Hell of a week this was. Couple of twelve hour work days, sprained wrist, and cold-like symptoms the last several days, which have played hell with my anxiety, as I’ve been having dreams the early part of this week that I’d caught the ‘rona at RavenCon and that would sideline my plans to participate in the Cap2Cap this weekend. So far, though, no temperature to speak of; just congestion and fatigue.

Oh, and that big political story that dropped Monday night; I’m not surprised by it, really – but it’s not good news at all. I have thoughts, and I might share them here later if I can get through all this other crap.

As it stands, I’m taking it really easy and trying to sleep this bug off and do my best to be well enough tomorrow morning to put the century behind me. I’m going to do my best, in any case – if I’m going to collapse doing 100 miles, this weekend is the time to do it, with the regular support stations and increased presence on the VCT. I’ll re-evaluate every 20 miles or so, and if it gets really bad, I’ll turn around.

I think I can do the century, however – I won’t be the fastest, but I’ll get it done and prove that I’m an old man in more than decent shape.

Also taking a long weekend, with Monday off; in part to recover, and in part because we’re going to to catch Doctor Strange 2 at the drive-in on Sunday night.

Oh, Ravencon was cool, if a bit exhausting. We saw friends, enjoyed some music, bought a couple of books, and I booked another gig (ConGregate down in NC in July), but we ended up bailing early on Saturday, and giving Sunday a miss because we were peopled out.

Here are some tunes – much of the front end of the list falling in around the bpm mentioned in the title, making it appropriate for both what I’m doing tomorrow and and the list. Oh, and it closes out with an excellent tune from one of my favorite bands…can’t beat that:

1. “My Sister” – Julianna Hatfield Three
2. “Oh Daddy” – Adrian Belew
3. “Crazy” – Pylon
4. “Mockingbirds” – Grant Lee Buffalo
5. “My City Was Gone” – Pretenders
6. “Bullet” – The Reverend Horton Heat
7. “Evangeline” – Matthew Sweet
8. “Ecstacy (Apple of My Eye)” – Strawberry Switchblade
9. “Queen of the Surface Streets”- DeVotchKa
10. “Waiting Room” – Fugazi
11. “Strange” – Wire
12. “TOP SECRET MAN” – Plastics
13. “Mental Hopscotch” – Missing Persons
14. “Alex Chilton” – The Replacements