So yes, I was *on* all week, due to the off-site (at my former office a little north of here) program management workshop Tuesday through Thursday, which involved backing up my boss’s never-ending energy with technical expertise and rapid-fire abilities to yank obscure documentation out of the aether at her word.

Plus, I had to wear nice pants and stuff.

I’m not really complaining, you should know…we had folks in from all over the country, some of whom I’ve only met over MS Teams conference, even if we work closely together pretty much every day. It was nice to see them in person (and share a drink or three with them at the Kilt after work one day), and we got a ton of work done.

Also, it was kind of exhausting, because I’m used to working by myself at my little corner office surrounded by my sound equipment and my lovely spouse’s craft space. I got to work at home again today, Friday, except for about two hours when I had to go down to the newly-christened Fort Gregg-Adams to get my software phone configured on the laptop they’re going to replace next week (and I’ll have to re-set it up all over again).

Still, I got the stuff done I needed done and was a good steward of taxpayer dollars, as I’m supposed to be.

So that was my week, apart from forgetting every other day to post a photo to my “Life Is Good” challenge on the FriendFace, but I’m catching up as we go. Sorry Micheala!

But that was the week. We’re really looking at the weekend.

Tomorrow, Saturday, I’m doing the Cap2Cap half-century ride, which I do every year this weekend now, because biking is what I do. Shockoe Bottom in Richmond to the Jamestown Settlement. Stone Brewing to Billsburg. I’m gonna do it.

Not going to commit to the hundred-plus mile out-and-back this year, because I don’t think I’m up to it…yet. Might do it before the summer’s out, though. we’ll see. But I look forward to riding it with a few hundred of my fellow crazy cyclists, because it’s a nice check on the achievement list, and it proves, to me, anyway, that I’m in the best shape of my life at almost 49 years old.

That’s really the whole weekend right there; I’m not committing to anything else apart from finishing the Sirius XM five-hour long 35th anniversary track-by-track Bon Jovi New Jersey record retrospective*.

Otherwise, I’m going to probably do some laundry, drink a couple of beers, and maybe watch some of The Electric Mayhem…

But here’s the tunes, of course. My Senator’s favorite band (and one of mine) at #3, and a killer late 80s jam from a killer late 80s record that I forget is one of my favorites until it pops up on my playlist:

1. “We’re Not Gonna Take It” – Twisted Sister
2. “Mr. Sellack” – The Roaches
3. “Waitress In The Sky” – The Replacements
4. “Hourglass” – Squeeze
5. “Watermelon” – John + Jane Q. Public
6. “A Little Help From My Friends” – Willie Nelson
7. “Love Like We Do” – Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
8. “Pumpkin Cowboy” – Brian David Gilbert
9. “Counting Down The Hours” – Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
10. “Mother Earth” – Emitt Rhodes
11. “freequent letdown” – illuminati hotties

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* – Dammit, I wore that record out in high school, and it came out thirty-five years ago. Damn, I’m old.