My Travels

Music is one of the great transporters of me and mine.

Everywhere I go, I take music with me. It used to be cassette tapes. Back in the early 80s when I first joined the Navy it was a tape player, more than one Walkman I had that I accidentally dropped and broke. Glad I was employed full time then.

Then years later CDs started to come out and I started changing from the one format to another. Then just last year I finally got my first MP3 player. Still I am taking my music with me where I go. On my MP3 player to listen to at work, while I walk, wandering around the local bookstore, I can have music with me all the time.

Just found this awesome music group Nouvelle Vague. Just random hit off of a twitter, someone followed there. What a catch, wander here and listen, http://www.nouvellesvagues.com/english/music.html
what a catch.

 I took a little trip today in my mind. Not a lot going on at work, so I was doing some daydreaming as well as mental planning my next steps to take to make my two (2) resolutions a reality in 2009. Both involve me starting up a business. 2 different ones in fact is the goal. One a writing / creation / publishing company in my main hobby field, the other a non profit to help other veterans and people in between work and especially to obtain degrees and training to be more competitive.

So while talking to someone I got a lead on potential free legal advice, would make the non-profit a lot easier to start up. Otherwise a simple LLC is the route to start with on that one. A DBA is the other one. So I was wandering in my mind deciding how to go about this, getting some more information and encouragement at the synchronicity of getting that information.

It is coming together easier than I had expected it to do so.

Coffee…One of the things I judge a new place, a new restaurant, a new location on. Coffee, book stores, comic book shops, gaming stores, and more coffee. It all boils down to what your interests are, those encompass all of the things I like to buy. Honestly, coffee, books, gaming (tabletop and occasional PC) materials and music, besides that I am pretty loath to spend money on it, certainly not for just myself. Last thing I like to spend money on is shoes, of any sort.

So anytime I go somewhere, new place especially, I look for local coffee shops or bookstores. Even places we go to frequently, I am always wanting to stop in each and every one of them that I am aware of. Sure I won’t spend money in each store. I might though, and it is all I want really as well.

So those are what I look for in a new place to visit. Add in used book stores, and antique stores as well to round out places to browse a lot in.

Double Cappuccino an Extra shot is the drink of choice, a little dry if possible, as the acid test. Otherwise it is Black Coffee.