Not a lot of engagement with the world, online or otherwise that hasn’t had to do with work these last two weeks. That can happen when you get assigned a seriously time-sensitive and poorly-documented requirement that somebody just dropped and abandoned four or five months ago, and needs to be solved now or the organization gets hit with a few million in unnecessary fees for letting coverage lapse.

That’s about all I did or thought about for the last two weeks. I put it to bed, just like I was supposed to, but I wasn’t enjoying life very much.

I mean, I’d just nailed the 51.7 mile Cap2Cap a couple weekends ago, beating my best time by more than twenty minutes (a light road bike will help there), and then life becomes nothing but bureaucracy for a couple of weeks, apart from catching the soccer match with some friends last Saturday evening.

It really ate into my rehearsal time, because I have a gig next week, and since my local watering hole is paying me, I need to sound good. Luckily, the weather’s looking a bit crap this weekend, so I’ll have some time.

As for that show:

Thursday Music and Fun at The Kilt, featuring me playing three sets of thereabouts of my original music peppered in with a few interesting cover tunes. Why not come on out, have a beverage or three, make a friend and enjoy some tunes? Thursday, June 1, 6pm to 9pm, Dancing Kilt Brewery in Chester.

Speaking of tunes, here’s some that Spotify spit out. A little all over the place, but I’m okay with that:

1. “Darlin'” – Freedy Johnston, Aimee Mann
2. “Sister Starling” – Aoife O’Donovan
3. “Skating Away On The Thin Ice of the New Day” – Jethro Tull
4. “Lotta Love” – Juliana Hatfield
5. “Think About Your Troubles” – Harry Nilsson
6. “Got Weird” – dodie
7. “The Storm” – Dori Freeman
8. “Light of Day” – Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
9. “The Boy Wonders” – Aztec Camera
10. “Ladykillers” – Lush
11. “Ants In The Kitchen” – Masters of Reality
12. “Eye Of The Hurricane” – David Wilcox
13. “All The Lilacs In Ohio” – John Hiatt & Jerry Douglas