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Day Forty One (Year Three)

Okay, so, Five Iron Frenzy was awesome!  I now see what all the hype was about all those years.  Admittedly, it took them a few songs to get warmed up (but when it's your 7th show back after 10 years off, that's to be expected, I think), but once they started clicking, the band was hot.  Here's what they played, although I was admittedly not familiar with any of it:

1. Blue Comb '78
2. Third World Think Tank
3. American Kryptonite
4. Oh Canada
5. Handbook For The Sellout
6. Pre-Ex-Girlfriend
7. Beautiful America
8. You Can't Handle This
9. Suckerpunch
10. It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
11. Cool Enough For You
12. When I Go Out
13. Juggernaut
14. Where 0 Meets 15
15. Fistful Of Sand
16. You Probably Shouldn't Move Here
17. My Evil Plan To Save The World
18. At Least I'm Not Like All Those Other Old Guys
19. One Girl Army
20. Farsighted
21. Every New Day

Other acts we saw included:

1) Run Kid Run
2) John Reuben
3) Flight Metaphor
4) Silver Line

All in all, my LifeLight experience was pretty cool.

Today, on the other hand, was one of those hodgepodge days where bits and pieces of a lot of things get done, but nothing gets finished completely.

I thought a lot about lessons tomorrow, but didn't write anything official down today.  I need to get started on that early tomorrow morning, if only to clarify my thoughts before I go into it.

I did a small bit of alphabetizing of CDs, but didn't make it all the way through B in the time that I had.

I picked up a guitar for a few minutes today, but not long enough that I can rightfully consider what I did a "practice session."

Like I said, today was a hodgepodge.  Tomorrow there needs to be a more focused effort on getting things musical accomplished.

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