Well, artwork, I'm back to making "Look I can animate" type stuff for my portfolio. After seeing more of the competition, I found that I still have a ways to go for my pro portfolio to compete to get my next job. Meantime, I'm living off on unemployment and my retirement savings. This has been the longest I've ever been unemployed. I'm thankful that I've got till the summer or fall for something to happen, but still it can get depressing. Since I live in driving distance to LA, I'm also looking into jobs that involves playing drums. So far the best I can find are of low wadges, but with my 3d animation carrier on hiatus with the bad economy, I can find myself working low wadge in a job I hate doing if I don't get anything going. Meantime, I'm playing in a local band to see what will happen with that. The problem with starting out with a local original band is that it takes a long time for it to get to carrier level, which I may not have the time with unemployment benefits lasting till the fall. Well, that's all about where I'm at in life at the moment.