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Day Two Hundred Eight (Year Two)

Today didn't go quite as expected when it comes to scheduling.  Work shifted things around on me, and switched my shift.  I still opened, but the difference threw me off just enough.  What's the positive out of all of this?  I wound up noticing a book today that has been out since last fall and had gone un-noticed by me until today.  The book's called Drinking With Strangers, and it's by  Butch Walker.  Walker is one of those guys that has had a career in the music industry that leaves him respected and heavily involved without being known as a rock god.  He's been part of a band with an MTV hit (Marvelous 3's "Freak Of The Week"), a songwriter/producer for big time artists (Weezer, Avril Lavigne, Dashboard Confessional), and released 5 or 6 great solo albums.  There's also a wickedly cool cover of Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me."

Granted, that means that I did more reading today than anything else, which isn't good for the whole album-in-a-month thing, but I did print off some chord sheets so that sometime tonight I can take what has been idly jotted down in a notebook and transfer it to something a bit more informative and a bit more permanent.

I love the fact that I still think, even with 13 days left, that I'm going to get this done.  I really need to spend tomorrow after work locked away working on this thing, seeing what it is I've got here.  I'll hide in the back bedroom if I have to, just to keep out all of the other distractions.

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