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Day One Hundred Forty (Year Five)

Well, I got 2 out of the 3 things that were in my list for today. Okay, so technically it might be closer to 1.75 out of 3, but still.

I got the lion's share of the iTunes work done tonight.  Not everything that had been on my list, but enough to justify syncing the iPod.  If nothing else, I made a substantial dent in getting the newer music caught up.  It's funny, the one thing I still feel bad that I'm missing at the moment is Girls Can Tell by Spoon.  I know I own it, I know I've seen it recently.  I found the case the other day, and was so excited to have uncovered it that I didn't bother to look inside and make sure the disc was there.  It wasn't.

I made it to the record store and started my Christmas shopping for my brother.

I also spent what felt like a lot of time in the studio tonight, but somehow didn't manage to get around to the Vai workouts and the GW columns.

Either way, I got through some of the tedious things today, and have myself set up pretty well heading into the weekend.  Tomorrow should be a quick and easy focus on a few selected things, and then Saturday morning we head to Madison for the first Counting Crows show that night.

Today was a good day, indeed.
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