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Day Three Hundred Forty Five (Year Three)

Had a fun, and safe 4th of July... I still have all of my fingers.

MTV and VH1 celebrated "Music Independence Day" today, where they showed videos all day long, and also promoted the independent artist.  It was cool to see music videos again.  It was also fun to sit on the couch with a guitar in my hands and try to steal cool chords from the live performance videos they aired.  Which I managed to do in at least one instance.  Go me.

In other news, after picking up file folders last week, today I stumbled upon a 10-pack of bankers file boxes on clearance when we went to Storm Lake for lunch and a bit of shopping.  Snapped those up, because I figure that they, of all things, will accommodate my hanging files, at least until I can find myself a file cabinet.  And who knows, maybe, if I get the system right, I won't need the cabinet because I got the boxes.  Either way, now I feel like I can really start to make serious progress in getting all of my music resources organized in a way where things will be both easy to locate and practical to use.

Listening for today was Elephant by The White Stripes.  Seemed fitting, what with all the red and (jack) white.  If only "Blue Orchid" had been on that record instead of Get Behind Me, Satan it all would have worked out oh so patriotically.

That's really all the news for today.  More tomorrow, and better.


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