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Day One Hundred Five (Year Seven)

So, I had every intention of sitting down and working on that transcribing today, and then I got distracted by another project and another thing that has been on my mind, and I let my day get wrapped up in that.  Here's where my head was at:

Way, way back in January, I had declared 2016 to be a "Finish Year," and I had a decent sized list of things that I was going to cross off of my musical To Do List during the ensuing twelve months.  And through the first couple of months of the year, I was actually making some decent progress.  Then March happened.  That was the month when our lives really started to get put on hold.  All the way through spring and summer and a little bit of fall.  Between my wife's graduation and job hunt and our move and getting the house somewhat settled and me starting my own job, things got a little busy in the middle six months of 2016.

Not that I haven't gotten things up and running since we've been in the new place, because I have.  The studio is in good shape, and the only thing I still haven't found is the looping pedal.  If I can't hunt it down by the end of the year, I'm just going to buy myself a new one, but anyway.

I'm finding myself finally coming out of the fog, looking around at a calendar that tells me it's November!!!!! and wondering exactly what happened to all of my grand plans for 2016.

Now, I'm not writing off the year entirely.  On the other hand, now that I finally feel like I'm getting back on track, I'm going to use the last two months of the year to get things squared away, so that I can really hit the ground running in 2017.

The next fourteen months are going to be interesting.

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