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Day One Hundred Forty Nine (Year Eight)

So, things have been admittedly up and down lately.  I've missed some days and I've had short posts on others.  Good news, though, for the semester has reached its end.  I'm now officially off of work until the middle part of next month, and that will allow me to do a couple of different things:

First, it will let me end the year with (hopefully) some sort of bang.  A lot of that energy may well be spent putting pieces in place that will be capitalized on in 2018, but that's still progress and I'll take it.

And secondly, it will hopefully allow me to start of the new year on the right foot where the music is concerned, and in theory that good energy will carry me through.

That said, I continue to spend my days thinking over all of the things I've said I would like to get to in the next twelve months, and the longer I sit and think, the more stuff I end up jotting down in that notebook.  I understand completely that this is a bit of a mixed blessing, and that in some way I would be better served trying to do less rather than potentially over-extend myself, but some part of me just wants to lay everything out on the table right at the start, and then go from there.  We'll see how things shake out over the next week and a half or so, but I'm really looking for big things next year.

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