"Cousin Nod, good to hear back from you again also. I hope Dad continues to improve and get better. I don't know what you were up to with a visit to Hong Kong; but I would guess you have an invention you are trying to get to the public. I hope it works out for you. Remember your cousin OD when you are flying around the world in a private jet. We won't have to be great songwriters, we will just fly great writers to join us on your privately owned island. We'll hire The MAB to bring in a group of writers from Nashville and we'll all party and write songs for a few days. The Old Dog is on it cousin, I'm in contact with The MAB, now go out there and sell your latest invention to make it all possible."
Hi Cousin OD. Great to hear from you. I was in Hong Kong to lecture 5 nights about innovation at one of the universities. Fantastic people. Hope they get what they want as it's sounding a bit dangerous over there at the moment. I'd love to head over to see everyone (I know, if you know any universities that want someone to lecture about innovation, I'm happy to oblige!!! 
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So I wasn't doing anything on new ideas that I'm involved in myself but there are a few things ticking over. In a better place time-wise so that I can start to look at songwriting, etc. And thanks for asking about my Dad. He should be home from hospital next week. He has real memory problems but is well looked after at home.
I'll be getting the guitar out this weekend to work on some things I'm way behind on. So I'll be keeping an eye on here.
Cheers
Nod
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