Friday night at the end of the Sydney International Food Festival. Surrounded by thousands of people!

Yum!

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I’ve always been able to see the good in all things.

Even this.

Free publicity for my awesome hair, stunning cheekbones and winning smile.

And, now that I’ve changed my gravatar, a reminder of my old one for all 6 of you who are following this poor chap.

This diver dude who decided my pic would make a cool avatar. Without asking me. Hmmm.

Anyway, as I tweeted this morning, before I even knew it was live happy week (I’ve been a little lax in keeping up this week, sorry), remember this:

“In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God”
1 Thes 5:18, NKJV
Notice, it doesn’t say FOR everything, but IN everything.

And for me, living a life of thankfulness is what happiness is all about.

So live happy – this week, and every week.

And be thankful someone thinks your avi is so hot they just have to nick it for themselves!

Note : I acknowledge this MAY be an error at Twitter and not theft. Still, good happy post, huh!

Along with some questions being asked on other blogs, for me this week is becoming a bit of a journey through history, so in further response to my Monday post, here’s some of the music that has spewed forth along the way.

The playlist is basically in reverse chronological order, and includes…
(a) “Unchangeable Truth v2.0″ (yes, I know that’s somewhat ironic titling) – added some hall reverb while keeping the initimacy of the vocal, also boosted the bass slightly (maybe too much?) and dropped the lead vocal to sit better in the mix. I need some studio monitors for the study!
(b) “I Am There” – the first thing I recorded in Garageband, all of 6 weeks ago. The lyric was written by a netfriend in NYC for another friend of hers who’d been through some major challenges; everything else is my contribution.
(c) “A Lover’s Song” – our wedding song, which was a surprise for my wife when we danced to it; we were both a bit overcome I think.
(d) “Your Smile” – a 70s/80s MOR love ballad pop song, which got played on local radio a few times when it was done, yonks ago.

There’s a reasonable amount of diversity in there, which might go part of the way to explaining my ‘probably not expecting this’ statement on Monday. The diversity covers everything from style to the quality of the songwriting/singing/recording; quite apart from whether it was done in a real studio and mastered, or by me in the study. Regardless, all fun.

‘Course, this doesn’t cover anything I recorded before I started writing my own music…maybe later…maybe…

Comments always welcome, including criticism (maybe especially the criticism, cos I can’t get better if all I get is praise or silence