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Day Three Hundred Seventeen

So, apparently B. accepted my Dropbox request tonight. It's always cool to get band stuff accomplished without knowing it, and that's the way it happened today. I do wonder if she got out and found her mic, but I guess I can send a text tomorrow and find out.

Also of note, J. kept messing around with ProTools and that song, and when I talked to him for a minute or two tonight, he said he was almost done with it. Can't wait to hear it, but I'm guessing it'll be a bit longer before I get to, considering his exact words were that he'd "catch up to me in a day or two."

As for me, I got home from a walk tonight, and hunted down the legal pad with the list of songs/ideas on it. I wanted to lay out each idea individually, see what we had, and where it could/needed to go to be finished up. It all started with me wanting to go through the Double Drop D progression all the way, just to confirm what J. and I were talking about the other night. I'm pretty sure I've got it down, but I'll want to confer with him the next time we talk. I'll also have to go about remembering exactly what it was I played on that song all those years ago. I really do suspect that J. is right about it being different songs though.

Oh, and I started the Keith Richards book too.

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