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Day Three Hundred Forty (Year Two)

Today was an interesting day music-wise.  I slept in a bit later than I had hoped to this morning, but I still found time before work to make it all the way through the end of 2011 in my blog review.  As with yesterday, I found a few more things that got included in the notebook I'm keeping for this part of things.  One of the big things that I noticed was that I had a lot of success in December with putting things together.  Granted, that was the month I was intensely focused on it, but still.  If I'm doing this the right way, there should always be new stuff I'm discovering that needs to be added to the practice binder.

Other cool stuff that happened included the following:

1) Had a great conversation with a customer about old rock & roll.  He's working in getting back to some of the classic stuff (Chuck Berry, Creedence Clearwater Revival, etc.)  He's looking for guitar tabs of songs I have, so I told him I'd email him with what I find.  In particular, he was after "Susie-Q," but the CCR version, because he said that "nobody has really heard of Dale Hawkins," who recorded it first.  Digging out that tab book tonight reminds me of just how good CCR was.

2) Worked with one of the new guys at work tonight.  He transferred in from Waterloo, and I just hadn't had a chance to really chat with him at all.  He's currently obsessed with The Decemberists and Motion City Soundtrack.  I've never really listened to MCS at all, but he hyped them a lot, so I listened to a bit of their stuff.  The record I really enjoyed (at least from the previews) was My Dinosaur Life.  I know we have it at work for like, $10, so perhaps it will end up as road music for my trip north to see SL next week.  I'll find a way to check it out before I make up my mind.

All told, it was a pretty good day.  I go in late tomorrow, so I'm hoping to have a chance to rock tomorrow morning.

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