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Day One Hundred Fifteen (Year Four)

Today was a good day, music-wise.  Found a few LPs for 25 cents apiece at one of the local thrift stores.  Got a little bit of classical, and a little bit of jazz.

As for the stuff from yesterday's list... I did okay, but not fantastically.  I got the new Counting Crows disc imported into iTunes, and am charging the iPod as I type this.

I also gathered up everything music-related that had wound up in the living room (including the couple of books I picked up the other day), and hauled it all back into the studio.

I'd have gotten to a lot of playing, but when I made it into the studio, I looked around at the mess that it had become and decided to spend most of my time in there getting things put back in some semblance of order.  I'm thinking I need another small shelf in there that can hold the stuff I'm currently working on, which would free up the work table for the immediate project.

Feeling pretty good now that everything is back in order.  Like my tomorrow, and the rest of my week will be positive and productive now that I feel like I can go in there and work instead of feeling like things need to be put to rights.

Tomorrow will be a better day for the playing side of things.
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