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Latest News June 25, 2007 - I've been working on recording a lot of my songs and instrumental projects lately. I'll have some of these available on my personal and music related web sites and sites such as MySpace and YouTube. For the past year, I've been really busy with the fire truck and financing business, but now that this has become more streamlined and automated, I have more time for my music pursuits and my on-line fish/pets business. I'm really looking forward to doing these music projects. I've got about 600 songs I've written over a period of 30 years and I'm now starting to record instrumentals that I've wanted to do for about 30 years as well. I just got a little side-tracked for about 3 decades by playing on everybody else's records in Nashville. Hopefully, my next post to my latest news here won't be about a year from now, as was my last update.
July 9, 2007 - I did it!!! I relocated to Florida! You can see some of the pictures of the view out my living room window and others at my Griffin Home page I had many things per music, fish and even with the fire department/financing businesses that I had delayed, until I got to Florida. I am busy now getting these done.
June 2007 - I am relocating to Port Orange (Daytona Beach) Florida. I will be moved into my new home there on July 7, 2007. I have already joined the Daytona Blues Society and I will perform regularly at "The Bank" on Main Street in Daytona Beach on Wednesday evenings. I have been given the privilege of once again performing the National Anthem at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA on August 19th, at 3:30. I receive this privilege every year and it is certainly one of the performances I eagerly look forward to doing.
February 2007 - I decided to do this personal update section, so that I can answer so many friends regarding what is happening and let you know if I don't answer you immediately, it certainly is for very good reasons. I feel bad, because I've not been able to do so. Well, I've still not been able to complete my relocation to Florida for many very good reasons, although I am certainly looking forward to doing so, after this past very cold month of freezing cold and snow/ice in Pittsburgh, PA.. The VFD/financing business grew so much and I've had to hire 4 additional staff members, bringing the number of staff to 12. I still need to hire 3 more people. So much for retirement and only doing a few weekend gigs and working 15-20 hours during the week financing fire departments. We are now selling new and used fire trucks all over the world. In addition to our national sales and financing, we are process international orders for over 300 fire trucks from the various manufacturers we represent. As Spring arrives many of the municipal infrastructure projects we're working to help get financed will also move into high gear, along with the fire station construction projects. Check out all of the new web sites and changes at http://VFD-Funding.com I'm getting a lot of interest regarding my proposal for a bill to amend the U.S. tax code to give a $1,000 federal income tax credit to volunteer firefighters, who meet minimum standards of training and alarm responses. Also, I was recently appointed to the Business Advisory Counsel of the U.S. Congress. I'm the Honorary Chairman, due to my tax code initiative and what I have done to help so many fire departments, police departments and municipalities all over the country to finance apparatus, equipment and infrastructure projects. I'm both humbled and flattered by such an appointment and recognition and I look forward to my trips to Washington to visit congress and of course the annual President's dinner. At some point, I need to update my bio-resume', which I've not done for a very long time now...then again, I am "retired". Regarding my music: I still haven't had time to get my National Anthem performances schedule completed, but I'm looking forward to some NASCAR, NBA, NHL, MLB games and my annual appearance at the Little League Baseball World Series in August, which is broadcasted by ABC Sports/ESPN. I'll post my schedule here, once I get the time to get it assembled. Of course I also let you know if I'm performing in your town or area, so we can schedule a time to get together somewhere. I'm waiting until I get to FL, before I finish setting up my own home-based recording studio, to do more instrumentals, where I'll play all of the instruments (harmonica lead) and to demo many of the songs I've written over the past many years. I've got tracks already down on about 25 sides, but I need to get some new/more gear and to be able to set a few days aside to concentrate on completing these and laying down some new rhythm tracks for some others I really wish to do. I am eager to head back to Nashville soon for a visit and of course I'll probably do a few sessions here and there. I'll let everybody know when I have more instrumentals recorded and the CD completed. I'll make all of these available as a download here on this web site and my other personal web site WillGriffin.net. Fish/Pets Web Sites: I've done a lot of work on these and the tropical-fish/aquarium web sites are pretty complete now. Regarding Pet-Shops.biz, the fish has been done, the dog section is complete and so is the cats. I'm working on birds now. Small mammals and reptile supplies should be completed in the next month or so. I'm working on these sections and web sites, during the weekends and as I get the time to do so. We've been selling a lot of aquarium and pet supplies, along with a few rare fish. More fish sales will occur and more fish will be available as the weather warms. Well...that's it a quick and generally as I have the time now to report. If you're waiting on a response from me to an e-mail, I'll get to that probably within the next day or so. These past couple of weeks have been really busy, so please forgive me.
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