snow daze are no ways

Unplugged 2: snow daze are no ways

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My whole life, staying focused has always been a challenge. As long as I'm doing new things, exploring new ideas, doing new tasks, and pursuing creative projects I can keep that in check (usually by multitasking so I'm bouncing back and forth from one thing to another), but it takes work to, you know, work. So to suddenly get slammed with a fairly big snowstorm that keeps the family home, thereby extending their winter vacation home by another four days, isn't exactly a boon to focus. Love them, but it's a small house, and no, I don't have a dedicated,…
Trying to unplug in a plugged-in world, day one

Trying to unplug in a plugged-in world, day one

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On January 1, I decided to unplug from social media for January (aside from the social media work I do). No more checking in on Facebook or Twitter or anywhere else. Just use the Internet as a tool rather than as a distraction. On the first day, I put together a rough mix for a lengthy music recording session I did over the holidays that may or may not turn into an m2 project, cobbled together rough but quite serviceable fan "movies" pieced together from Star Wars Rebels episodes, among other odds and ends. And obviously, I worked that whole…
5 Things You Can Do Now to Start the New Year Less Stressed

5 Things You Can Do Now to Start the New Year Less Stressed

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Whatever your personal challenges or achievements in the past year, I think as a general rule we can say that 2017 was pretty shocking and unexpected. From changing political situations, scandal after scandal, and some terrible natural disasters, there was a lot ot cause stress and make us worry. Now that we are in a new year, it isn’t going to just magically disappear. But what can change is how we react to it. So here are some things that you can do as we go into the new year to start it off right and to stop it stressing…
My first new music for 2018: “Coming Up For Air,” by m2

My first new music for 2018: “Coming Up For Air,” by m2

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This is the new m2 record, my ongoing music project focused on guitar soundscapes, drones, and dense ambiance. It's outer space music. Music to write or meditate to. The sound of ocean waves and the moons of Jupiter; of machinery at the bottom of a canyon and of being 100 feet beneath the water. I almost dropped this in the autumn of 2017, but I ended up spending quite a bit of time fussing with the third track, removing it, putting it back, fussing with it some more. Ended up using a severely shortened version of it (about 4 minutes…