david taus

Windfall

music: Phil & Friends- 4/16/99, San Francisco, CA

It seems like aeons ago that I was working a 9-5 job at Children’s Hospital. It was only about 6 months ago in realtime; my last day was the first Friday in May of this year. Quite amazing to think how much has been done in the six months since. But I was reminded of the old job this week in the most pleasant of ways: I received a check for about $400 in the mail from Children’s out of the clear blue. I called the old office, and was told that this was my “holiday bonus.” Since I was on the payroll for a part of this fiscal year, I was entitled to the bonus. And like magic, $400 falls into my lap. Positive.

I think that part of it will go towards an external hard drive. A nice big one. With that purchase, I could back up all the important stuff on my computer, but perhaps more importantly, I’ll have room for archives of the music I’ve been amassing from places like archive.org and I’ll have room to keep a complete copy of DJ 1ey’s oggified music library, almost doubling the volume of my own collection. Whatever is left over might be enough for a somewhat nice ambient microphone, which will be needed to record the Northwoods Jam Sessions of ‘03 and ‘04, and despite my anti-establishment instincts, some holiday presents. I sort of wish that instead of a check, Children’s just forwarded me one of these.. it would make these decisions a lot easier.