A week. It happened.

The biggest news was the work thing where a couple policy changes and some questionable judgement (at least in the sense of making a decision without all the necessary information) has left a few of the projects I’m working in doubt in terms of funding. To be entirely fair, the underlying reason for this is the fact that we’re now almost half way through the current fiscal year and we still don’t have a federal budget, and the latest continuing resolution funding runs out in four weeks, and Congress continues in dysfunction. If things worked a bit better a few hours up I-95, management wouldn’t have to make these decisions at all. In any case, I’m likely to be spending a bit of time today talking my boss’s boss down from the ledge, as it’s too soon to write things off (because there are a few weeks of slack before the drop dead date), unless we do the shutdown thing this time, in which case we’re all screwed.

This is, in broad strokes, the story of every requirement I’ve worked this year.

Oh well. I shall manage, and probably pull this out of the trash heap in the end, but all these factors out of my control are getting rather tiresome.

But hey, I’ve got most of four songs written for fawm, and a couple of them maybe feel like keepers. We’ll see. Many of my friends are being exceedingly productive (embarrassingly so), and it’s honestly pretty great to see. I’ll catch up in the end, though I’m pretty sure I need some more varied input to help generate some output. It’s going to be all rainy and stuff this weekend, so I see some quality couch time with the tv or a good book in my immediate future; hopefully that’ll spark something.

As for other people’s tunes, it’s still a lot of americana/alt-country in the algorithm, though that hour or three I left the “new rock” playlist accidentally running has dropped a couple of heavier hitters in there. Sure:

1. “All The Gold In California” – Brother Marshall and the Choir of Fire
2. “Angel From Montgomery” – Buddy Miller, Brandi Carlisle, The Lone Bellow
3. “Lost In The Wilderness” – Feeder
4. “Johnny Dear” – Kassi Valazza
5. “Willow” – Sister Sadie
6. “I Forgot To Be Your Lover” – The Black Keys
7. “Yours to Bear” – honeyhoney
8. “It Must Be Someone Else’s Fault” – Courtney Marie Andrews
9. “They Wait” – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
10. “Got Your Six” – Mary Gauthier
11. “The Way” – Mike and the Moonpies
12. “Stuck on You” – Dea Matrona
13. “El Camino” – Elizabeth Cook