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Day Three Hundred (Year Two)

I got to check out a bit more of the Silversun Pickups record on the way to and from work today.  I'm liking it.  It's got a more open, ethereal sound to it than the other two full lengths, and to me anyway, it sounds less like the Smashing Pumpkins than their earlier albums.

The other thing that happened tonight was that I started going through everything that has come before, just to see how I'm really doing in terms of my goals.  I only got through the first week of the blog, but I started a notebook, and have also started breaking things down between that which is related specifically to Songs, and those things related to Practicing & Technique.

It feels good to be starting it.  The other thing I know for a fact is that, eventually, this will combine itself with the practice binder I had started to work on a while back and with the teaching aspects that I hope will be coming up this summer.  And speaking of teaching, one of the things I discovered when I was up in Cherokee this week was the name of a guy who teaches a lot of the guitar lessons in the area.  It dawns on me that, when I get up there and get settled, it would be a good idea to take a few lessons, both for my own sense of well being and as a way to get myself involved in the community on some level.

Oh, I finally got around to taking the electric back out of the case after getting home.  I love the feeling of taking it out of the case after a road trip.  It's such a calming and energizing feeling to me.

That's all for today.  I'll keep going through the older posts as I get a chance the next few days.  Even with just a few days under my belt, I can already tell it's going to be a great process.

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