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Day Sixty Four (Year Three)

Well, I was right.  My box from B&N came today, and in it was:

1) Babel - Mumford & Sons
2) Uno! - Green Day

I made it all the way through the Green Day record, and about 60% through the Mumford record before I had to run off and do stuff tonight.  My initial reaction to the first couple of tracks on Uno! was that Green Day have a classic rock sort of sound now.  The rest of the record just ends up sounding like them, and it's a good, stylistically diverse record.  The hard part of talking about this album at this point is that it's part 1 of 3.  It's hard to put the first third of it in context without hearing the rest of it.  That said, I like it. 

I'm going to hold off on talking about the Mumford record until I've listened to the whole thing.

Also cool today, I got more feedback from my online ad for lessons!  I'm currently messaging back and forth with 3 people who are interested, and there's one more out there that I messaged yesterday and haven't heard back from yet.

I thought, for a second, that I was going to have to change a guitar string for a friend today, too, but they never got back to me after I offered.  Somehow I suspect that the issue will be raised again soon.

Did some more reading in Meet The Annas today, too.  I'm about halfway through it right now.

No real work on the Grohl Challenge or the Hendrix today, but I'm hoping that will change tomorrow.

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