friday random elevenish: “legislative wizardry” edition
Up until around 8pm last night, I didn’t know whether I’d be working today or not. That’s really not a nice feeling.
Congress did, however, manage to kick the can down the road at least a week or two, so I continue to sit conference calls, review test data, and work out how to make the new subscription-based chart app work so I can draw up some process flows.
It is just as exciting as it sounds, though if they can’t get their sh!t together two hours up I-95, we’ll be doing the same thing, or worse, in eight weeks, or even sooner if they don’t sort the debt ceiling business out.
The rest of the past week mostly involved allergies, twenty-four hours of migraines, and a few really nice bike rides. Y’know, the usual.
The big deal for the weekend is the band gig in NoVA tomorrow; couple of sets outside a library like back in the heady days of the mid-aughts at the peak of the wrock boom. I’m looking forward to it, even if I haven’t had the chance to really shake the dust off of my repertoire yet, though I expect that I’ll remedy that tonight. It’ll be nice to play with my friends for a while.
Otherwise, I’ll try to find some time to get the shopping and laundry done. The part-time rock star life is just so damned glamorous.
Tunes this week are trending toward obscure early 90s alternative, which, y’know, fine. It’s the kind of 120 Minutes-style stuff that geeky girl we all had an unrequited crush on back in high school listened to while we were stuck in the hair metal ghetto. Doesn’t explain that interlude of 70s prog-influenced pop there toward the end, but life, as they say, is a brilliant bouquet of endless variety.
Okay, maybe they don’t say that. Whatever.
- “Dickie Betts” – Dean Ween Group
- “Lack of Water” – The Why Store
- “Feed the Tree” – Belly
- “Just Like Heaven” – Dinosaur Jr.
- “Must of Got Lost” – J. Geils Band
- “96 Tears” – Garland Jeffreys
- “Complicated” – Poi Dog Pondering
- “Fly at Night (In the Morning We Land)” – Chilliwack
- “Fire on High” – Electric Light Orchestra
- “My Baby Blue” – John Hiatt & The Goners
- “I’m A Believer” – GIANT
- “One Big Love” – Patty Griffin
