It slipped my mind yesterday that I had accomplished something, of a sort. I have been making practice cuts of the Collision repertoire, and I finished a song (I Use to Think) and forwarded it to the drummer last night; I finished another, Free, this afternoon, partly because I’d started it before I I finished the other one, and partly because I’ve become rather facile at the midi composing software so I can crank them out pretty quickly. They’re not supposed to be particularly good, only reasonably accurate representations of the arrangements we’re doing so the band members can figure out their parts and work with a recording.

We also had a decent rehearsal tonight, with Baxter, Brittany, Adam, and me. As of tonight we have learned six of the eighteen songs, and we have tentatively agreed on seventeen of them which means there’s one slot left to fill in the repertoire. That’s a milestone, I think.

I’ve also e-mailed the text of that next book, Do You Trust Me?, to a couple of people whose opinions I respect, to get some preliminary feedback before I go to print. Now I’m going to have to practice patience while I await their responses.

Meanwhile, it’s all put me behind a bit behind tonight, so I’d better turn my attention to catching up.

–M. J. Young