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Day One Hundred Thirty Five (Year Five)

Today was a strange day.  It was a day full of housekeeping stuff where the studio was concerned.

One of the big things I wanted to get done this weekend was to get everything updated and synced where the iPod was concerned.  In order to even think about that step, I had to take stock of what has been uploaded recently (if you can even call it that), and what had been purchased but not included in the iTunes library.  Another part of that process was getting all of the music that has been floating around the house back into the studio.  That part of things happened late tonight, and so did the starting of the list of everything that needs to be uploaded.

One of the other random things that happened today was checking out a 37 minute interview with Colin Meloy of The Decemberists.  They've got a new record coming out in January, so there were a few performances of new songs, but a big part of the interview was Meloy going back through the history of his band's career and sharing stories from the making of those albums.

There was a new issue of Acoustic Guitar thrown into the mix, too. 

A bit of listening, and a bit of playing as well, but not quite as much of it as I was looking for.  Just a strange day all around.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a more typically productive sort of day.
  

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