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Day Three Hundred Sixty Five (Year Five)

I only had a few hard and fast goals I wanted to accomplish tonight, and I'm contented by the fact that I got to everything I felt I needed to get to.  Tonight, I:

1) Sat down and made some decent progress on the music for the EP.  I've felt the need to block things out in a more official manner for the last couple of weeks, and there was definite progress on that front tonight.  I got one of the songs completely blocked out, and have a couple of fresh ideas for another one that has given me trouble over the years, so I'm excited about the direction that is heading in right now.  In a perfect world, I'd get up early enough to work on it a bit more before we head out for Sioux City in the morning, but we shall see.

2) With everything old now imported onto the new computer, I sat down tonight to start figuring out exactly how much of the newer stuff I've picked up needs to be brought into iTunes.  Right now there are about a half a dozen albums on that list, and I'm pretty sure that I'm leaving a couple out right now.  Still, it feels good to be at the point of addition again.

3) And speaking of computers, I finally got the iMac that I came into last week at least into the studio.  As of yet, I'm not quite sure where I'm going to set it up yet, but that is a project for another time.

That seemed like a pretty solid night to me.  About the only thing I didn't get to was "Red House," but there will be time for that either tomorrow, or Sunday when we get back.
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