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Day Three Hundred Thirty Nine (Year Six)

So, my statement at the end of last night was that the studio needed to be "up and running" by the time I went to bed tonight.  Technically, I got there.

All of the magazines are shelved, all of the boxes are emptied and cleared out (with one exception, which I'll get to in a second), and while the instruments are still in their cases at the moment, that will change in the morning.  In short, if I wanted to record right now, I could.

And yet, the studio isn't completely finished yet.  The stereo and turntable aren't hooked up yet.  The speakers for the stereo are the sole box that's left in the studio.  Aside from that, the iMac that I got from my stepdad, that I keep meaning to play around with to see if it can help me in recording (it's almost 10 years old) is the only other thing that needs to be sorted out.  Both of those things should be fairly easy for me to knock out on a good night's sleep, so assuming all goes smoothly, tomorrow before noon everything should be ready to go.

Am I disappointed that I wasn't able to finish off everything tonight?  Only slightly.  In reality, I'm a whole lot happier with all that I was able to get done in the last two days, especially when I stop to consider that we had family in town.

Tomorrow feels like a victory lap, if only a small one.  Because once everything is squared away down there (and the boxes are broken down), then the real fun begins.

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