Hey! Greg Vail - AKA SAXBOY here.

Have been buried with life stuff this week.

I know many of us are pretty under the gun on finance these days – not really making it at all! I also know from real life experience that, often the fall out of  things working out bad can be felt after the fact by a good amount of time. Credit Cards you might have used to pull thru a tight month or two; a friend you owe a couple of hundred bucks to; taxes you let slide; repairs on the house or car maintenance can wait but for how long? Then it all piles up in your face and you have a reality check that is bouncing….

Awe the joys of this life……

I have so many friends that are in real trouble now. They made it through for a while but now it is all catching up. Some of my friends went down right when the economy took a hit. Some had savings or decent job sustain until now – but now seems to be a big problem for us all.

This last 2 weeks has been a time of reassessing and change. I have been forced to put everything on the table and let the cards fall as they may. For instance, I spent 2 hours on the phone today with phone companies reviewing plans and cutting some services. I let 1 health club go and saved a total of $76.00 a month cutting 3 bills down.

I have started being very active with an accident settlement I have let slide as I healed up too. I have begun my consistent barrage of nice yet thorough communications with Farmers Insurance and I started seeing results once the adjustor realized something had changed. I really needed to just feel better to be up for the fight and will say I feel better now – let’s get this done!

I did something I have not done in years yesterday. I waxed my SUV with a friend. I was reminded why 100 bucks is not that much for a wax and detail job by sunset! I have felt the pain all day today. My SUV is big and tall and I think I’m getting too old to hang off a back seat reaching for the middle of the roof to wipe off wax! A step stool would have been amazing!!

I am getting my 04 Denali ready to sell. I am not very happy about that and it is possible it will still be my Denali a year from now; but I did make that decision and my truck looks great!! When I get it listed I will post! I still need to finish the steam cleaning inside and get pictures to post it, but it will go online this weekend! I am thinking around $18,000 for the top of the line, fully loaded with every factory toy available. They run over 60k new!!

I will also be re-listing my beloved 1962 Impala next week. 11K is the asking price and lots of pics are here….

Am I doing terrible?? NO! But, like most of my world I am very busy, busier than ever and making almost half of the money I was 3 years ago! …and it is starting to catch up.

I was just blessed with a bunch of new session calls this week. I recorded a track for a Bush Gardens fireworks show yesterday, and have 2 sessions tomorrow. I will be playing some Flute again for Weezer in the morning, and then heading over to Tony Guerrero's house to record Flute and Clarinet parts for his Christmas Musical DVD release. I then have a pop Tenor section session Saturday morning with another old friend for one of her recording clients!! 4 sessions in 1 week is great!! Used to be the norm, but in 2010?? GREAT!! BUT - also used to pay a lot more.... God is good and I am grateful!!

I have a long list of friends I am following and praying for these days. I hope we all see a positive change in our lives so we can work and make an honest wage again soon. Not looking for handouts! Just wish I could work hard AND cover the bills. I am very blessed with my awesome family too!

Blessings to the many that are 'here now'; and prayers for the many that wish they had these problems because they are small in comparison! Keep looking up!!