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Day One Hundred Sixty Five (Year Four)

We got home late tonight from our brief trip to NW Iowa.

That said, not a lot of time to spend in the studio, but I did get a few things done.

After getting my guitar and bag of music stuff from the trip safely stashed away back in the studio, I sat down for about a half an hour with the acoustic, and made my way through another couple of lessons out of the Acoustic Goldmine book.  What I like about (at least) the early stages of it is that each lesson really seems to build onto the next.  I've spent more dedicated time with the acoustic in the last five days than I had in the few months before that, and already I can see improvements in my playing.

The trick this week is going to be keeping up with the acoustic focus while incorporating some electric stuff into my routine.  I know I can do this.  I'm more focused now than I have been in the last four years, I'm establishing more definite goals, I've got the confidence that this year can be the year things really fall together for me.

Much like last night, I had just enough music at the end of the day to get me through, but I know that tomorrow needs to have more music in it in order for the optimism and the progress to continue.

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