I'm here. I retired from repairing musical instruments at a music store and all I do now is play woodwinds full time, or as full time as it gets nowadays. The music biz is somewhat seasonal here in Florida. I'm pretty busy October - February, but it's slow now. The down time leads to laziness for me. I'm no spring chicken and I'm actually surprised I'm still active.
I have shifted the aim of my saxophone collecting from 1920s collectables to horns I can actually use in performance. I still have a lot of saxes of all kinds, and it's fun to play odd horns on gigs for the public.
I got to play a big concert with the O'Jays a few weeks ago and a few days ago I played a gig at the Hard Rock casino in Hollywood on straight tenor, Conn-O-Sax and baritone.
I have a steady once a month blues gig in Jupiter, FL that actually pays well, and a steady once a month big band gig for dancers in Boynton Beach FL.
Every year I play a huge Christmas pageant gig in Ft. Lauderdale on tenor, baritone and clarinet that takes up the whole month of December. In October I get slammed with gigs in a German band for good bread. January and February are busy with Palm Beach society gigs on alto, tenor or bass(!) saxes. I actually play baritone sax more than anything. I have quite a few custom charts for contrabass sax and big band and I play that horn more than one would expect.
I intend to keep playing until I suck, which should occur in about an hour and a half.