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Day Thirty Five (Year Three)

Fought some more with the turntable today.  Was unsuccessful.  I feel like I'm missing either a cable of some sort, or a 1/4" adapter that I need in order to make everything work properly.  It's always so frustrating hooking up electronics in a new place, because it seems there's always something that goes wrong.  In the end, it's always something stupid, but still.  All I want to be able to do is listen to Bear Creek by Brandi Carlile on vinyl while sitting on my couch in the near dark at the end of the day.  Is that so wrong?

Picked up 3 notebooks and folders tonight, in the hopes that I will have more than one student sometime soon, and will therefore be able to get them set up with a system for learning.  In a related story, SL gave someone she knows my email address and phone number after hearing them wonder out loud if anyone taught guitar in Cherokee.  Hmmm... this might just work yet.

Started wading through this week's new releases tonight, too.  Aside from the new Alanis disc, the big thing I see so far is that the parade of Frank Zappa re-releases is continuing.  I'm ashamed to admit that I've never heard much Zappa.  I think it's safe to say that he would go on my list of artists I need to get to know.  That got talked about at one point last year.  I know for sure that the Grateful Dead was also on my list, and I seem to recall that there was one other big name on there, but I don't recall at the moment who it was.

Might have to call R. tomorrow to see if we could figure out this turntable business over the phone or something.

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