I’ll be honest, I’m pretty damned exhausted. It’s been a long week. Pretty much every work day has clocked in at well over the standard eight hours; I’ve been plugged into online meetings for most of those hours, and the rest has been full of documentation, deployment planning for an upcoming major system upgrade, test cycles, and management trying to pile on more and more responsibilities to my already overflowing spoon drawer.

I will say that my bosses, for the most part, are sensitive to overwhelming me with work, because, as they constantly tell me, they need me and don’t want me to leave. That said, I’m very much approaching my limit, and the guy who’s trying to pin management of the SharePoint program on me just might be a bridge too far.

Ugh.

At least I’m lined up to have a couple of million in programs funded this month, as soon as Congress gets off their ass and stops with the ‘Groundhog Day’ budget crap, which is, to be honest, damned frustrating. I can only update this song so many times.

While work has been overwhelming me this week, I’ve also been supervising landscaping contractors working some cool stuff outside, and my lovely spouse engaging in Herculean efforts in decluttering inside. That’s when I wasn’t driving across the county to rescue her with a new car battery. Free time is definitely at a premium. It’s a good thing I got well ahead of the FAWM curve last week, because I’ve only got two down so far this week, and recorded neither of them. Still, I’m past the halfway point four days ahead of schedule; I’m not worrying about not hitting the goal…yet.

The weather today, however, looks gorgeous; even better than yesterday, which was particularly beautiful. I’m going to do my best to tick off a few boxes then knock off a early and put some miles on my bike tires – I really need that right now.

Enjoy what weekend you’ve got – lots of the usual stuff here, though my lovely spouse and I have plans to do a pre-emptive Valentines’ dinner at the new Indian place in town, and spend an evening working through the latest Hunt-A-Killer box, which is turning out to be one of the better holiday gift investments we’ve made – working through the clues is a lot of fun.

So tunes – interesting, kinda mellow alternative/indie again, which a surprising focus on Yeshua (#11 is actually catchy as hell), and the Doobie Brothers cover closing things out comes from the amazingly titled album Gizmodgery, which was recorded entirely with kids’ toy instruments. Boing.

1. “Nine Billion Names (To A. Clarke)” – Mooncake
2. “Mass Romantic” – The New Pornographers
3. “Marrow” – Thao, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
4. “Half Baked (live) – Jimmy Campbell
5. “Donna” – Rubblebucket
6. “Car Song” – Elastica
7. “Crumb Back” – Mega Bog
8. “Dream Never Dies” – Lo Moon
9. “Southern Mark Smith (Big Return) – The Jazz Butcher
10. “Pattern Doubt” – Young Jesus
11. “The Sexual Loneliness of Jesus Christ” Jackie Leven
12. “Stohner” – MAN ON MAN
13. “Wounds of Love” – Nation of Language
14. “What A Fool Believes” – Self