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Day Two Hundred Forty (Year Six)

For those of you who have been following along since at least the beginning of the year, you know that I started 2016 with what looked on paper, to be a fairly aggressive list of goals for the calendar year.  I went back to my post from New Year's Eve 2015 in an effort to find exactly what I had written out, and it looks something like this:

1.  Finish learning the "Stairway" Solo.
2.  "Red House"
3.  "Little Wing"
4.  "I'm Tore Down"
5.  Finish Learning "A History of Rock & Roll in 100 Riffs"
6.  Practice Binder
7. GW Columns
8. Shore up my fretboard knowledge
9. Finish Writing & Recording the EP
9a. Power Pop Record
9b. Double Album?
10. Work my way through the Vai workouts.

The year started strong, with progress on both the EP and the Power Pop record, but March has been a bit quiet for me.  Doing a bit of work on both the EP and the other record had been on my list of things I wanted to get to this week, and I spent a few minutes tonight focused in on the EP, 

I've got the songs figured out that I want to use for it, and I've got the track order in place as well.  Now all that remains is to sit down and write some lyrics for those songs.  After that, I can get serious about recording some higher quality versions of things.  Either way, there was progress made tonight towards one of the goals on the list, and after what felt like a bit of time off from that list, it was good to fall back into it and get some work done.
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