friday random elevenish: “sunseeking” edition
Another week in the can, and for once, it mostly resembled a regular 40 hour week, apart from the fact that I took Tuesday off to do some doc appointments and trek out to Bear Creek Lake State Park. With the business cases mostly in the can, we’re prepping for the big in-process review with the CIO later this month, which mostly has me in an advisory role assisting all the program managers in effectively documenting their programs. That’s what I get for being the expert, I guess.
Otherwise, I wrote a couple of middling songs over at fawm, getting me five songs of fourteen down, though I stil have to demo a couple of them. I’m continuing to maintain my creativity, though nothing is screaming “new hit” just yet.
The real news of the week, though, is the fact that the climate here in the RVA has been flirting with spring again, and I spent a couple of 70° afternoons on the bike getting my first miles on the VCT of 2023 under me, which was nice. I’m not in serious fighting shape yet, but I’m getting my legs back more quickly than I’d normally expect; if my sinuses and the skies hold out, I’ll maybe get some more in today before the weekend’s predicted rain. We’ll see.
Oh, that trip to Bear Creek Lake was a nice diversion with a very pretty lake and some wonderful, well marked and maintained trails, and ticked off another notch on my Trail Quest adventure…
Have I mentioned that? I know it’s over there to the left…One of my gifts to myself this year was an annual pass all of the Commonwealth’s state parks; mostly to avoid paying the parking fee when I go riding at Pocahontas down the road, but as it gets me into all of them, I’m going to try to get to all of them this year, and earn some park swag for hitting some milestones on the way. I’ve got three down thus far, but there are a bunch more within an hour’s drive or so that I’ll hit before making some overnight camp weekends come summer for the more far-flung ones come summer. Stay tuned.
Anyway, this weekend looks like rain, so I might not get out much, but getting out in the sun a couple of nice days this week has already done wonders for my disposition, which is extremely helpful given the issues some of the other members of this household are dealing with. Also, there’s some household involvement in a community theater production that’ll keep some of us busy, even if the role is small.
As for tunes this week, a bit all over the place, but there at #4 is a recording of that performance from the 2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony where Prince tears the roof off the place, which I’ll never not love:
- “Old Enough” – The Raconteurs
- A Jazzy Song with a Kanji title, but with “Lucky” in the chorus from the Lupin III sountrack
- “Train from Kansas City” – Neko Case
- “While My Guitar Gently Weeps (live)” – Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison, Prince
- “Be Better At Listening” – Pompamoose
- “Day Tripper” – Yellow Magic Orchestra
- “Slippery People (live)” – Mavis Staples, Win Butler, Regine Chassagne
- “Breathless on DVD” – Antarctico Vespucci
- “The Rattle” – Leponds
- “Drivin’ on 9” – The Breeders
- “House on Fire” – Slam Bamboo
- “Silver Line” – Sheer Mag
- “Rockstar” – Momma
- “White Reaper” – Pages
