Inching Towards The Finish Line

I woke up this morning at 3:15.  Almost 3 hours before I needed to wake up, almost 6 hours before I WANTED to wake up.
What to do?
Put on a pot of coffee, and head into the home studio.

I've been having trouble getting decent rough mixes of Gravedigging For Two.  I want these so I can play them endlessly to myself as I rock out on the subway.  It gives me time to process how I want the mix to end up when I finally have John Jamieson mix it (and when I can finally put it to bed and move on to the next project).
I spent my spare time this morning working on Little Rose Tattoo, and think I've got a solid feel for how the song wants to be heard.  VERY happy, for me.  Now I can move on to the other 9, trying to combine the urge for each track to own itself while shaping them as a cohesive album.

I guess I shouldn't be anxious to rush this - I wrote LRT more than 15 years ago.  It's gone from a cool swing, to a chugging dark rant, to something that (to me) brings out some old-school R&B/Soul.

Either way, I'm excited to have reached another milestone.  I think.