If you’re reading this Friday morning (as I expect you probably are), I’m probably in the midst of my next leg of the Capital Quarantine Challenge, and not sitting at my computer after loading up everyone’s inboxes first thing, because it’s the federal bank holiday for Independence Day. My plan as it stands is to knock out the section from the starting line near Jamestown to the first big parking trailhead at Chickahominy Riverfront Park. Depending on timing, Billsburg Brewery is like three blocks from the trailhead, which could be a bonus to celebrate my accomplishment. With that stretch, I’ll have largely finished off the stuff I can do on my without borrowing my lovely spouse to drop me and pick me up at various mile markers (having done the stretch from the Richmond flood wall out to marker 45 on Tuesday afternoon). We’ve got tentative plans to knock out one of those sections on Saturday afternoon, which should have me covered for 35 or so of the 51.7 miles of the trail, and have me on track to earn my t-shirt by next weekend, if not before.

As for the rest of the weekend, I’m largely going to avoid celebrating Indpendence Day itself, because gatherings in the age of the ‘rona, and, to be honest, I don’t trust that there isn’t going to be some weird shit going down (Stonewall came down in the city yesterday, and I’m not betting against some acting out in protest here in Amanda Chase-land) in the area.

This is, for good or for (mostly) ill, the world we live in right now, and we have to adjust to what makes sense. Tentative plans are to do our thing, watch Hamilton on Disney+ with some friends in a “virtual watch party”, and take care of the rest of the usual stuff. I also took Monday off, because everybody else at the office did (hell, a lot of them took off the whole last week of June), and I might as well burn some leave I’m accumulating.

Anyway, tunes. Not a bad mix; lots of rough-edged folky pop (even from the Indigo Girls at #1, as a par of them always wanted to be the Replacements anyway), some new, some not. I kinda love the crazy heavy mix on the drums on #9, which is a new one to me:

1. “Fugitive” – Indigo Girls
2. “American Music” – Violent Femmes
3. “Charlotte Anne” – Julian Cope
4. “Tuesday Morning” – The Pogues
5. “Makes No Sense At All” – Hüsker Dü
6. “Motel Room” – Kiss the Tiger
7. “Cut Your Hair” – Pavement
8. “Daddy” – Man on Man
9. “Of Pressure” – Mount Eerie
10. “Don’t Do Me Like That” – J Mascis
11. “This Is Not Who I Want To Be” – Joanna Sternberg
12. “Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)” – Love and Rockets
13. “After Those Who Mean It” – Laura Stevenson
14. “Woyaya” – Anias Mitchell, Kate Stables