Day Three Hundred Twenty Two (Year Three)

Today was an interesting combination of things I found musically, and things I didn't.

The Found:

1) A capo for my student who has a lesson tomorrow
2) A live record by Jason Isbell
3) A record by Ted Leo
4) The soundtrack/DVD combo for the long-awaited John Mellencamp/Stephen King musical

The Not Found:

1) Southeastern, the new studio record by Jason Isbell, that came out today.
2) Fretboard Roadmaps for Guitar (they had one for bass and one for mandolin)
3) Any sort of guitar magazine. Seems like it has been long enough for new issues, but I guess not.

Just a weird hodgepodge of a day. Got farther in the Springsteen bio, though. Almost on page 200.

Hopefully tomorrow has a bit more structure to it.

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