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Day Three Hundred Forty (Year Five)

I felt slightly overwhelmed this past weekend.  Lately it has just seemed like there aren't enough hours in the day, and I feel like I'm falling farther and farther behind on things.  With that being the case, I took a break from "Red House" tonight, and let myself start the last piece of the iTunes puzzle before I can fully consider myself musically moved into the new(ish) laptop... I put the two computers up side by side, pulled up iTunes in both of them, and started wading through to see what songs didn't make the initial transfer over to the new laptop.  Not surprisingly, I've found a decent amount already, and I'm only at the very beginning of "C."

My plan is to keep picking away at this slowly throughout the rest of the week, while fitting in the Hendrix and other playing around it, and then (hopefully) finish it up by the end of the weekend, burning CDs and getting everything transferred over.

Once that's done, my plan is to take everything that's not music related off of the old laptop, and move it into the studio.  I'm not optimistic enough that I'll be able to load ProTools onto it or anything, I just think that it might be of some use in there.

That's really all I've got today.  In spite of the lack of playing, I'm feeling pretty good with where I stand at the end of Monday.
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