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Day Five (Year Three)

I'm feeling good tonight.  Just, relaxed and confident about the year ahead.  Maybe it's because, after five days of trying to find time and failing, I finally found time to sit with a guitar tonight and just play.  I can't even begin to describe how much I needed that sense of relaxation.

Also, I think I've decided what August's focus is going to be.  If I'm going to be teaching, I need to freshen up on the one thing that everyone always seems to put off, but always needs to know just a little bit more about: theory.

I've got a Hal Leonard book on theory as it relates to guitar, and some Berklee Press stuff, and probably a host of other resources.  It's time to dig them out and give myself that refresher that has probably been three years in the making.  I know I'm not going to learn it all in a month, mind you, but I need to do it before I start teaching again.  Besides, as long as I try to fit most of it into the context of learning songs, I won't bore myself (or my future students) with it.

Let's see, what else.  I got a music recommendation from a co-worker today.  Lotus Plaza is the name of the band.  Apparently it's the side project for the guitar player from Deerhunter.  We had their last record as an in-store play last year sometime, and if I remember right, I ended up with the CD when it got taken off the list of stuff we kept.  I'll have to dig that out again, refresh my memory on what it sounds like.

Heard from J. today.  First time since the end of February.  Just a general message.  I invited him to the wedding in October, though.  He said he'd like to come.  It'd be good to see him.  It's been a long time.  One way or another, we'll get our record made.

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