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Day One Hundred Ninety Two (Year Five)

So, I used today as a day to circle the wagons and assess where I am.

If I look at this as finishing an EP, which is the mindset going into it, then I think I'm in fairly decent shape.  I've got music that I really like for three songs, with (possibly) a fourth and fifth in the mix. 

There is also part of me that sees those last two ideas as a jumping off point for a power pop project, and sees the three that I'm definitely sold on as a cool little acoustic project.  That may be getting a bit ahead of myself, however, so I'm going to try and reign myself in and focus, at least at first, on getting everything right about the three that I know, without a doubt, belong on this first EP.

The biggest thing I need to focus on in the coming days is bits of lyric that occur to me as I work to get the recordings of the music exactly the way that I want them.  Those moments when a phrase or a line dashes across my mind may well be the difference between having a finished product at the end of the month, and having something that still has a lot of loose ends to tie up.
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