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Day Three Hundred Twenty Two (Year Two)

I finally got around to listening to the track that B. sent me the other day.  It dawned on me as I was listening just how much I missed her voice.  That song is going to work.  It needs drums and bass and electric, but just the acoustic track sent chills down my spine, which is good.  I ran it through the BPM analyzer that I've got on my computer, and it came out at 94.86 beats per minute.  When I see B. a week from today, we shall probably bump that up to 95, set a click track, and see what happens from there.

Made it through another quarter of the Beach Boys record today while I was out running a few errands.  That record was a solid purchase.  It'll never be as good as their early stuff, but then again, I wasn't expecting it to be.

The other fun thing I did today?  I went through all of the CDs that have ended up in overflow piles outside of the current system of CD racks that I have.  I was curious about the number.  Yeah, the overflow alone was about 300 CDs.  Shortly after that, I added an item to the wedding registry that SL and I have set up at Target.  It was a media storage unit that holds up to 1,500 CDs.  It'll probably take up an entire wall of the house we end up living in.  Something tells me we'll need it, though.

I also stumbled across a pair of folders that contained stuff related to my future guitar teaching plans.  One of them was from last summer.  The other was probably from the last time I taught guitar.  God only knows how long ago that's been now... ten years, maybe?

I go in late the next three days, so that ought to give me time enough in the mornings to cross off some of the things I had hoped to get to today that didn't happen.  Today was really good.  Hopefully tomorrow is more of the same.

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