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Day One Hundred Fifty One (Year Two)

Played a bit of electric tonight after work as a way to wind down from an otherwise hectic day.  I'm trying to sort out in my head what the process is for getting everything done that needs to get done with the band.  I'm really feeling right now like the obvious first step is to sit down with everything we have (demos, progressions, bits of lyric, etc) and just see what jumps out at me.  Find the spots where, were it entirely up to me, certain songs would be included and certain songs would be pushed to the side.  I'd even go so far as to break it down verse by verse from a lyrical standpoint.  It just makes sense to me to take stock of what's there, especially considering how little work has gotten done since August.

As for the rest of my playing, I need to just dive headlong into some of the main resources for the binder.  I've got 9 days before the end of the month, and I'm really needing to start taking that project seriously again.  It's fallen slightly by the wayside in the last week or so, which is a shame considering how good I was feeling about it in the first half of the month.  Shouldn't be too difficult to pick back up, though, I just need to put in a bit of time.

That's what all of this really comes down to, isn't it?  Putting in the time.  Being willing to make certain sacrifices for the benefit of something that means the world to who I am as a person.  In 2012, I need to find a way to make the time I put in equal (or even more equal) to the meaning that the music has in my life.

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