It is Friday, and a welcome one. Although this was a short work week (I was off Monday), it felt extra long, as they do, especially since several of the days were extended, stuck-on-the-phone for ten hours days. If all falls together as I hope, I’ll be taking those hours back for myself this afternoon. Of course, I just have to wrap up the task that today’s header refers to. It’s a thing that should be simple, but the slave-to-policy automatons I have to deal with can’t get past the fact that it’s just a bit different. Oh well, I shall persevere, and my boss will say nice things about me to the right people (because he does that, thank $diety) since I pulled his ass out of the fire again.

I guess it could be worse.

I have absolutely nothing on the agenda for the weekend, which is just fine for me. I’m still struggling with a sinus headache that kicked in after my bike ride yesterday; between the pollen in the woods (which I can mostly tolerate) and the dust and whatnot kicked up by the lovely spouse’s “clear out the crawlspaces” efforts this week, it’s not been a good 24 hours for the plumbing in my head.

After last night’s storms the gnomes hammering behind my forehead, I’ll probably take a day off from biking (I’ve got more than 20 miles logged so far this week, I won’t feel too guilty), and try to relax tonight before hitting the usual weekend routine of groceries, biking, and laundry.

And that’s fine.

Anyway, tunes. Lots of neat modern indie I’m kinda digging (gonna look that band at #3) with just enough 80s and 90s stuff to engender familiarity:

1. “Vampire Weeknight” – Jenny Owen Youngs
2. “No Way Sit Back” – And The Kids
3. “Frequent Crier” – Future Teens
4. “Superbike” – Jay Som
5. “General Electric” – The Ophelias
6. “One More Hour” – Sleater-Kinney
7. “Diamond Meadows – Anthony Phillips
8. “The Whole of the Moon” – Kirin J Callinan
9. “Super-Connected” – Belly
10. “Friend Is A Four Letter Word” – 1 Trait Danger
11. “Earn Enough For Us” – XTC”
12. “1972” – Broken Social Scene