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Day One Hundred Ninety Four (Year Six)

Today was an odd mixture of getting a big early step out of the way for FAWM, and also feeling like there was more I should have done.

I (mostly) finished taking all of my notes about what the little riff or small chord progression I recorded was.  I say mostly because the only ones I didn't completely finish taking notes for are the ones that are the farthest along in the writing process.  The ones where there won't be much (if any) hunting and pecking to figure out what I did.  That felt like a big step, knowing what key 6 of the 10 are in, knowing the rough progression I played along with the idea, and having the other 4 be in better shape.  I know I should have stayed up late enough to finish off my notes, but I go in really early tomorrow, and I need to get some sleep. 

The way it sits, tomorrow night's work will finish off the notes for the ideas that are already out there, and perhaps give me some indication of what is still missing song-wise for the other 4 songs on the FAWM project.

Getting into the studio as late as I did tonight left me focusing only on that, and not the things I so very much need to get back to sometime in the next 24 hours.  That being said, I still found time to sneak in a bit of the Jerry Lee Lewis biography.  Only about 60 pages to go!

Today was a good day.

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