It’s been a relatively quiet week (at work, anyway), capped off by a welcome surprise day off thanks to the Federal Government (including unanimous consent in this Senate!) making tomorrow, Juneteenth, a national federal holiday, which, frankly, is long overdue (now, let’s just pass *any* of the election reform laws floating around DC right now, […]

photo courtesy of my friend Wanda; focus on my cheater tablet stand rather than on me. So that’s Concarolinas in the books. Our shows went pretty well, considering we hadn’t played together in over a year. I thought we sounded good enough, and the folks who came to listen understood that we were shaking off […]

Going to do this today, because when I’d normally be prepping this post, I’ll be packing and heading south for my first live gigs in over a year. It’s still a little intimidating, even if after rehearsals that showed me that I haven’t forgotten nearly as much as I thought I had, to be getting […]

The weekend was…a weekend. Sure enough, it rained most of Saturday and Sunday, which the crops I see sprouting along Route 5 certainly needed, though it wrote off those days for the cycling I had so desired. But, I got the grocery shopping done, made a killer slow-cooker pot roast, dropped into Guitar Center to […]

I honestly don’t know what to make of this week. Not surprisingly, given last weekend, I kind of started behind, and honestly never quite caught up. So much of it has to do with trying to keep up with everyone else’s needs, tracking the requirements of two completely unrelated job descriptions, attempting to snag a […]

I took a few days off last week. I rather needed it. I slept in (for certain personal values of “slept in”), got some stuff done that needed doing (mowed the grass, detailed the car, etc), tried to relax a bit, and then on Friday, I got up in the morning and did the Cap2Cap, […]

In an *interesting* development, ten days after getting my second dose of the Pfizer shot, Monday night I got hit with a repeat performance of those wonderful side effects. Not as intense as the initial round, but still a slightly elevated fever, muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes. Joy. I know this means that it’s […]

All that broken stuff on Thursday in the last post? The train, as they say, keeps rollin’, though thankfully, it’s nothing that can’t be recovered from, though some things are rougher than others. To start with, I’ve been watching my lovely spouse deal with the stressful realization that something that’s been a significant part of […]

Apart from my spending the whole week thinking it was a day later than it was, I got a heck of a lot done, at least up until Thursday. Never got the hang, etc. Earlier in the week, they started migrating the email system at work to a different platform (the whats and whos aren’t […]

As I had indicated in Friday’s post, I got my second dose of the Pfizer vaccine that afternoon. The mass vaccination site I’d been scheduled for (a local university athletic center) was much less crowded this time around, in part because we’re doing pretty well in this state in terms of vaccinations overall, two, because […]