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Day Sixty Four (Year Four)

A few interesting things happened today that feel worth noting here:

The first is this: I had something scheduled for tomorrow morning at 10 that has ended up being rescheduled until Monday afternoon.  What that means is that I end up having two (for sure) days that are wide open back to back.  So, yeah, I'll have a chance to get some serious music stuff done in that 48 hour time period.

Flowing directly out of that little bit of information is this: I finally got what is at least the first round of magazine files set up and labeled.  There are 12 of them:

- Fretboard Navigation
- Workouts and "Ways To Improve" type articles
- Lead Guitar, Scales, & Modes
- Bass & Other Instruments (banjo, ukelele, etc.)
- Folders & Handouts from when I took lessons
- Specific Artist and/or Genre Studies
- Songwriting
- Guitar World DVDs & Guides
- Rhythm Guitar
- Acoustic Stuff
- Blues

That's 11 of them, the 12th has the other Goldmine books (Rock, Country, & Jazz) in it.  I'm sure those will have their own units soon enough, but until they do, I wanted to keep them all in the same place.

But, yeah, between all of that, plus the stuff that's in my lone pile on the work table, plus what's already in the binder, I'm feeling pretty good about what's there right now.  Finding a way to incorporate it all into the binder itself, that may be a slightly bigger project, with photocopies and who knows what else.

All I know for sure is that I've got floor space again to deal with all of those issues, not to mention room enough to rock out and work on songs.
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