It’s Monday.

You might have noticed I didn’t post the usual random playlist thing on Friday. I had planned on it; in fact, I even had Pandora spinning in the office bright and early on Friday morning. That said, soon after I got to the office, I realized that while my building had power in the aftermath of Michael, a lot of the rest of the post didn’t, including the HQ building up the road. Also, just after I came to realize that because HQ was without power, so was the little data center, and I didn’t have phone or internet either, my mobile phone rings with the automated message that the post, because of significant power outages, was on a two hour delay.

Note that I was already here.

I had a couple of squatters come by from HQ who also didn’t get the memo, though they mostly moved on when there wasn’t any service here, and around 8:30am, my mobile rang again (as did everyone else’s in here) letting us know that we were essentially closing up shop for the day. I went home, sat in the chair with a cat, played some Fallout 4 (I’ve started up again after getting frustrated with it a few months back), and enjoyed the day off.

Saturday was pretty quiet; I mostly did laundry and went to the farmers’ market, though I did a quick stop by the new Petsmart they opened up in town (ostensibly to look for cat nail clippers) and came home with the nail clippers and a couple of Serpae Tetras to fill out the school – after a few years of keeping these gorgeous guys, I’d lost a few and was down to three, and being schooling fish, they like large groups. They all started schooling immediately and really brightened up their color within half an hour. Nice.

Sunday the spouse and youngest child had an adoption event with the RSPCA (where they volunteer a couple of times a week), at Ardent Craft Ales in Scott’s Addition, and they totally twisted my arm to come along, where I spent a few hours in the beer garden trying some local brews, chatting with RSPCA volunteers and other folks, and petting dogs. It was a nice afternoon, and Ardent’s Baltic Porter is amazing.

After the Ardent event, we walked over to Isley a couple of blocks over, because word on social media was that Curry In A Hurry (definitely one of the top food trucks in RVA for my money) was supposed to be there, but it turns out they weren’t. Oh well.

That’s the weekend rundown, other than the fact that my new laptop arrived Saturday, and I spent most of the afternoon/evening setting that up to my liking, with the restoring files from backup, installing the applications I need and getting rid of the bloatware I don’t. It’s a nice machine so far; I think it’ll do the job. One day this week I’ll set the recording rig up and see how the sound card plays with the rest of my gear.

Not sure what the week ahead holds for me – the weather’s seriously cooled off; I’ll try to get some biking in (digging out some cold weather gear, I guess), though it’s also still pretty damp. I could use a few low-impact days, as the coming weekend’s going to be busy.