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Day Thirty Four (Year Five)

Tonight was awesome.  In truth, tonight's goings on were what I had hoped for out of last night, only to have last night come up short.  Anyway, I:

1) Got a bit more listening crossed off of the list today.  Slowly but surely I am making my way through all of the new purchases from our Wisconsin trip.  I'm cautiously optimistic at this point that I might get through everything by the end of the weekend.

2) Learned "Stand By Me" on the ukulele tonight.  Not only is that a classic song, but it's a fairly simple one to rip through, and it's a whole lot of fun to play.

3) Things started to get better when it comes to the mess that has been the studio for the last week or so.  I don't have all of the posters and artwork hung up yet, but I scouted places for most of it.  I also got a lot of the resources and books that have been lying out in the open put back into the closet, which frees up quite a bit of floor space.  I haven't moved the bookshelf in yet, but that will happen soon enough.

4) For the last few days, I've had a whole lot of EP-related thoughts running through my head.  I decided on the way home from work that tonight was the night to get all of those thoughts out and down on paper, just in case there was some clarity to be found in that regard.  What I ended up with was a series of EPs (two of them, to be exact), and a few extra tracks that don't fit in with either EP right now.  I guess doing all of that writing back in the early part of the year really panned out.  There are still a few loose ends to wrap up, and a whole lot of lyrics to work on, but that project is feeling like it has some traction again, after going a whole lot of nowhere for the last few months.

Yes, all told, it was a pretty great night in the studio.
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