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Day Eighty Four (Year Two)

Got the Evanescence imported tonight after work.  Haven't gotten around to listening to the Ben Folds yet.  Going to need a bigger chunk of time for that than I've had.  I'm off Monday, so that will likely be the time that happens.

Apparently, when I picked up the new Guitar World issue the other day, I was right at the end of the run for the last issue, because a new one came out today.  Picked that up as well.  I've got to cut back on my music spending for a bit, listen to what I've already got, but the magazines will continue to be the addiction I feed regularly.

And now, for possibly the dorkiest thing I've ever admitted here: I created a playlist in itunes with all of the songs that have yet to recieve a single spin.  Set it up so that, as one of them plays, it removes itself from the list.  Currently, there are 10,263 songs in the list.

Apparently B. was looking at some of the newer songs tonight.  She suspects we'll need to add a few lines here and there to make things flow.  I'll take that challenge.  She now knows that I've gotten the intro right, and when I told her that having that down only makes me want to drop in an electric part all the way through, she laughed at me.

It feels like we made some real progress this week.  It may have been a small leap forward, but it's there.  Got to find a way to make sure it continues.

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