Another week mostly down. Work was work, headlines were headlines, and the back hurt. Also, My lovely spouse celebrated crossed a major, hard-earned milestone (and I am very, very proud), and I learned that a dear friend from my past is no longer with us, which is seriously a bummer. I spent some time with a few friends, I mowed some grass, but mostly? it rained.

it was a mixed bag, or would have been, had my elderly cat not woken me up on Thursday morning at 4:30 am by peeing on my head (she really hates the CPAP machine). I guess that experience does kind of shove it into the negative column overall.

It was what it was. I kind of just, well, existed, and dealt with things. All we can do. I honestly don’t have that much to share that I haven’t already. It was honestly, well, enough.

Well, except for the playlist my streaming service spit out this week. It sounded, end-to-end, like the perfect soundtrack to a low-to-mid budget 80s action film, most of which would be completely appropriate for an end-of-second-act montage. I dug it so much, I ended up making it into it’s own playlist to totally hit that mark, because why the heck not?:

1. “Crazy Nights” – Loudness
2. “Road of the Gypsy” – Adrenalin
3. “Waiting For The Big One” – Femme Fatale
4. “God Blessed Video” – Alcatrazz
5. “Carry On My Wayward Son” -Yngwie J. Malmsteen
6. “Fight” – No Vacancy
7. “It’s A Long Way To The Top” – Jake E. Lee
8. “Rock You Tonight” – C.J. Snare
9. “I Wish I Had A Girl Who Walked Like That” – Henry Lee Summer
10. “Sunset Strip” – Roger Waters
11. “Iron Eagle (Never Say Die)” – King Kobra
12. “So You Ran” – Orion The Hunter
13. “Swords and Tequila” – Riot