Went to Little Brother's tonight and saw Mason Jennings and Vienna Teng who were both great performers.

Turned out that Vienna Teng worked at Cisco Systems at around the same time I did. I didn't get around to asking her how she got away from computers and into music.

I really like a good performance. It used to be that hearing a good performance made me envious because I don't play my guitar enough, and I don't play my viola enough, and I don't sing enough. I would love to be really good at those things, and I think I could be pretty good, but I don't want to spend the time at least at this point in my life.

Now-a-days, though, I can enjoy a performance without feeling quite so envious. I really like what I'm doing, and good music makes me want to do well in what I'm good at, rather than making me want to do well in music.

I guess that's what inspiration is :)

pax.