Apart from my spending the whole week thinking it was a day later than it was, I got a heck of a lot done, at least up until Thursday. Never got the hang, etc.

Earlier in the week, they started migrating the email system at work to a different platform (the whats and whos aren’t really important), and it’s been playing havoc with getting work done as messages don’t get where they need to be. At least it didn’t hit me until Thursday, after I finished the big project for my boss where I had to classify every program in the department according to the new fancy system, which involved emailing and cold-calling all the Program Managers everywhere and picking their brains about their projects (which, as a mostly introvert, sucked).

Outside of work, once the worst of the vax #2 side effects passed, had a couple of beautiful bike rides out in the sunny 80° weather, at least until Thursday afternoon, when five miles into my after-work ride, I broke a spoke on the rear wheel, and had to walk the bike back a few miles to the car. Luckily, my local shop, Molly’s Bike Shop and Blind Dog Brewery, were able to squeeze me in between projects on their crazy busy schedule, and in the span one beer (a tasty Train Wreck NE IPA), they had my wheel fixed and sent me back on my way. I am tremendously grateful; the service, the beer, and the friendly dogs there are always top notch.

After wrapping up my bike fix and a couple of errands, I returned home to tackle a last-minute recording job for the new Humdingers record, and after knocking out four solid B+ takes for the song, in the middle of what was looking like an A+, the cable jack on the Jazz bass crapped out…again (and I also clicked the wrong button and lost the good two minutes…). Hopefully we’ll be able to salvage something from what I did get done; at least the bum notes are in different places on all of them. Looks like this weekend is going to involve some quality time with the soldering iron, alas.

So, yeah, I guess none of these breakdowns were anything I couldn’t recover from, but when I had a second beer last evening while winding down, I drank it out of the can instead of pouring into a glass.

Just in case.

So, tunes. Spotify seems to think it’s 1991; grungy stuff with a few doses of obvious classic rock. Not the worst (and I was totally banging my head a bit to #7 this morning):

1. “Jenny Says” – Cowboy Mouth
2. “Lay Down” – Priestess
3. “Layla” – Derek & The Dominos
4. “Monster Magnet” – Negasonic Teenage Warhead
5. “King of the Road” – Fu Manchu
6. “What’s Inside A Girl” – Daughters
7. “Mother” – Danzig
8. “Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” – The Rolling Stones
9. “King Rat” – Modest Mouse
10. “Electric to Inept” – Madde
11. “Nearly Lost You” – Screaming Trees
12. “Train Kept a Rollin'” – Aerosmith
13. “At Night In Dreams” – White Denim