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Day One Hundred Thirty Eight (Year Five)

Tonight was okay.  Better than yesterday, at any rate.

I made a little bit of progress in the whole "upload all the new music to iTunes" project, so I'm slowly inching my way towards done with that.  Hopefully a big push tomorrow can carry me through.

Also, I started working on a list of music to look for at Half Price Books this coming weekend (we'll be in Madison for a Counting Crows gig, so naturally there will be a trip to HPB), only to leave the list at work when I left for the day.  So I guess the rest of that will have to wait until at least Thursday, which is cutting it a bit close for me, but we probably aren't leaving until Saturday, so it will be okay in the end.

Made a bit of progress in Songs & Solos tonight, and started reading through the latest issue of Acoustic Guitar. 

Tomorrow needs to have a lot of studio time in it.  It will be nice to be able to get in there when I'm not exhausted at the end of the day.
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