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Day Two Hundred Twenty Five (Year Five)

Tonight was a hodgepodge of different things.  It was more productive than yesterday, and a hint of what I'd like for the weekend to be.  I,

1) Worked on a little bit of the theory side of things, only with a couple of the secondary sources rather than the book I've been using most often lately.

2) Ran a few of the "100 Riffs" as a warmup for my fingers.  I haven't done much with that yet this month.  I need to work on that this weekend.

3) Did a small bit of reading from a book on songwriting.  I really need to have at least a small look at the EP this weekend, if only to start building momentum for Chicago next weekend.

4) There was a small bit of listening, also.  I need to get to some of the newer things, and take more time to digest them, and I also need to update iTunes & the iPod with some of the newer things (Airborne, Brandi Carlile, etc.)

5) I split my time pretty evenly between the acoustic and the electric tonight.  I need to keep that up this weekend, if not focus a bit more on the acoustic side of things.
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