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Day Two Hundred Ninety Three (Year Two)

If you've been following my postings for any length of time, you should know by now that it doesn't take much for me to pick up a CD.  But, if I'm going to pick a day I like buying music that isn't a New Release Tuesday, the day I prefer is always going to be a Friday.  It's payday, so somehow in my head, it seems more justifiable.  That being said, my order of Son Volt's The Search came in today, and I snapped it up when I left for the day.

I imported the Son Volt tonight, and wound up doing some other nitpicky itunes organizational things.  Clearing up some naming and tagging issues that had been sitting out there for a while.  Not a whole lot of fun, but with the new ipod, it seemed like a good idea to me.

I played for a little bit before work today, but didn't venture into "Red House," because by the time I got started playing, I didn't feel like I had enough time to devote to that.  So instead, I just noodled a bit and played around with a couple of chord progressions.  I'm really looking at tomorrow as a great chance to get some focus time in for music.  Then again, I've got three of the next four days off, so I'm hoping to have time for listening and playing and god only knows what else.  I'm really hoping to make the most of this mini-break that just sort of dropped into my lap.  Wish I wasn't working on Sunday, but oh well, I can't really complain about having this much free time for the next few days.

Got through a bit more of the Silversun on the way to and from work tonight, as well.

All in all, a bit of a short day for music stuff, but I know full well that tomorrow will be better.

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