I don't know where I'm goin'

[cyrano]

So my copy of 'Diesel and Dust' says that Happy Trails (the local used music store in Corvallis) put it on the shelf in the spring of '96. In fact, it would have been ten years ago in about two weeks. So this has set me off again, trying to remember how long I've been in this state. I think I'm coming up on my tenth anniversary this winter. That's a long time. I'm pretty sure that it was a good move, or at least better than staying. This doesn't stop me from wishing that, as I approach forty much more quickly than I'd like, I had some kind of career or some evidence that my life is building on a foundation rather than jumping from ice floe to ice floe in hopes of prolonging the time before I plunge over the frozen falls.