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Day Seventy Six (Year Five)

As I had hoped, tonight gave me the chance to really get down to business where the new and hopefully improved practice notebook/binder idea is concerned. 

Having spent a bit of time between calls today starting to sort out where it needs to begin, I was better equipped tonight to start diving in and getting a few things put in there.  I started with a few basics (a good fretboard diagram, the major and minor pentatonic patterns, etc.) before taking a look through some of the notebooks I've been collecting the bits and pieces of my plan in.  Needless to say, I have a lot of good material to work with, and I'm hoping that, with a bigger chunk of time available in the next few days, that I'll have something that starts to look like what I've been hoping for all along.

I started listening to the new Sister Hazel record today on the way to work.  They're one of those bands that I forget how much I love until I sit down and listen again.  They really felt like a breath of fresh air today.

I may not have gotten a lot of work in today, but I was pleased with what I did get done.  It gives me not only a mid-week touchstone, but also a starting point for the push between now and the end of the weekend.
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