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Day Two Hundred Thirty Six (Year Five)

We go home tomorrow, and I'm so not ready to get back to the real world.  I guess I'm not ready to go home, in part, because I over-packed, and there is still so much that I brought along that I haven't gotten to spend any time with.

Today was another good day, though.  I made some progress where songwriting is concerned, and took another look at the blues lesson I was working on yesterday.  Not only are there some cool soloing ideas in that lesson, there's also a lot of really good theory knowledge embedded within the context of the lesson.  I've started to get to some of that, but haven't gotten as far into it as I would like to.

We were out and about for a lot of the afternoon today (which is probably a good part of the reason I feel like I'm missing a bit of time), but it was good to be out in the city and fun to do a bit of shopping.  I picked up a few CDs at Best Buy (better selection here than at home... go figure), but we took everything to the car pretty quickly, so I can't recall titles at the moment.  There was a Manchester Orchestra disc, a record by Courtney Barnett, and a Blackberry Smoke album.  I had hoped to hit up a real Chicago music store instead of a chain, but timing didn't quite work out on that. Oh well, got to have something to do next time we're here.  And it will still be good to have some new tunes for the drive home.

I'm grateful to have at least a little bit of the morning to play a bit more before we head out of town.


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