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Day Two Hundred Forty

I hit up Best Buy today, to see about the whole external hard drive/info backup situation. Got myself a pretty good deal too, which I wasn't expecting at all. Granted, it'll only be a truly sweet deal if they can get all of my music back, but they sounded optimistic, and so I'll take my cue from them. Checked out the first 6 tracks or so of the new R.E.M. record on my way there and back. It's amazing. I'd say it's the best thing they've done in 16 years, but I haven't heard "Accelerate," their last record, so.

Also, I plugged in the electric after I got back, and had a brief run at one of the ideas for the hard rock band. One of the old ideas. The one we have that's in double dropped D tuning that B. has never been able to write lyrics for, and oh yeah, even after 4 years, it still sounds sufficiently dark and ominous and cool. Can't wait to keep digging at that one either later on tonight or tomorrow. Then again, if I have to go pick up my thousands and thousands of songs tomorrow, I could very well be distracted by that. And maybe laundry, but anyway. It was a good day for music, although I admittedly hoped that I'd have all my music back already, but I'm well aware that was wishful thinking. That's what tomorrow's for, after all.

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