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Day Forty Eight (Year Three)

Today was one of those days that slips past you before you know it.

NPR was streaming the new Aimee Mann disc, so I listened to the first half of that at least somewhat.  I'll save my first close listen of that record for the good headphones and the big stereo, but I like what I had on in the background as I was waking up this morning.

Lessons tomorrow, so this afternoon I went back through the notes I took after teaching last week, if only to remind myself of what we had covered, and what was coming up next (assuming that everything from last Tuesday got assimilated).  I'll go back over it tomorrow at least once before 4:30.

Started to wade through the two guitar magazines I picked up the other day as well.  The issue of Acoustic Guitar has an article on Chord Progressions For Songwriters that, I suspect, will be helpful for the making of my living room record.

I didn't really get much of anything done in that regard today.  Tomorrow will be better for that, though.  Gotta get started again.  Don't want to lose momentum or start hating the ideas I already have.

The other thing that ought to happen tomorrow is the writing out of an ad, either for social networking or the newspaper (or both) promoting my lessons.

Oh, one other note on that subject: SL said that she'd tell the music teachers she knows in town (3 of them) about my lesson enterprise.

That's really all for today.  More tomorrow, and better.

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