Day 9 progress

I have the morning off, so I wanted to make the most of it. My fiancee and I went out for breakfast, and after she left for work, I started to do a few things around the house.

22. Build a home studio: I bought some battery powered moon lights at Home Depot for my gear closet. They do a good job of lighting the closet when both of them are on. After that I hung up my cable kepper, hung all my cables (except the heavier gauge ones that want to stay coiled), reorganized the shelves a bit, and moved some more of my gear into the closet. All that is left for the closet are the guitar cases and the empty boxes for my rack effects (which may end up in the attic rather than take up space in the closet). To finish the room I need to get a new desk, paint one of the walls, vacuum the room, move the futon, and hook up all my gear (which will take longer than everything else combined).

25. Listen to every one of my tracks on iTunes: My current total is up to 99 of 5790.

42. Read 50 books that I have not read before: I finished Loveless last night.

I've only read 2 books in the 33 1/3 series, Loveless and Doolittle. Of the two, I think that Doolittle, which covers the Pixies album of the same name, was the superior of the two, both in subject matter and in execution. Maybe it's because I am more familiar with the album Doolittle (it's one of my top 5 albums personally), but the book about Loveless seemed to have less direction and raw information about the album and the recording process. The only thing I took away from the book Loveless was that Kevin Shields was obsessive about the album while recording it. I hope that In Utero is more along the lines of the Doolittle book.

51. Save $1 cash each day for 1001 days: I picked up $10 while I was at Home Depot. My total is now $30.