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Day Fifty Seven (Year Three)

So, according to all of the estimates, my copy of Charmer is supposed to be delivered by the 21st.  This is awesome news.  It might be here sooner, because as of 11:30 tonight, it was in South Dakota, so secretly I'm hoping it'll be here Thursday.

Heard from R. today.  Apparently she got dragged up on stage at the Silversun Pickups gig in DSM the other day.  There's photographic evidence and everything.  How sweet is that?  And how badly do I wish I had been at that gig?

Finally turned in my newspaper ad for lessons today.  $40 for 2 weeks.  Seems pretty reasonable to me.  And there are other, more cost effective options, should I want to keep it in the paper longer than that.  My theory is that I see if these couple of weeks turns up any new students, and then go from there.  Now that the ad is turned in, I feel like I should be practicing 5-10 hours a day or something.

In that spirit, I played around a bit with the Hendrix again today.  Not 5-10 hours worth or anything, but it was still good to work on it two days straight.

All told, not a bad day today, but I still felt I should've had more to write about.  Tomorrow looks like a day around home.  Hopefully I can get some of the projecty stuff done in the morning, so that the rest of the day can be devoted to music stuff.

Besides, there's a jam session downtown tomorrow night that I want to go to.  Just to listen the first time, but still.  Gotta get my feet wet somehow, right?

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