As I tap this out, I can say that it’s been a really uneventful week, following a pre-determined pattern.

Wake. Paperwork. Scan Headlines. Reheat leftovers. Read. Pass out. Repeat.

Part of this is because I’m still not feeling great; likely lingering con crud, but who knows, given what the kids bring home, and what I might have run into this weekend on Ted’s birthday march. I’m 99% confident it’s not coronavirus, because I’ve only had IPAs this week. Ba Dum Tish.

Still, the energy level’s been low, and depression’s creeping in, probably because the sun hasn’t really shown itself around here since Monday. I got some decent hikes along the river in earlier in the week, but by Wednesday, it was too damned cold. On some level, I think I expected this, as Sunday night I made a huge pot of red beans and rice that I’ve been working through as lunch (and occasionally dinner) all week. It’s been delicious, though kind of boring. However, it makes for easy, healthy calories to keep the body filling out forms to earn my wage while I’m in this funk.

While all this is going on, my subconsciousness is working overtime chewing on and rehashing existential concepts and attitudes – getting all philosophical and shit, sometimes annoyingly so. Not complaining; I think I might have come to some clarity on some things, but I can’t entirely trust that the brain is operating at peak efficiency or optimisticity. We shall see.

The weekend’s looking pretty quiet – I think I’m going to go support one of my open mic’ers, killer songwriter Keely Burn, play acoustic Sunday at The Castle’, but otherwise, nothing specific on the agenda. I’m likely to start thinking about FAWM, as that project ideally starts on Saturday.

This works for me.

Anyway, some tunes. As indicated by this post’s title, I’m identifying quite a lot with #5 on this list, but there’s some neat pop/punk/alternative/ska/etc going on here, and I’m kinda digging it:

1. “Give It to the Soft Boys” – The Soft Boys
2. “Battle Scar” – Max Webster
3. “Sunless Saturday” – Fishbone
4. I’se the B’y” – Great Big Sea
5. “Birth, School, Work, Death” – The Godfathers
6. “Universal Heart-Beat” – Juliana Hatfield
7. “Apollo 9” – Adam Ant
8. “Here for the Beer” – The Sloppy Boys
9. “Story of My Life” – Social Distortion
10. “Everything” – The Dollyrots
11. “Working In A Coal Mine” – DEVO
12. “Son of A Gun” – The Vaselines
13. “Somebody to Shove” – Soul Asylum