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Day One Hundred Five (Year Three)

Taught after work again.  My student is making slow and steady progress, which at this point, I will take as a victory.  She still has trouble focusing, but I feel like we're getting somewhere.

Also of note when it comes to my teaching: it's looking pretty certain that I'll be getting a 3rd student at some point soon.  Their parents have agreed to lessons, and all that remains between now and them starting is getting a broken string fixed.  This is awesome news.

Worked on "Stairway" for a while tonight.  Felt good to get back to it.  I ran through everything up to the solo, and was happy with the way it's coming along.  Granted, this was the easier part the last time, too, but it's feeling better now than it did then, so I'll take that as a win.

Found my magazine boxes tonight as well.  Started filling the first one with all of the resources I had pulled and set aside the other day.  I've got three more to fill.  Whether I use them all or not remains to be seen, but they are there in the event that I need them.

Listened through most of the rest of the Wallflowers disc today in my travels around town.  It lacks the "classic" sounding mid-tempo songs that usually crystallize one of their records, but I still really like it.

I'm hopeful that this weekend (a three day weekend for me!) will afford me some time to get around to sorting some of Mrs. S's. music and getting some of it imported into itunes.  We shall see what happens on that front, but it would be a cool win if I could get it.

More Zeppelin tomorrow!

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