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Day One Hundred Three (Year Three)

So, just for fun today, I went back and looked through the first 15 or so posts from the first time I tried to work my way through "Stairway."  Here's what I found:  In the first half of the month that year, I hardly worked on it at all. 

So even though I didn't really look at it much today, I still feel like I'm ahead of last time, which is cool.  That being said, I still need to put in some good work on it tomorrow, or else it will feel like it's starting to get away from me again.

Here's what did get done today:

1) Had a good conversation with the people leading the praise band at church.  That was a long overdue experience, let me tell you.  They don't really have a lot of time to rehearse right now, their other commitments being what they are, but they did suggest I get together with the piano player and start by working with her, so I'll try and set that up sometime soon.

2) Finally gave the ipod that sync and full charge it's been needing for what feels like forever.  I need to do more listening this week.  Having a fully charged ipod at my disposal will help.  Still need to have a day where I go through and import a bunch of stuff.

3) Started to make at least some sense of the living room.  I've got a good collection of stuff that needs to be put into those magazine boxes I picked up the other day.  I also had a chance to catch up on some recent guitar magazines that I'd been wanting to page through.  Admittedly, the sorting is going slowly right now, but it's being done right this time, which is the most important part.  (How many times have I said that in the last three years?).

I teach tomorrow, so that should be awesome.  Updates on that, Zeppelin, and anything else cool tomorrow.

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