17 days before I intended to release this album, my house and all of my music equipment were destroyed in an electrical fire.
Luckily everyone in my house (including my cherished doggo, Nugget) were completely okay and unharmed. Still, we lost almost all of our stuff and the home we've loved for as long as I can remember.

Along with many other challenges I knew were to come, I had to decide what to do with the music sitting in the GarageBand App on my cell phone.

Realistically, I won't have the equipment I need to record more music for several months. First and foremost, we have to find a place to live, clothing, food, and school supplies...A new drum kit is at the bottom of the list. So I didn't want to wait to put out the music I did have already done or almost-done.

I have these 8 tracks that I thought were good enough to release as-is. Some are a little rough around the edges, others were already as finished as they would ever be even if I had unlimited time to record.

I was looking for an album title that would reflect the slightly unfinished nature of this album/EP when from my car speakers rang "Fire Editorial" by the Mountain Goats.

"Save this town, save everything not nailed down."

It was perfect.

So this is what's left: this is everything not nailed down. Everything that wasn't stuck in my house when the flames destroyed it: I lost pages of music, lyrics, and artwork, and I can't get that back. Ever. But these songs somehow managed to escape unharmed.

I lost nearly every physical object I own, but I cannot describe the amount of joy and pride it brings me to still have these little things that I created in my possession.

I only hope they can mean a fraction of what they do to me to you.