Hello!
2024 has been a strange year for me. The migration policy of Australia changed in such a way that ruined my long-term plans to stay there, so I moved back to the US. The US student loans program changed in such a way that I couldn’t have continued law school in Australia or any kind of further education anywhere, so I’m back to looking to various arts as being how I make a living (and that’s fine with me, really). My wife suffered an injury. We’ve been kind of stuck at her parents’ place while she recovers.
While there are silver linings to everything (I can’t begin to articulate how strange the last twelve months have been), there haven’t really been any with respect to pedals. I haven’t had a space to build things since I left Australia, and am unlikely to for the rest of the year. I’ve been designing what I can on the computer, but there’s not a place for me to setup shop to build anything or test any ideas. Things can always change, but I am not expecting to be able to actual build another pedal until December.
But there is at least some good news — after half a year without a guitar (the longest stretch I’ve gone without a guitar since I started playing, more than half of my lifetime ago), I’ve managed to carve out a space to be able to play guitar again. And I’m very excited about that.
Anyway, I just wanted to spell out what has been happening this year, at least to some extent.
Thanks everyone for all your support over the years, and I appreciate your patience. Someday, I’ll be firing up the soldering iron again and at this rate will have like 8 new pedals to release when that time comes.