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Day Two Hundred Fifty Five (Year Three)

Just 110 days until the end of the third year of the blog.  Wow.  I've been watching the numbers go up for the last few days and thinking about what has been better this year and what hasn't.  And then I found something cool tonight.  Something I started last year sometime.  It's the notebook I began, I think at the start of year three, where I went through the whole of the blog up to that point, and took detailed notes about what it was I had really wanted to work on throughout the process.  It was good to find that tonight, because it will help me to focus as the stretch run to the start of year four begins.  It was also cool to page through that notebook and see that some of those songs have been learned, some of those techniques have been studied, some of those ideas have been put into practice.  I haven't been perfect, mind you, there are a LOT of areas that require more attention and more focus, but it was still nice to be able to feel a bit of progress.

And speaking of progress, I started working on my song-of-the-month for April.  Found a chord progression and a rough tempo that I'm happy with.  It will serve as a good jumping-off point for whatever else is to come with the songwriting this month.

And the really cool part?  I've written mostly new stuff since the start of the year, so most of my song ideas from the Grohl Challenge haven't been touched in a while.  I'm going to get a full record out of this.  One way or another, I know, with absolute certainty, that it will happen.

Haven't talked to my brother yet, either.  That seems like it might be a Sunday afternoon type thing right about now.

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