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Day One Hundred Sixty Six (Year Seven)

We had our pre-semester meeting for work today.  You're probably asking yourself how that ties into the music side of my life, well, it does so like this...

Because I was in Fort Dodge, I took the opportunity to stop by the book store, and while I was there, I picked up a couple of things:

1) New issue of Acoustic Guitar (yes, I know I'm going to be getting the subscription, but I wanted to make sure that I didn't miss an issue in the process.  If I get the same one in the mail, I'll send the extra one to my brother).

2) Homeward Bound, the new Paul Simon biography by Peter Ames Carlin.  I have it as one of my goals that I want to read more music books this year than I did last year, and between that and the Springsteen bio that I never really got a good start on, I've already got a couple lined up.

Truth be told, I got home later than I was expecting, so while I got into the studio for some work this evening, burning the CD of song ideas didn't happen, and neither did my long session with the Martin.  Tonight ended up being more of an electric night, but that's okay.

Oh, and I also had a cool bit of conversation with a co-worker who has a guitar that she has never really learned to play, so I may throw together a folder of stuff for her over the weekend if I get a chance to, we shall see.
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