friday random elevenish: “more walls” edition
After writing a whole bunch of paragraphs about how I’m seriously struggling with what I suspect is the second occurrence of the “six-month wall” and whining about how tired I am of everything these days, I decided that it was too cynical and deleted it.
Sure, there has been a bunch of crap this week, including insomnia, a panic attack, a fall on an after-work hike that still has me icing my knee, a work PC that decided it was dead, fighting with customer service on a never-delivered Christmas gift for my lovely wife (that the seller insist was delivered but won’t provide a tracking number), and a general kind of untargeted anger and malaise.
But, it wasn’t all bad. We had a historic change of management in Washington and the peaceful transfer of power persisted. I got a phat bonus along with this week’s paycheck due to an excellent performance review, which let me pay off some things, including my car, a little bit early, had a welcome video call with good friends the other night, managed to resurrect the work PC, and yesterday afternoon I had a nice pint at my local, along with a pleasant, socially-distant chat with Tom the owner/brewmaster that just might lead to a music gig once this ‘rona business is over…someday.
So yes, on balance, it was a wash, though if you go by actual word count in the “bad” and “good” paragraphs above, the positive wins out, so I’ll go with that.
As Tom says, “♫ …even walls fall down ♫”
Hopefully they’ll keep crumbling and give me a break this weekend. I’ve nothing in particular on the agenda, and I think I want to keep it that way. Play it loose, see what sort of interesting things crop up…or not.
Anyway, tunes. Since I’m thinking about walls in general (and because I won a copy of Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers and All the Rest” box set from WNRN this week), I set the Spotify algorithms loose on the tune I used in the header, which, along with much of the She’s The One soundtrack, came out of same bunch of tunes as that record; it makes for a bunch of Wilburys, and some nice, mostly mellow AAA rock:
- “Walls (Circus)” – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- “(Nothing but) Flowers” – Talking Heads
- “No Rain” – Blind Melon
- “Tiny Dancer” – Elton John
- “A Long December” – Counting Crows
- “So It Goes” – Nick Lowe
- “Into the Mystic” – Van Morrison
- “If Not For You” – George Harrison
- “These Are Days” – 10,000 Maniacs
- “Do Ya” – Electric Light Orchestra
- “Kodachrome” – Paul Simon
- “Ripple” – Grateful Dead
- “Crimson and Clover” – Tommy James & The Shondells
- “Just What I Needed” – The Cars
