I’m honestly not sure why, though I spent a good bit of this week feeling like I was on the edge of sick. Exhausted, hot/cold flashes, headaches, and all that good stuff. I continued to plow through my week nonetheless, because there’s stuff that had to be done, including some extra running about, as until yesterday afternoon, we were a car down, the little yellow one being in the shop for transmission work, which was it’s own kind of stress, though the metaphor possibilities about getting my own ass in gear are difficult to resist, so maybe I do know why I wasn’t feeling well after all.

The spouse and the eldest, upon returning from that wedding the other weekend, had noticed some noises/weird behavior in shifting. The car’s at the point where age and somewhat sloppy shifting by the youth might have us in clutch replacement territory, so we had it looked at, and it wasn’t the clutch, so it went into “drop the tranny and find out what’s up” territory, which is usually not a good region to find oneself in.

Thankfully, the replacement of a few bearings and internal bits got things back to where they should be, and we didn’t need a new one, so I actually got to keep most of my tax refund, and my savings and home improvement plans for later this year remain at least mostly on track, though I spent most of the last week seriously stressing about it.

But that’s adulting. I get it.

I honestly don’t know what this weekend holds, apart from meeting some friends for dinner to celebrate a birthday this evening, and likely working through some Humdingers tunes, because we’ve still got that gig in two weeks, even if S&K have been dealing with some extra crap of their own.

As for tunes, I can definitely tell that my youngest has been playing DJ on some car rides using my spotify profile lately, because apart from #1 and #4 being definite “me” territory, the rest (particularly #8 and all the other stuff that sounds like it) is all her:

1. “Montana” – Frank Zappa
2. “Lagoon” – Horsey
3. “Astronaut” – Future Crib
4. “I Don’t Remember” – Peter Gabriel
5. “Hey Peabrain! U Levitate?” – Junie & TheHutFriends
6. “Neon God” – KAYE
7. “Everything Is Bullshit” – Particle Kid
8. “The First Step” – Will Wood & The Tapeworms
9. “Malmo” – Mook
10. “Edna” – Henry Hall
11. “Kick Rocks” – And The Kids
12. “666” – jeremy messersmith
13. “Somethin in the Moon” – Geno Samuel
14. “Risk” – Mega Mango
15. “White Whale” – Shadow Academy