Banjo Challenge 60-Day Update

I've missed a few days... yesterday due to the exhausting drive home with the camper trailer and then sleeping, another day earlier this week when I just didn't get it in, and three days when we were in Boston.

What I'm learning:

• Practicing helps. I may not see the results NOW; they'll come in time. Repeating parts I'm really slow with (for five minutes or so!) helps a LOT.
• I've been practicing a pull-off, so you'll hear that in the latest update to Cripple Creek.
• When it's a new song, I suck at it for a long time.
• I CAN get better (compare "Old Time Religion" to last time).
• I get bored with the "old" songs I started with. I'd rather practice new pieces (even though I stink at them).
• There's no good way to hold this thing, and I don't need the strap when I sit. (I need to wear pants so that there aren't two big ridges in my thighs after 30 minutes.
• Thirty minutes goes faster when you've got more songs to practice.
• I need to trim the fingernails on my left hand at least every week.

Bear with me... I'm only on Day 60!