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Day One Hundred Sixty Six (Year Six)

Not a whole lot to report today. 

We stopped by the bookstore after dinner tonight, and so I got to pick up new issues of Acoustic Guitar and Guitar World.

Didn't get much of a chance to sit down and have a look at song ideas tonight, but as I get closer to the weekend, I'm still feeling pretty good about where I am in terms of getting a handle on which song thoughts belong with which project.  I'm really hoping that tomorrow night will give me a bit more time to focus on some of that.

The other cool thing that happened today is that I figured out a way to get at least some of the tab for "100 Riffs" to print out off of SoundSlice.  Not much time to try and figure out how to get the whole thing yet, but hopefully I can solve that by the end of the week as well.  It's probably something stupid, even though I tried the "print all" option.

Oh well, not a bad day by any stretch, but not quite as good as I would have hoped for today.

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