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Day Two Hundred Forty Eight (Year Two)

Today was a bit of a slow day.  I downloaded a live Counting Crows gig that a friend of SL's had sent me.  The show was from March 10th of this year.  It's a pretty good show.  The band sounds energized and excited to be there.  Adam is in good form throughout, talking to the crowd quite a bit.  I know that Underwater Sunshine is a covers record, but I really hope that putting it out gets Adam back to writing again.  It feels like time for an album of new music from the Crows.

Stopped at Half Price Books today.  Picked up what turned out to be the last record by Catherine Wheel.  Didn't realize that when I snagged it.  Just knew the name and took a chance.  Picked up a couple of records by Over The Rhine as well.  SL probably has them already (she loves that band), but I was missing her today and wanted to hear some stuff she has recommended to me.

After that, I came home and imported everything from my Exclusive purchase into itunes.  That took a little while, but it felt good to get it all done.

Did a bit of reading today, too.  Gary Marcus' Guitar Zero.  It's something that had gotten pushed off to the side the last month or so.  Felt good to go back to it.  I'm only about 40 pages from the end of it, now, so hopefully I'll be able to polish that off by the end of the month.

Tomorrow will be a good day to get back to actual playing.  With vacation and then today trying to be a day of recovery from said vacation, there wasn't much time to pick up a guitar today.  It makes sense, though, that the first day back at work will be the first day that the music flows from my fingers again.

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