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Day Three Hundred Fifty Six (Year Five)

Tonight was another good night.  I got into the studio on the earlier side of things this evening, and that afforded me the chance to get at least a bit of work done on a few different fronts.

I spent a few minutes playing around with the Hendrix tonight, but not enough time to justifiably say that I worked on anything new with it.  On some level, that was frustrating, but it seemed better to at least keep a toe in the water where "Red House" was concerned than to ignore it completely.  I really need to dive back in a bit deeper tomorrow if at all possible.

Most of what I focused on tonight was the EP project.  I'm making a bit of headway in terms of blocking out the songs that I'm hoping to include.  Tonight's work outlined the chords needed for both guitar parts on one of the songs (one part capoed, the other not).  I felt good about the progress on the EP for the first time in what felt like a long time, and that I will take tonight.  More work ahead on it tomorrow, though.

No real work on the iTunes project tonight, but I'm still optimistic that I can get that finished off by the end of the week as well.
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