friday random elevenish: “spring?” edition
My first (of six) weeks playing the boss for the team at work is wrapping up. It’s actually been a bit less stressful than I expected. I’ve not been *not* stressed (especially in the early part of the week), but it’s not been a complete disaster. I also managed to move some of my own projects along, which was kind of novel. We’ll see how the rest goes.
The rest of the week passed largely without incident. The weather’s been gorgeous, sunny and in the high 70° – 80° range. I took great advantage of it by logging sixty miles or so on the Capital Trail over the last few days, and seem to be getting my bike legs back pretty quickly. It felt good, and it’s nice to be reminded that I’m in pretty good shape (below the neck, anyway) for being a fifty year-old IT guy. Also, the flowers the “trail abassadors” plant along its length are starting to bloom, so that’s cool. Otherwise this week, it’s been more of the usual, though yesterday I did, however briefly, pay my credit card balance down to zero, at least until the next Chewy order full of cat food hits, so that felt good.
This weekend is filling up pretty quickly as well, oddly enough. Although no one in the house is Irish dancing these days, there’s talk of hitting the Church Hill Irish Festival at some point, because it’s usually a good time, and again, the weather looks pretty great. Also, Thursday afternoon I got a note from WNRN that I won a couple of tickets to the Wanda Sykes show in town on Saturday, so I guess we’re doing that as well, which also should be a good time, ahead of some bigger plans next weekend.
Otherwise, here are some Friday tunes, and the algorithm seems to have finally started shaking the “all americana, all the time” habit, and has a little more variety to it:
- “Thieves” – Sammy Rae & The Friends
- “Boombox” – Charlie Parr
- “State I’m In” – Sarah Gross
- “Vetiver” – Hurray For The Riff Raff
- “Bubble of my Gum” – DURRY
- “Willow” – Sister Sadie
- “Kreacher” – The Bridge City Sinners
- “I’M IN THE MARKET TO PLEASE NO ONE” – Winona Fighter
- “Panic Attack” – Judas Priest
- “Soul Shaker” – Sarah Lake
- “Wish Me WEll” – Red Shahan
- “Storm To Weather” – Grace Petrie
- “Bernadette” – Jason Scott
