Why another blog?

Why does the world need another blog?  I'm not sure the world needs this blog, but I do.  I was a percussion major and earned a bachelor's and a master's in music.  I love to play and used to practice for 6 to 8 hours a day.  After I graduated with my master's, I spent a few years as a band director at various high schools and middle schools.  I always enjoyed the students, but the pay and upper management of any school district can suck the life out of a teacher.  At 1 am, on an un-air-conditioned school bus riding home from an away football game, I decided this was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.  Luckily, my school district had purchased the band a computer that I really enjoyed working on.  After I little research, I enrolled in a programming 101 course and went on to get a master's in computer science.  Soon I was changing careers to software development.  When I made the change, I was so burned out on music that I went cold turkey. I wanted nothing to do with it.  My focus was on building my programming career.  A couple of years ago, my wife gave me an MP3 player so I could listen to podcasts during my commute.  Next thing I knew I was ripping my old CDs so I could listen to them again.  For the first time in 10 years, I was getting interested in music again.  Programming is a very creative exercise.  Programmers are given what is basically a blueprint and it is up to them to make it a reality.  It is like improvisation except the results are more concrete since they are saved as part of a computer program.  In my current job, I am doing some very important work, but it does not have the creative component programming does.  This blog will hopefully replace some of the creativity I miss.  Over the years, I have written various pieces for solo vibraphone and percussion ensemble and decided to do something with these.  I plan on releasing them with a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution license.  This will make them free to download and use as long as you do not make money on a performance or recording and give me proper attribution.  I'll explain this further in a future post.  The exercise of preparing the music, recording it and sharing it that will bring me happiness.  If others enjoy my music, that will be a huge bonus.