Welcome to Episode 201 of my podcasts, have you from the crow's nest and it is Thursday the 21st. Yeah, 21st of January 2021, welcome welcome welcome. I'm running out of, I'm running out of energy. Maybe I need a break or, I think, really what I need is a change of project focus. So, energy and motivation to focus on marketing, and those last few days, ironically now that I brought in another client for audience ninja. Hopefully, we'll see if they sign up, if they pay their invoice then they're definitely a client. But yeah, I think these last few weeks, three weeks basically I've just been focused big time on marketing, learning, you know, improving my skills my knowledge, putting it to practice starting to rebuild my fan base, helping my clients build theirs and it's been working it's been good, but I think I need to move into creative mode now and get some music and stuff done. So today, as part of my drive this year I'm intending to start gigging again. I do again yesterday I was talking about psychological barriers, and I'll summarise it. That basically, if you want to, to turn something into a habit or get something done. Often the starting point is the hardest bear so you need to try and do whatever you can to kind of con yourself into at least just starting, and they alongside that a similar idea is that basically don't worry about completing everything just get started. So today I pulled out this pedal which I bought, probably about five years ago and basically never used, which is, you can plug a microphone and an acoustic guitar into it, and then it gives you nice effects for the acoustic guitar and for your voice. And it's also got a looper functionality on it. And so, I don't know how to use it properly. I don't know how to use it, really. And I know it's going to take some configuring which is probably what's put me off using it in the past, because I'm bit lazy like that when it comes to pedals and things. So, but nonetheless I dug out the cables that I got the pedal the power supply all that stuff got the microphone set up, etc. So today I had a little bash with it. And though I didn't really try and get into any of the configuring side of things. I thought to myself, you know, just start off just get it all plugged in, get it working. That's the first thing. But I did start playing around with the looping pedal, and I forgot how much fun they are and I'm, I'm not very good with loopers particularly but straightaway, you can just create such cool stuff. And it does make me think, maybe I should get a proper lube station, you know, and really go to town on this stuff, because it gives such a different dimension, when specially when you're playing solo solo acoustic as well. So maybe that's something I'll look at in the future. But for now I recorded a few little ideas, nothing that I can probably redo and they maybe they're good for, you know, starting properly writing songs. You know in Cubase is just sort of basic ideas, but um, but it was cool. It was fun. It was nice to play a bit of music, just for the spontaneity and enjoyment of playing music which is something kind of not really done for a bit. I've written a couple of song ideas and noodled around the guitar. But when I'm noodling it's just like basically blues stuff yeah blues esque stuff and I fall in the same routine. But what's really cool about the looper pedal is enables me to do a little bit, you know like, you know, with my mouth or whatever, cymbals. And of course that means that whatever I'm doing on the guitar might be a bit different to my normal blue stuff so it pushes me in a different direction straightaway. So it was really cool I guess I really enjoyed that. And, yeah, that's that's pretty much it just, you know, moving forward, kind of think about to turn into a music flex or remember for about six months ago maybe longer probably even longer than that Simona was saying to me that she notices that I go through cycles, and I get, I go t