For the second time in as many weeks, my region of the country is sliding into the weekend with an allegedly significant weather event. Yesterday was rain and snow that mostly amounted to nothing but what’ll prove to be slick roads today as it’s probably not going to break above freezing all day. Tonight they’re calling for more precipitation, but the various forecasters can’t quite agree on what kind or how much.

I’m leaning toward not much, honestly – just enough to be mildly inconvenient.

“Mildly inconvenient” is actually a pretty good descriptor for the week at large. News on the national and state level has been the usual crap; work’s been quiet, though I’d rather it not be; I’ve got stuff I’ve got to get done, and it’s like pulling teeth to get straight answers out of the people who need to provide them, and the thinks I’ve gotten done have been just a bit more complicated than they need to be, but only to the point of annoyance. The rest of life’s been about the same; little impediments that are *just bothersome enough* without rising to the point of crisis.

Ennui. On we go.

I’ve accomplished just enough to maintain some kind of plodding progress. I got my bike back from the shop freshly maintained and tuned for about half the price I’d estimated, just in time to put it in storage due to weather. This week’s paycheck was nice and heavy thanks to that bonus I talked about, and I’ve gotten a couple of bills paid off, but as most of the windfall’s already spoken for, it’s just watching it flow in and out. I successfully briefed one project into funding and approval at work, onlty to have two more smaller, neglected ones dropped in my lap.

That’s the way it goes..two steps forward, one back. Over and over.

But, it’s better than the inverse, I guess.

Tunes this week? Lots of modern indie, a couple of cool covers, and some J-pop? Not a lot of stuff I’ve heard before, but that’s fine; this is Spotify’s “Discover Weekly” playlist, after all.

1. “Best Life” – Cheekface
2. “Crimson + Clover” – Pom Pom Squad
3. “Safety Dance” Angel Olsen
4. “SPORTSMEN” – Haroumi Hosono
5. “Cheers” – Faye Webster
6. “Like A Lady” – Pom Poko
7. “New Mistake” – Jellyfish
8. “Those Words” – Mattiel
9. “Don’t Do It” – Courtney Barnett Feat. Vagabon
10. “oh baby” – LCD Soundsystem
11. “Streets of Philadelphia” – Waxahatchee
12. “The Balcony” – Fruit Bats
13. “Traffic!” – Katy Kirby
14. “The Universe” – Death Valley Girls