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Day One Hundred Forty Nine (Year Two)

I haven't been late with a post in a very long time, but it happened today.  And I don't even have an amazingly spectacular story as to why it happened.  I fell asleep on the couch.  Go me.

I had a few interesting things happen musically today.  All of the quirky variety.

1) Had lunch with K., who was in town from Waterloo for a day.  Went to Olive Garden.  Felt like old times.  All she had asked for from me this Christmas was volume two of the "Songs To Frighten Customers" mix that I had made a few years back.  I thought it was going to be tough to find more songs.  It wasn't.  So I got her that, and she got me a book of staff paper from B&N, where she titled all the pages with Gibbs rules from NCIS.  This makes me happy.  Partly because it's Gibbs, but mostly because some of them will make really cool song titles.  Maybe that will be a bit of inspiration when I start writing again.

2) In celebration of the old times, we went to Half Price Books.  I found a Kaki King record (she played the guitar parts in August Rush, and I've been curious about her ever since), a cheesy music movie that my manager had recommended (BandSlam) that was actually kind of fun, and a "50 Rock Guitar Licks" type DVD that skipped when I got it home, but it looks cool enough that I'll be exchanging it tomorrow for another copy tomorrow.  They had a few of them, so it ought to be pretty easy.  Also, the DVD came with a TON of extra learning resources.

Either way, everything combined to inspire me to pick up the guitar when I got home.  I'm noticing that the tenseness in my fretting hand dissipates when I stop and think to myself that I need to feel each note that I pick out.  It's like some part of me is still stressing that I haven't played enough to bring my chops back to where they were a few years ago.  I need to stop worrying about that and just play enough to bring them back.  It's happening, I know it is, I just want it to happen faster.  Got to put in more time if I want to see more results, though, right?

Got another day off tomorrow, so I'll try to fit in a lot more playing in between the other stuff I've got to do.

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