Given that it’s Thanksgiving tomorrow, I’m going to be going dark(er than usual) for a couple of days; it’s just easier for my mental health. Deal with it. But, before I do, I’m going to mention that I’ve got a gig a week after Thanksgiving at Dancing Kilt, where I’ll be playing my eclectic mix […]

Amongst all the other things I find myself doing in my copious fair time, I recently contributed a couple of things to Cover To Cover: Filker Song Swap vol. 1, a charity compilation spearheaded by my friend Madison and the crew at Social Justice Bards (a collective of like-minded creative types I’m proud to be […]

Yes, I’ve been absent. It’s been a couple of weeks. I’ve been working like crazy. my lovely spouse has been dealing with medical issues. I’ve been helping. I’m trying to get a recording project done. I’ve been unpacking boxes. I’ve been hanging curtains. I’ve been reading books. I’ve been working even more. Life’s busy. But, […]

Bureaucratic Talking Shutdown Blues – 2023 edition by Chuck Parker Like I’ve said, I get a lot of mileage out of this song, because this is the world and political environment we live in, and mused about how I should update it. So I did. Not only did I tweak the lyrics, but I played/programmed […]

Bureaucratic Talking Shutdown Blues (2020) by Chuck Parker Damn, I’m getting a lot of mileage out of this tune, though I suppose I need to update it with some new lyrics, maybe about how this whole thing really stems from that one time that Kevin McCarthy cock-blocked Matt Gaetz… In any case, I’ve spent the […]

This week was, if that’s possible right now….normal? The work week started out wrapping up the workshop my team’s been working the last couple of weeks, documenting processes and doing our best to impose order on the chaos that is our agency’s information technology department, at least in terms of how projects and acquisition requirements […]

So, once again, my membership with independent music radio station wnrn pays off with free tickets to live shows in the area. This time, it was a pile of 90s rock bands touring together; exactly the sort of stuff one would hear on the radio while I was in college and my early ’20s. Fastball, […]

So, I’m a week and a half into a two-week virtual program management workshop. I genuinely like my co-workers; they’re all decent people from the boss on down, and we’re all working toward making things in our organization work a little better and make a lot more sense. “Drinking from the fire hose” is only […]

As of this past Wednesday, we’ve been in this house for two weeks. There are still boxes everywhere, though there are fewer than there were two weeks ago, and as I type this (on Thursday evening), I’m sitting here listening to some tunes (a new record from Worm Quartet, mostly) and the new LG WashTower […]

As indicated earlier, I spent most of this week in a funk. It sucked. I think, finally, though, I’m maybe coming out of it. I had a busy workday Thursday (which ended with C-suite level kudos to me in a departmental all-hands meeting, which was a nice surprise, even if it bumped right up against […]