Hi Michael, I mentioned this on the Finale List last month, but I want to say again congratulations for getting Recordare merged into the new MakeMusic.
I also want to plant an idea in your head, if I may. I don't know what sort of opportunities might come up in the course of things, but if you're ever looking for people to join some project related to digital sheet music, I hope you'll keep me in mind. Not just engraving, but potentially anything interesting. We've worked together enough that you know what I'm good at. Although I don't have any direct experience with programming, I'm comfortable enough thinking in terms of data structures and algorithms and so forth, and I'm smart enough that I can learn things quickly. That along with my music and typography background might be a good fit. I'm really thinking long-term more than short-term. I'm not actively looking for work now, and I'm locked into the upcoming tax season in any case. But this will be my eighth year doing tax work full-time, so even though I'm still pretty happy in my job and I like my employer a lot, I'm overdue for a change of scenery. So I've been keeping an eye open for any opportunity that might make me jump. Moving back to the Bay Area isn't out of the question. I'm in an odd situation where my girlfriend prefers the Bay Area and would much rather be there (she especially dislikes the long winters and short daylight here), but she would have to coordinate a move with all her entanglements plus her ex-husband's too, since they both want to stay near to their daughter, and that makes it complicated. The ideal time would be when said daughter finishes elementary school and there's a vague intention to try a move then, but that's still two and a half years away. If I'm still with her then, I expect I would follow. If she is subtracted from the equation, then I like Washington better (because I actually do prefer the drizzly gray weather over endless sunny and cloudless skies!), but the Bay Area has its advantages too, so I'd be open-minded. yours etc mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
