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Day One Hundred Eighty (Year Three)

So, today was the day that I finally got around to getting a little bit of work done.

1) I got to spend fifteen minutes before church this morning sitting with the acoustic that I keep in the Mrs.'s office for Monday nights when I teach.  That was a glorious way to start the day.  I picked up the acoustic thinking "songwriting," only to find that what came out was the first part of the intro to the unplugged version of "Layla."

2) I sat down this afternoon with everything I've thrown together in the last few days, and got in a bit of solid practice.  Shuffle rhythms and pentatonic scales were the order of the day, but I enjoyed it, and so, as basic as it was, it was necessary.

3) I found a really cool program on my phone today for chords and scales.  It's called JamBox.  While I downloaded the free version that comes with less bells and whistles, I still think it's going to be helpful.  I only wish my NOOK had a similar program... bigger screen, easier to see, and all that.

4) After almost three weeks of hemming and hawing, I finally sat down today and started to block out the song I'm going to finish by the end of the month.  With only 11 days to go, I know I'm really pushing my luck here, but I'm hopeful that, having started, things will come together quickly.

Today was the day I was hoping for yesterday, so that my afternoon could have been spent building on those successes, instead of starting them.  No sense in being frustrated with progress, though.  I've just got to keep charging ahead.

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