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Day One Hundred Seventy Nine (Year Four)

So, I told myself heading into today that I needed to get at least three of the things on my list from Friday crossed off.  I even did myself a few favors by hand-picking what three items they would be.

I wanted to charge and update the iPod with some of the newer stuff that hasn't gotten put on there yet.  Mostly, what got added was a couple of records by Old 97's (Too Far To Care, Blame It On Gravity), and then the first two records by Waxahatchee (American Weekend, Cerulean Salt).  That done, I'm charging and syncing the iPod as I type this.  The two most recent discs I picked up (new releases by Springsteen and Sharon Jones) are still on rotation in the car, which will be good, because I'm headed up to WI tomorrow morning to spend a bit of time helping out my Mom with stuff.  That said, I'm hoping to be able to cross another item off my list, and pick up some guitar mags (mostly Guitar World Acoustic) while I'm up there.

One of the other things I got done today was to establish a notebook for the large number of songs I've figured out off of records and the radio over the years.  It seems like each time I sit down to try and hash something out that way, it always ends up in a different notebook.  It's going to be really nice to have all of that in the same place.

The only other thing I had on my list for today was to finish a book I got for Christmas called If You Like... The Beatles.  It wasn't anything terribly lengthy, but it did a great job of starting with their influences, and then progressing forward through their career while tracing those that were either contemporaries influenced by The Beatles, or bands that came after and carried the torch that The Beatles had lit.  A quick read, but a very nice overview.
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