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Day Twenty One (Year Four)

Only three weeks into year four of the blog, and I already feel like I've made more progress this year than I did for most of last year.  Granted, the #STARTexp has helped with that, but still.

Today I managed to get the printer fixed, and get one of the two Richard Lloyd PDFs printed out.  Made it halfway through the second one before the ink ran out in my printer.  This is the point where, in the past, I'd say that I'm "just not meant to do this," and fold.  That's NOT happening this time.  I'll go to KMart tomorrow and get some printer cartridges, and then keep going.

In other news... I put together an Amazon wish list last night that has that Fretboard Freedom I mentioned last night, plus the two Goldmine books, and what comes up as a "you might also like this..." suggestion?  A book put out by Guitar World that has both the original 10 hour workout by Steve Vai AND the 30 hour workout from 9 years ago!  So yeah, that went on the list as well.

Also, is it weird that I miss my songs?  Between work and the binder and everything else going on, I haven't had a lot of time to go back and work on, or even listen to, what I did during Round 1 of START.  Next week, with a bit more time on my hands, I need to do that.

Tomorrow's small goals for the binder:

1) Get that second PDF printed.
2) Figure out which of the instructional DVDs I have belong in my learning plan.

I'm sure there will be more, but those two jump to mind immediately.
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