So I've been performing magic now for 16 years maybe longer. But I also have a career as a software quality senior engineer and architect. That is cut into my magic quite a bit. 

Considering that I wanted to do magic part-time so I could entertain occasionally at friend's houses or something, my desire to do magic is like with everything, I'm going to take it fully and seriously.

Darn it, however this is something I certainly don't regret because I love entertainment.Over the course of all of these years I collected tricks and collected tricks collected illusions and I've gone through everyone perform them and at the end of all I probably have well over 400 tricks maybe closer to 600.

Eugene Berger had once said he only has nine tricks when he goes to parties and that's it.I could see that for his type of entertainment and who entertains but for myself I also entertain children and while do they remember the tricks that you performed and I see them a lot the same kids. So I do pick up more tricks.

When it comes down to it though I have a lot of tricks. And I've heard a lot of magicians say things like oh my gosh I have so many tricks I've wasted so much money I have some I haven't even opened yet.Ensure you're going to have some you haven't opened yet or gotten to yet and actually that's okay.

Because the trip inspired something inside of you even the packaging. And if you take a trick and you don't like it you still learn something about you which is this trick is not for me or I really don't like performing this trick. So it's always been a good thing to have all of this stuff.

But right now for me I have to start isolating down to the tricks that I'm going to use. So I'm getting some big boxes and I'm going to start closing up some of my tricks and my DVDs that I won't use any more and bid them a fond farewell asI continue with my magic adventure