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Day Fifty Three (Year Two)

Did more listening today, in part thanks to a regular customer who loaned me an album to check out.  Mission Bell by Amos Lee.  I'm glad she did, because I've been hearing good things about him for at least 5 years now.  I've gotten a decent chunk of the way into the album.  It's good.  Acoustic-based folk soul.  I'm curious, now, about his earlier records.  Just another artists to add to the list of folks to check out.

Had fun this morning checking out the list of records that came out yesterday.  I'm not used to having Mnodays & Tuesdays off anymore, so not being around the new stuff was odd this week.  Wrote down a few things I was curious about.  Don't have the list in front of me right now, though.  I'll make sure to drop it into tomorrow's posting.  Hopefully after I've had a chance to check some of it out.

Missed a Skype message from B. tonight.  Bummed about that.  Some band stuff would've been fun tonight.  Fell asleep on the couch after work.  I really need to do a better job of sleeping regular hours.  I have this feeling that it would make me more productive, music-wise after I get done with work.

A little bit more of the guitar workout today.  Still going through the scales and finger exercises at the very beginning of the program.  That seems like what I need the most right now, but nonetheless, I can't wait to see what else the program has to offer.  Didn't get as much done today as I had hoped, but I made some progress at least.  My brother has hit the 4 hour mark... if that doesn't drive me to keep working, I don't know what will.

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