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Day One Hundred Seventy Six (Year Six)

Today was an odd day.

I made a bit of progress in the Jerry Lee Lewis biography, and may have inadvertently started work on the power pop record.

I got into the studio on the late side, and was somewhat aimless in my initial work in there.  On a whim, I fired up the recording unit, more to access the guitar effects that are housed inside of it than anything else.  That brought me to one of the riffs that I had put into the list of things to consider for the power pop project.  I listened through, then figured out what the chords would be that went underneath the riff.  With a few suspensions to add and release tension, I had the kernel of what may well prove to be the first thing that gets that project from the "thought" part of the process to the actual "project" part.

It wasn't a huge step, by any means, but after the lack of progress with writing and recording lately, I feel like I've given two of the three projects I'd like to finish this year at least a little bit of a kick.  So, while I feel like I could have gotten a lot more done today, I'm still happy with the progress I did make.
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