For the last couple of months, our program management center leadership team has been working on establishing more codified processes to get requirements properly managed, documented, and satisfied. Before we started this, there frankly wasn’t much of a process, which kind of pisses off auditors when they come in to look at things.

So, this week we’re starting to take the process out to the field, and it’s becoming tedious. Lots of it is centered around a particular law and some industry standard classification systems, and while those points are pretty clearly documented and easy to explain, it’s a real pain in my ass dragging these set-in-their-ways folks kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Lots of saying the same thing over and over in slightly different contexts and totally having the information not penetrate their thinking.

It’ll get done, but it’s honestly not going well; I’m still deciding whether the deficiency is on the part of the target or the deliverer, but landing on the latter; damned Dunning-Kreuger.

Otherwise, since the really nice (apart from the vulpine saboteur) mountain bike adventure, I’ve had a couple of head-clearing outdoor adventures on foot, which have helped me retain some sanity after disengaging from the daily vocation.

I also got out and voted early at the courthouse, because I’m booked for a dental procedure on election day and have no idea how I’ll be feeling. Better to get it done now. You should too.

Looking to the weekend, Saturday we’re heading out to Williamsburg with some friends to catch our old Marscon compatriots Griff’s Room Band at The Virginia Beer Company for their “reunion” tour. These guys are excellent players and we’re hoping it’ll spark some pleasant hops-and-malt infused memories.

I changed up the playlist a bit this week; instead of just grabbing Discover Weekly, I had the algorithm dieties build a playlist from that first song from Charlottesville VA singer/songwriter Rob Cheatham, that I heard on WNRN yesterday afternoon on the way back from the park, where it just kind of grabbed me as an example of a damned near perfect storm of pop song (reminds me of some stuff I used to hear in central PA bars in the ’90s). The rest follows from there, and kind of keeps that pop/rock alchemy going. It’s a little repetitive, but the revisits (particularly #8’s whole deal and the simple-but-awesome bass on #11), as the kids say, “slap” and are “total bangers”:

1. “Love You Forever” – Rob Cheatham and Co.
2. “Records” – Lily Hiatt
3. “Let A Little Light In” – Parker Millsap
4. “Aaron Lee Tasjan” – Til The Town Goes Dark
5. “Party Right Here” – Ron Brody
6. “I Know You’re Gonna Break My Heart” – Rob Cheatham
7. “New Age” – Cut Throat Finches
8. “The Night David Bowie Died” – Lily Hiatt
9. “Baby Let’s Go” – Fruition
10. “Sipsey” – Will Stewart
11. “Wake Up” – Chastity Brown
12. “Red Silo” – H.C. McEntire
13. “Long Way Down” – Becca Mancari