Jay Mankind is a dilettante. He likes music. Quite a bit actually. He gets frustrated by his desire for it. He then realizes that the desire for that which he loves is causing him to suffer. He then expounds upon eastern philosophy/religion replete with tangents and spoken parentheses. He understands the solution yet ignores it in favor of blissful desire/suffering; simply robbing the suffering of its negative potential.

He would like to write a lot more than he does but that can be said for everything in his life. (See paragraph one.) When writing mypace profiles, he tends to begin sentences with the word "he." He sometimes breaks it up with a "when writing myspace profiles."

Once he wrote in his blog daily for a month. He proceeded to leave notice of said writing spurt, though pitifully outdated, from August 13th to December 15th. He hopes that the preceding sentence will not remain here untouched for that long.

As of several months ago, his undying love for music performance earned its title, when it awoke from it's long nap in the front seat and took the wheel. Since that time he has acquired a (new) mandolin, a clarinet, an upright bass and an electric piano and has enjoyed many an hour learning them. Additionally, he is chumming around in a budding bluegrass project called Clipper Ships. Clipper Ships are four singer/songwriters who convene semi-regularly to practice semi-seriously while getting semi-drunk and chewing semi-beef jerkey. Their laughs are fully-loud and they enjoy each other's company.

2007 will be a great year.