it's so hard to wait

            TUESDAY 11/2/18 9:16AM--A songwriter friend told me and the Internet says ANY recording of a song, no matter how primitive, will automatically copyright the song...to REGISTER the song with the Gov't is (naturally) a "gov't project"...If ever you find yourself in a litigation dispute, having the song registered more or less puts a stop to that--I think...if I can remember HOW to do it, I'll try to record the songs on my phone, mail the recording to myself, feed it into my iTunes Library, and make CDs of them...

              9:40AM--So I went upstairs to my bedroom to do my homework...now all I gotta do is practice the songs...repeatedly...and remember to put a capo in Ebay's case--if there isn't one in there already...
                 10:26AM--I had a recording from GYY on my phone that I recorded on October 18th...I mailed it to myself and downloaded it...it automatically went into my iTunes Library, which is how *I* set things up...I could, if I wanted to, spit it out onto a CD...I think this means I could record solo acoustic versions of my songs and repeating that process, copyright them...I have more than enuff blank CDs to do 'em one at a time...I think the best place to record them might be the basement; I think I'll get a slightly better sound down there...I might actually, after recording them on the phone, record them on the BR-1180...I dunno when I'm gonna actually do it...Dianne will be in the hospital for an overnight stay starting Thursday morning...I suspect I'll be at her side for most of the day, time I could spend here at home practising and/or recording...so I guess I'm gonna be fairly busy tomorrow...
                I guess I really need to summon the courage to do stuff like that here at home, even if Dianne's here...but first I should focus on the Fourth Thursday...
       3:39PM--having trouble focusing on Thursday...thinking about recording songwriting demos...gotta cut that out, the only day I have to prepare for the open mic is tomorrow; so I'll have to put the song demos on the back burner--maybe do 'em on Friday...
WEDNESDAY 11/28/18 9:42AM--it turns out, I'll have a few hours alone at home Thursday between about 9AM-1PM...Dianne has reluctantly accepted the fact that I have a gig tomorrow...I hope she'll get over it soon....I can practice while I'm watching ST-TOS this evening, that's an hour right there...Personally, I think we'll be pretty dammed good, all things considered...
     10:23AM--it belatedly occured to me that maybe the other members of the band feel the way I do-- it can't/won't be exactly like the record, so don't expect it to be...
  3:15PM--I've spent the better part of thirty minutes listening to DRIVER 8, an REM song I barely knew yesterday...someone (Stoney?) is singing it tomorrow night...I think I'll be ready for it, and hopefully, everything else we're doing...I haven't paid too much attention to TIME AFTER TIME...I should have some time tomorrow morning before I got back to the hospital...gotta get a bag of M&Ms...and some cash from the Bank...but not too much...
8:38PM- I’m getting better with the various riffs in the various songs… Oddly enough the only one I’ve really haven’t spent much time studying  is TIME AFTER TIME...not worried yet...