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Day Twelve (Year Four)

And so it was, that today happened to be my birthday.  That being the case, I did a small bit of what we all do on our birthdays.  I paused, and I took stock of where things sat.  Here's what I discovered:

My third song is, with two full days still to go, where my first and second songs were at the end of their respective runs.  In need of a single guitar part to complete the music.  Knowing that, and also knowing that I've got tomorrow afternoon and all day Wednesday off from work, I did something unheard of in the last three weeks: I took tonight off from recording.

I did that with the following in mind:

1) I'm getting back on the horse tomorrow, and I'm finishing off the electric part for song #3.

2) I'm killing it on Wednesday.  I'm going to try and get the guitar parts for the other two songs finished off, and I'm going to do a lot of work on "That'll Be The Day."

In other news, we're headed into Sioux City tomorrow, and I'm picking up new Hugh Laurie, new Civil Wars, and new KT Tunstall.  I called them tonight and put them on hold.  I'm sure there will also be a search for guitar mags.

In other cool news, the books I ordered from Amazon came today!  And they look to be awesome.  Now I've got three of the five. 

    

Only the Jazz & Country ones remain...

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