friday random elevenish: “annual assessment time” edition
The previous week was, for the most part uneventful apart from some periodic occurrences hitting their intervals. Got a bunch of work stuff done, including actually using my B.S. in Education(!); prepping a lesson plan and teaching a class on certain bureaucratic processes I’ve managed to become the expert on. I also had my annual salary appraisal thing (the result of my efforts described in the above gif a few months back), which, overall, went pretty well; the boss said nice things about me, and while I’ve topped out my particular pay band/salary lane or whatever they’re calling it, this year’s federal pay bump worked out pretty well for me, and I’ve got a nice lump-sum performance bonus coming that’ll help me pay a few bills, throw my spouse a nice birthday party next weekend, and get a jump on replacing the venerable workhorse laptop I realized I’ve been using for ten years(!) without issue, except that I wanted to play Balder’s Gate 3 and it just wasn’t up to it.
Apart from that, I got the 25,000 mile service done on my car, saw some good blood pressure results from the recent med changes, and didn’t get sick like the rest of my family was over the last week.
I’ve got a whole lot of nothing on this weekend; I expect there’ll be some more party planning and house cleaning, but not a lot of outside time, thanks to the rain, wind, and the weird 70° temperatures we’ve having this week, after I was walking through snow on Sunday.
Climate change is real, though usually not this rapidly.
Today’s Spotify-algorithm driven playlist is still full of americana and modern alternative country and blues, which shows the influence of the Jason Isbell deep dive (Damn, The Nashville Sound is a great record). I’ll take it, of course, though I probably need to work in some greater variety to seriously shake things up. Time to set the kid loose on my account again, I guess:
- “F*ck with Sad Girls” – Bonnie Whitmore
- “I Gotta Go” – Robert Earl Keen
- “Soap Box” – Brett Cobb, Nikki Lane
- “Leaving Time” – Patterson Hood
- “Brady” – Backyard Tractor Fire
- “In The Mornin'” – Emily Nenni
- “You Got Me” – William Prince
- “Home On The Road” – Taylor Raye
- “Bourbon Hound” – Della Mae, Molly Tuttle, Avril Smith
- “Plastic Jesus” – The Local Honeys
- “South Gotta Change” – Adia Victoria
- “Walk Through Fire” – Yola
- “Postcard From Mexico” – Keiran Kane, Kevin Welch, Fats Kaplan
