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Day One Hundred Eighty Two (Year Five)

After the success of last night, I wanted, at the very least, to spend a few minutes tonight continuing to look at (and work on) the songs.  I went back through what I had ironed out last night, and found myself still really happy with it, which was awesome because I do sometimes struggle with that.  For whatever reason, I'm feeling incredibly optimistic that the end of January and all of February will be an extremely productive five weeks for my songwriting.  A lot of that, I know, will just be the willpower to work at it every day, but again I'm tired of not having anything finished.

I'm importing the new Decemberists record, What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World as I write tonight.  I can't quite believe that it has been four years since their last record.  Especially since I saw them on that tour.  Justin Townes Earle opened for them that night, and I'm still kicking myself for getting there a bit late and missing the first part of his set.  It was a great, great show.

So, we're headed out to NW Iowa after I get done with work tomorrow.  I'm planning on taking the notebook with my song ideas in it, and maybe spending some time with the Vai workouts and 100 Riffs while we're there.  We shall see.  All I know for sure is that tonight felt like it was a good night, and I'm hoping that the weekend continues that trend.
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