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Day Two Hundred Thirty Eight (Year Four)

I've been talking about getting the resource closet properly organized essentially since we moved in.  Tonight, I finally got around to starting that process.

I hadn't spent a whole lot of time in the studio since I got back from WI.  Admittedly, the last couple of days have been occupied with listening to (and slowly starting to make some sense of) the demos, and trying to get that process up and running again.

Meanwhile, the closet has been filled with random piles of books and magazines for as long as I can remember.  No semblance of organization or reason to much of it, just someplace for things to be until I figure out what to do with them.  I've had enough of that.  I'm lucky, in that, I've got tomorrow off, and will have a chance to really get in there and spend some quality time working on getting things organized. That said, I made a decent start tonight, getting some of the piles sorted out, getting some of the magazines if not off the floor yet, then stacked in their own pile for sorting and better organizing tomorrow.

Along with work on that, I also need to:

1) Do some acoustic stuff tomorrow (Goldmine book, this means you).
2) Start taking notes on the changes that need to be made to the demos.
3) Work on a few more of the 100 Riffs.
4) Read some more of the Big Star biography.   

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