Catching Up

Friends,

I haven't written for a while, so I thought I'd use the long pause to update my communications from mass mailing to blogging.

I received my AARP card in the mail yesterday. I'm not yet 50, but apparently I'm close enough. I suppose that means I should figure out what I want to do when I grow up. I always have been a procrastinator.

I'm loosing teeth and gaining titanium. The dentist inserted a metal screw in my jaw last Friday morning. I'm not sure if he used a Black and Decker cordless with the 90 degree chuck adapter or what. They rendered me unconsious and I told them I really didn't want to know the details of what they were going to do. I suppose they made a pilot hole first. Anyway, I'll have this fake tooth paid off about three years after my mortgage.

It seems there are three kinds of people on the planet: those who think it was a really bad move to attack Iraq, those who think it was a bad move to attack Iraq, and George Bush.

To catch you up on the fall, I went to Lebanon on September to make a film. (You know that I'm a film-maker want-a-be.) I'm still working on it. You would think that if I spent that much time it must be amazingly complex. But it's not. It's pretty short and straight-forward. I just have a lot to learn. Anyway, you can view a slideshow of some of the pictures I took at http://www.myspace.com/slivermoonglobal. Click on "My Videos." Lebanon was amazing, I loved it, and I want to go back to several places in the Middle East ASAP.

We drove to Iowa for Thanksgiving to see our grandkids (and Andy and Heidi too), and over Christmas drove to Denver to see my family, then to Iowa, then home. Katy was home for a few weeks between semesters in Granada, Spain (fall) and Paris (spring). It was nice to have her home.

Susan and I visited Seattle a few weeks ago. Week took a boatload of pictures and video. I'll have a slideshow up pretty soon at http://picasaweb.google.com/tim.fuchtman.

Mark is stationed in Hawaii. I guess that means we'll have to go visit he and Ari pretty soon....

I'm moving steadily towards developing my own business doing World Music programs in schools, and producing educational materials. You can't believe how many steps it takes to start a business. Now I need to actually start making some money!

Texas weather (minus August and September) is still amazing. It's January, and today the bank teller said, "It's pretty cold out today, they say it might get down to the 40's." Yikes! And it's sunny too. We did get some rain for a few weeks in December, but before that one of my guitar students told me she wanted to wash off her windshield and forgot where the windshield wiper switch was.

I'm going to borrow a phrase from Katy, because every time I read it I like it more:

Peace out!

tim