We're still making a concerted effort to Not Talk about some of the World Stuff that's going on.

There's plenty of other coverage and heavens knows we have a firm opinion or two inside the band.

At the same time, we can be more helpful as a refuge from the deluge.

So here's a thought on the usefulness of mistakes.

Here's my updated Project list as at this morning, covering what we've been up to and what we're trying.

So that's roughly 61 Discrete items, let's look at how that's gone:

• 13 items in Concept stage.
• 10 in Development
• 14 Done
• 5 in progress
• 14 Nope
• 6 Retry.

If you do some basic math, stuff that didn't work is roughly 25% of what we try. Stuff we'd like to do is almost 50%  of what's going on and less than 10% is what we're actually doing.

To get something done, we need to:

• Think of it
• Research it
• Plan it
• Organise it
• Schedule it
• Fund it
• Do it.

The initialism is TRPOSFD :-)

Of course, reality being what it is there's also:

• Redoing it
• fixing it
• finishing it.

I often write here, in brief, about our regular Faceplants.

Failure is instructive. Also: amusing.

As someone who transposes verses, forgets the occasional word and is guilty of countless other transgressions again timing and tone, I can only offer an acknowledgement and a grin.

Error is part of the statistics, it's part of the process.

As the same someone who also attempts to schedule Large Number of Musicians, Luck is a factor. Oh boy oh boy is it a factor.

Leads me to the viewpoint that anything we get done, is, another minor miracle :-) Hallelujah!

Seen over the distance of a decade at this, we can count a whole lot of things that Didn't Work. Samples equal a wave form right?

Over the course of time, you follow the signal. You get a little noise along the way.

The thing that comes to me this week, is that we've made lots of mistakes. Lots of terrific mistakes.

Maybe Bob Ross is rubbing off on me.

We're hoping to make some more good mistakes this year.