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Day One Hundred Seventeen (Year Five)

Today was an odd combination of interesting things.  I:

1) Found out that I get to start teaching again tomorrow afternoon.  We had a dinner get together tonight with a lot of people, and one of them happened to be the father who has been trying to find time to schedule guitar lessons for his son since last fall.  When we had talked on Halloween, they had said that they wanted to start sometime soon, and it hadn't really gone much farther than that.  Until tonight.  It's an awesome development, but it also means that some time tomorrow morning will be spent getting the studio to a point where it's less about me studying and making a mess in there and more about having the room whipped into shape enough for me to teach.

2) Finally connected with someone I've been meaning to talk with for more than a year.  There's another musician with a studio living in the village, and for whatever reason, our paths had never really crossed until tonight at this dinner.  Each one of us has heard for twelve months now that we need to hang out with the other, though, so that's cool.  Hopefully we'll be able to get together at some point and jam.

Being off tomorrow, I need/would like to:

1) Get ready for my lesson at three.
2) Clean up the studio.
3) Do some listening (Wilco, Damien Rice)
4) Update and sync the iPod.
5) Plug into the amp and just play for a while.
6) Clapton
7) GW columns/Vai Workout
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