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Day Two Hundred Forty Four (Year Four)

Got the rest of those magazines sorted and put away today.  Now I've only got a single pile of random mags sitting in the studio, and those would likely all fit into a single magazine file.  I was right when I said the other night that getting things a bit more squared away in there would help ease things up a bit.  It's definitely working, but it still seems like every time I walk in there, I spot some other small thing that can be done to make it better (side note: the Mrs. made the comment that the studio is the best organized room in the whole house the other day, and she might be right). 

Picked up the electric tonight for a bit.  Was really good to get that back underneath my fingers again, if only to knock off a little bit of the rust.

Caught up on some of the recent issues of things tonight as well.

Tomorrow is looking like it needs to be a day with a mixture of things.  In a perfect world, I will:

1) Get the iPod charged (and get some more music loaded onto it).
2) Make some progress on the 100 Riffs thing.
3) Do some acoustic stuff.
4) Sit and take some notes on next steps and changes for the record.

Also, I'm not normally the guy who takes the time to sit down and search out the song the praise band did at church on Sunday that was a cool tune, but I did that today.  My wife was familiar with the songwriter, and so I looked for the song today.  Apparently it's by Tenth Avenue North.  It's called "Worn," and it's on their new record.  Really cool tune.

And one more note before I go sleep for a bit... I got asked today if I'd be willing to play a bit of guitar at a church where one of our friends is the pastor.  If I do it, I think I'd go for that Tenth Avenue North tune.
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