As hinted at last week, I spent a great deal of this week fighting off a sinus bug that’s making its way around the household. I plodded through the work week, got some minimal time outside (my Pikmin Bloom group pooling for 100k steps is going to be tight), and did my best to sleep my way through it, feeling especially exhausted after the seven hour in-process review with the CIO on Wednesday (making for a ten hour day).

I felt a bit better on Thursday, and got some nice hiking time on the northwest side of Pocahontas after work, then took my lovely spouse out for a drink at the Kilt, which helped shake some of the restlessness, even if the place was a little crowded and the music on stage was rhythm-challenged.

Assuming I can shake the hangers-on today, I’m going to go try to ride the bike for a bit ahead of the weekend’s rain, and put some time in on a musical project a friend of mine and I are working…more to come there once we get something worth sharing together.

Oh, and I’ll probably have a beer somewhere, perhaps green, because it’s the proper day for it. Slainte!

Speaking of music – all over the place this week; kind of a 90s alternative vibe, even though a bunch of this is somewhat newer. Still hasn’t cleared Dio’s “Rainbow in the Dark” out of it’s week-long residency in my subconscious:

1. “Stray Cat Strut” – Stray Cats
2. “Growing Up” – The Linda Lindas
3. “Red Dragon Tattoo” – Fountains of Wayne
4. “Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)” – The Icicle Works
5. “Wilt” – Sloppy Jane
6. “Dethroning the Party Queen” – Rosalie Cunningham
7. “Honey” – AFTERxCLASS
8. “Bonnie” – Vylet Pony
9. “Dam, Damn” – Päter
10. “Stranded In Time” – The Unted States of America
11. “Doped Up Dollies On A One Way Ticket To Blood” – Big D and the Kids Table
12. “Love Impaired” – Dinosaur 94
13. “Spring and a Storm” – Tally Hall
14. “Aphrodite, Your Electric Sexiness” – Human Zoo
15. “Karen, You’re An Angel” – Sleeping in the Aviary
16. “The Cremation of Sam McGee” – Seth Boyer