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Day Three Hundred Fourteen (Year Two)

A few things to report today.

First, T. from work loaned me a couple of albums he had picked up last week for listening purposes.  They are as follows:

1) Hello - Karmin
2) This Is The End Of Control - Cherri Bomb

I'll pop them into the itunes before I go off to work tomorrow at 2.  (Side note: tomorrow is the last day of my six day run!).

I had a great discussion with SL tonight regarding my future teaching prospects.  It seems like the only guy who teaches guitar up in Cherokee is full up right now, and therefore, the sooner I get up there, the sooner I can capitalize on the fact that he simply isn't taking on any more students right now.  On that note, I really need to find some resources on teaching guitar to kids.  Maybe a few books or some internet research.  I know there's stuff out there... heck, I found some of it when I was going to teach last summer, only to have that fall apart after one lesson.  I've basically gotten guarantees from SL that the people up in Cherokee will be way more reliable.  Still, it would be good to get started on planning a bit of that out.

I got through September 2011 on the blog review tonight.  Another month crossed off the list.  It seems that early September of last year was the time in which I first started to realize that I needed to do a better job of dividing my time between working on the band stuff and working on my playing.  There was a really coherent set of posts in the beginning of the month where I laid out a few of my thoughts/fears about that.  I need to go back and read through them again.  See what can make it into the practice notebook from those days.  I know that, at the very least, there are some solid words of wisdom that will need to be transcribed.

Also, I re-discovered a note I had written to myself the other day to check out a Chicago-based band called Archie Powell & The Exports.  Looked them up on Youtube tonight, and oh man are they awesome!  I will definitely be looking into picking some of their stuff up.

Hoping to make it through a bit of "Red House" before I pass out tonight, too.  If nothing else, I'll have a look at it before I go in to work tomorrow.

Good day today.  Hopefully it continues tomorrow.

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