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Day Two Hundred Eleven (Year Two)

Another semi-quiet day.  Crazy busy at work, but in between all the madness, I managed to find a couple of NOOK Apps with musical significance.  One of them is called "Capo Bull," and helps with transposing chords between keys/with a capo.  I downloaded it, but haven't used it yet.  Apparently it also lets you email yourself the chords you transpose and subsequently print them off.  This could well be a cool purchase.  The other one, which I haven't purchased yet, was just called "Guitar Study HD."  I'm not sure what all it does, but I'll definitely investigate it further.

I'm getting to the point where a bit of worry is starting to creep in over the album-in-a-month.  My next two days off (tomorrow and Saturday) will be filled with amazing fun that won't leave a whole lot of time for random acts of music.  If this is to get done, it's going to be all about making the best of every single spare moment that I have between now and the end of the month.  Something I wasn't all that good at tonight.  The only way to learn from your missteps is to make them, right?

I will do better tomorrow morning before all of my fun begins, and I will make the most of the chances that lay ahead.  Short one tonight, but it was a long, busy day.

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