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Day One Hundred Ten (Year Six)

I'll get the silly stuff out of the way first tonight.

1. The Mrs. swung by Target tonight, and picked me up the new issue of Guitar World with Keith Richards on the cover.  It's been a pretty busy week for guitar magazines.

2.  I passed on the jam session on campus tonight, when we had a rash of bad storms roll through town right as I was getting ready to head over there.

Those things included, it was a pretty good day.  The rest of it went something like this...

I got to a bit more of my listening tonight, which was a good way to kick off my time in the studio.  After that, I spent a bit of time getting things re-organized.  I'm not quite where I'd like it to be just yet, but a small bit of time tomorrow ought to get me there.

Once that was done, I picked up the electric, and started trying to figure out "Six Ways To Sunday" by Blackberry Smoke.  I know the song is in A, and I got to play around with it a little bit tonight, but not as much time as I would have liked to.  Got into the studio late, because I was hanging out with family that we don't get to see that much.  It was a good trade off.  Tomorrow will be a better day for music, even though today went all right.
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