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Day One Hundred Eighty Five (Year Four)

Today was a good day.

Music-wise, I started in on my list for the weekend and got a few things worked on.  I started by going through some of the guitar-related emails that have been piling up in my inbox of late.  I've signed up for a couple of newsletters with practice tips and the like in the last year or so, and while I'm usually pretty good about sorting through them, they had gotten to the point (since about the beginning of the year) where they were just adding up.  I didn't get through all of them, but I made a decent enough dent that I should be able to finish going through them all this week.

I did a bit of listening today, too, in an attempt to (again) get caught up on some things that are piling up.

Playing-wise, it was mostly electric in nature today.  And most of it was for fun, as opposed to being intensely focused on theory or anything else terribly serious that I've been working on of late. 
My plan is to focus in on theory and acoustic stuff and more songwriting over the next two days, because I've got Monday off this week.  Hooray for three day weekends, for they offer more of a chance to get things done.

So, yeah, while today was good, it was a bit quiet for me on the music front.  Tomorrow needs to be a big, loud, productive day.
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