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Day Thirty Nine (Year Five)

Today was a much better day than yesterday.

I got the last piece of artwork put up in the studio, and did some listening in the process. I haven't gotten around to the new record by the New Pornographers yet, but that one might have to wait a little bit,  as the new Counting Crows disc comes out tomorrow, and that will definitely occupy my listening in the next few weeks.

I got myself in the frame of mind for the new Crows record by learning "Recovering The Satellites" from 1996.

I got some of the CDs that had piled up put away as well.  Things have really come along well where the organizational side of things are concerned in the last few days.  The studio is really coming together well. Feels like it has been a long time coming, but now that things are looking the way they are,  I'm really looking forward to seeing the way the fall goes for me musically.

About the only thing I didn't get around to today was syncing the iPod, but considering that I would have had to do it again tomorrow,  I don't feel all that badly about missing out on that part.



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