friday random elevenish: “developing a routine again…maybe?” edition
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 are handled. I had a couple of long days early in the week, but that’s par for the course, and will just make my Friday a bit shorter, which I’m not going to argue with.
We were productive enough with the workshop that I got to spend all of Thursday (and likely most of my short Friday) addressing the training requirements that I’ve been way too busy to deal with over most of the last two years. I need to log 80 hours of training every two years- usually that’s easy – find a two-week class somewhere. But, when we’re so busy trying to change the culture and everybody’s depending on me to clean up messes, that kind of falls by the wayside (and I’m not the only one in this situation). But, I’ve found a whole series of Department-provided online courses that deal with the crossroads of acquisition and budget execution, which is the world I seem to find myself in these days, so it’s all appropriate.
Otherwise, life’s been, well, sorta normal, I guess. I work (even if they’re long days…), then I’ve gotten out for a couple of decent hikes and bike rides, and a couple of instances of “meeting friends for a drink,” and read a couple of books. Not bad.
Life might be looking like it’s normal again. At least until Congress decides to mess things up again here in a couple of weeks. I really don’t want to have to bring this song back again…
In any case, here are some tunes. I started with my spotify weekly discovery, then shifted to bandcamp, which is full of my friends, and I’m not complaining…
- “Earthquakes and Sharks” – Brandtson
- “Moved Along” – wilt
- “if I were a fish (featuring Olivia Barton)” – corook
- “Juliette” – Hollerado
- “Where Did The Gremlins Go?” – Nick Lutsko
- “High Tide Rising” – Fox
- “Shades of Gray” – Mikey Mason
- “Imposter” – The Doubleclicks
- “The Walmart Song (ft. Metricula)” – Jeff Whitmire
- “Come Down Love” – Keely Burn
- “Whiskey in the Jawa” – The Faithful Sidekicks
- “Firebrand” – Leslie Hudson
- “EPMH” – D.J. McGuire
- “The Saddest Noise, The Sweetest Noise” – Valentine Wolfe
