It was a weekend. Objectively, a beautiful weekend. It was sunny, and blew past 80° F here in central Virginia, which is weird, but not unknown in this part of the world. It was bound on either end by temperatures in the low 40s, so there is that.

Anyway, the big highlight of the weekend happened early, as illustrated photgraphically in this post. For Christmas, I bought the oldest kid tickets to the Richmond stop on the current Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox tour, which finally came round on Friday night. For those unaware, according to the wikipedia page, PMJ is a “rotating musical collective founded by arranger and pianist Scott Bradlee in 2011.” They take lots of modern pop songs and arrange them into early 20th century music genres, like ragtime, jazz and swing. There’s a rotating cast of performers (I think there are currently two tours going right now, one in the states, one in Europe), and you’ve probably seen their videos and stuff on YouTube, which is where the kid found them a while back and turned me on to them.

The kid and I had a pretty good time, doing dinner at an amazing barbecque place in town, then hitting the show. We ran into some friends (of course), and generally enjoyed the music and on-stage antics. The horn section totally stole the show, btw. We both needed it; the week leading up was pretty stressful.

Otherwise, the weekend was low-key. I did some grocery shopping, paid the bills, re-arranged some scheduled appointments, finished a book, and bought myself an angled amplifier stand. I watched my kid finish FFXV, and my wife do some alterations on her dance dress. I caught a porygon, and I spent most of the time wrestling with sinus headaches. It was…mixed.

Here’s to hoping this week is a little easier to deal with.