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Day Two Hundred Twenty Four (Year Four)

I made it through another small step today.  One that got me at least a little bit closer to crossing off one of my goals for the year: I finished the first pass at finding a bunch of songs that I'd like to be able to use in a set list when I start playing live.  The reason it's the first pass?  I just found a playlist in iTunes from eons ago with 131 songs worth of set list ideas.  And there's good stuff in that list that wasn't on the one I started writing in my notebook, so there will be a second pass at set list stuff that I'd like to have done by the time the weekend rolls around, so that I can start working on some of these songs.

Aside from that, my studio time tonight was a sanctuary against a stressful day.  I savored my time spent with the acoustic tonight instead of feeling like I needed to cram a bunch of stuff into my brain.

I know I had said that I wanted to do some electric stuff tonight, but when I got into the studio, I just wasn't feeling like being particularly loud, so I backed off of that promise to myself, with the knowledge that I'll sling the stratocaster over my shoulder sometime in the next day or so and really dive back into 100 Riffs.  There are a couple of them that I'd like to tab out by hand, if only so that I don't have to haul my laptop back and forth between the desk on one end of the house and the studio on the other every time I want to work on something.

All told, it was a good day that could have used a little bit more music in it than I fit in.  I need to make better use of my time tomorrow than I did today.
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