Few particularly noteworthy accomplishments to report this week. Last weekend? Sure. All those previously mentioned events went off without a hitch, and on Sunday I did a two-fer on state parks, hitting York River and Machicomico, hiking a little over eleven miles between them, and ticking off the next milestone on the Trail Quest business.

This week, though? Meh. Yes, I was and continue to be the “acting” supervisor for the division this week as my boss is out, though thankfully the folks I’m nominally in charge of are all very competent and busy doing their own things, and most of the staff meeting rigmarole has been cleared ahead of time.

This is good, because I got whacked hard by six-months-later Covid Fog, which is apparently a thing; I’m not sure I’m a true “long-hauler,” but I seriously struggled with focus on anything complicated for Tuesday and Wednesday, just like when I was coming out of the infection. Thankfully, I was much better Thursday, and got a lot of the work planning and organization done that I needed, and apparently some of my unconscious brain cycles were working on the problems I needed to solve even when I was unable to actively consider them effectively.

Also Thursday, it hit around 85° here in the RVA, and I wasn’t going to pass that up, knocking out a really nice 21 mile ride on the VCT. If nothing else, I’m getting my summer bike stamina back much more quickly this year than last year, which is nice.

Hoping for a quiet weekend; fewer people in the house, as the lovely spouse and the eldest are heading a few states south for a wedding, and the other two (apart from running the youngest to an appointment or two) are largely self-sufficient. I’m going to hopefully chill, maybe do the taxes, and ideally hit another park to work toward the next milestone.

Tunes this week? Discover Weekly is giving me a decent mix of modern indie and classic punk and pop, plus this Orville Peck character I’ve heard about but never really looked into – after listening to #3, I think I might have to – it’s got a neat outlaw-country-by-way-of-drone/shoegaze vibe I’m digging. Also? Double Oysters at #2 and #10:

1. “Not Gonna Take Me” – Bailen
2. “Vitamin D” – Pearl & The Oysters
3. “Bronco” – Orville Peck
4. “Jet (2010 remaster)” – Wings
5. “It’s You” – The Millenium
6. “Same Days” – J. Roddy Walston & The Business
7. “Diamonds” – Mac Saturn
8. “My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg): The Ramones
9. “True Trans Soul Rebel” – Against Me!
10. “Burnin’ For You” – Blue Oyster Cult
11. “Queen Bitch (live at BBC)” – David Bowie & The Spiders from Mars
12. “Never Get Ahead” – Bobby Conn
13. “Stranger on the Town” – The Damned
14. “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)” – Billy Joel
15. “Crossbow” – Tamar Aphek