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Day Twenty Five (Year Two)

Finished off the first half of that missing bridge today, and have vague notions of the second half.  It'd be cool to finish that off tomorrow, send some lyrics to B.  Day off tomorrow.  I'm excited.  It's got to be better than Tuesday.

Had a great conversation with a customer tonight.  We bonded over Brandi Carlile, Alkaline Trio, and Me First & The Gimmie Gimmies.  She clued me in to this really cool music website for new & emerging artists called NoiseTrade.  It was a great conversation, and I'll probably never see her again in my life.

Played some acoustic tonight when I got home.  More of the JTE stuff.

All these websites with all this music just makes me want to write a ton of songs, release a bunch of EPs on my own.  If I try not to out-do myself by going for weird chords, I bet I could do it. 

Not that I don't have a hard rock record to be working on.  Can't believe that a week ago tonight was my last night in WI.  Not much got done band-wise in my first week home.  Not that this was unexpected, mind you, just disappointing.  I'll do better, much better, starting with tomorrow.

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