I’ve been ridiculously productive this week; I finished fawm with a day to spare, even if I didn’t end up actually recording anything during February. I wrote fourteen songs, and a handful of them have potential, which is the idea. I’m aiming to have a new record ready to sell at Congregate this year, so I have until July to get ten songs in solid, fully-produced shape, which is totally doable.

I also cranked it at work, getting my MS Project skills back after fifteen years of letting them lapse, and have scheduled the heck out of all of the agency’s IT requirements so we can keep the program managers in line. Good thing, too, because it’s looking like starting in a week, I’m going to be the de-facto boss for six weeks while the regular boss is off on a little sabbatical. Joy. At least congress kicked the can a few weeks so we won’t be shutting down the end of next week; instead, if it happens, it’ll be right in the middle of my reign over the program support division.

I also handled some important stuff on the domestic front, paying bills and arranging plans for later this month, and all kinds of other things.

The big news is I did this with a killer sinus headache the whole freaking week, which was a serious challenge. Doing anything with those gnomes mining for mucus with their hammering and digging and pounding behind my eyes and forehead is.

But I did it, dammit. Here’s some songs:

1. “Middle of the Morning” – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
2. “Hey Jealousy” – Gin Blossoms
3. “Pilgrim” – The Wood Brothers
4. “Where Are You Going” – Dave Matthews Band
5. “Acid Country” – Tim Wilson
6. “Pink Triangle” – Weezer
7. “Sweet Oblivion” – Valentine Wolfe
8. “Body Brain” – Merciful Zero
9. “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version) – Taylor Swift
10. “Death Knell” – Ghost
11. “Nights in White Satin” – Oceans of Slumber
12. “Angeline Is Coming Home” – The Badlees
13. “Name” – The Goo Goo Dolls
14. “The Boy With the Arab Strap” – Belle and Sebastian