friday random elevenish: “T-Rex was worth at least 84.5%” edition
So yeah, still sick. Even worse than last time I posted something, though I do have some good meds for the symptoms.
That said, it’s not been a terrible week, for being on the road. I even checked my work email thisThursday morning to clear out the automated cruft, and found that things are moving along (relatively) swimmingly in my absence; my guys are getting the job done, and my boss is respecting my boundaries in ways he didn’t when he was gone for this back in June and I was handling all his crap.
Our big briefing for the latest exercise (thankfully, not my voice, which is basically *gone* right now) went really well – we’re playing contractors and building unmanned vehicles in a videogame piece of modeling and simulation software to meet federal requirements, and ours, dubbed the T-REX (for reasons), kicked ass and took names all over the head-to-head run-off, and our actual brief went really well, not spawning any pointed questions from the instructors, and getting us several “good job!” mentions; certainly enough for 84.5%, at any rate.
Even if I weren’t sick, I’m still not heading home this weekend; rather than burn the miles (and mileage reimbursement), I’m going to lie back and recover, maybe take in a movie or something; feels like that’s about all I can manage anyway. Being sick while on mentally-engaging business travel really sucks, let me tell you.
Anyway, here’s some music that worked as the background for my studying for Friday’s second “Celebration of Knowledge”; plenty of classic rock, bounded by swimming nouns on either end. Why not:
- “Cameos” – Swimming Trees
- “Herjazz” – Huggy Bear
- “Holding Pattern” – Real Estate
- “Carry on my Wayward Son” – Kansas
- “Rebel Girl” – Bikini Kill
- “Under Pressure” – Queen
- “Take On Me” – A-Ha
- “Youth Gone Wild” – Skid Row
- “Marooned” – Pink Floyd
- “Here We Come” – Sleater-Kinney
- “Raise My Rent” – David Gilmour
- “A New Day Yesterday” – Jethro Tull
- “Head Over Heels” – Tears for Fears
- “Girls, Girls, Girls” – Motley Crue
- “Tides” – Swimming Tapes
