I got on my bike for the first time in a week yesterday; just a short hop of around eight miles, because I’ve not been feeling particularly great lately. It was also the first non-rainy day in most of a week.

If it wasn’t for the rain, which has been kicking up all kinds of different pollen and mold to tweak my allergies, I’d seriously be trying to decide if I didn’t feel good because I hadn’t biked, or didnt’ bike because I didn’t feel good. As it stands, I’ve only been entertaining the conundrum on an informal basis.

I’ve been making tons of great progress at work, which I guess is something. Successful data transmission tests, successfully getting the first of my FY22 requirements approved and in the queue for purchase, and pulled my boss’s ass out of the fire by chasing down some obscure answers he was on the hook for that he forgot about until the last minute.

But by the time I got that stuff done, I’d pretty much blown through my spoon inventory for the day, wrapping stuff up early after playing a few turns of Civ6 or reading the latest adventures of Murderbot. I did, however, manage to replace the dead garbage disposal on Sunday afternoon, so there’s one less broken thing. I’ll take the wins where I can.

Nothing big for me this weekend; just some usual life stuff. There’s a “house filk” a few hours down the road in SC this weekend with a bunch of friends, but the drive-to-music time ratio is a bit much for me right now. Folks have said they’ll play a few of my tunes in my absence so I’ll be there in spirit at least. Also, unless the world ends in the next couple of weeks, there’s another road trip soon in the offing.

Anyway, music outta the little black box. Skewing a bit older again this week, but different degrees of old, swinging from 70s AOR jams to forgotten wails from the waning days of hair metal in the early 90s A neat, mostly-forgotten gem at #2, and one of my favorite overblown classic rock sci-fi epics at #9. Incidentally, it might just be the time of the morning, but for some reason, I was really digging the clean electric guitar tone on #3, a song I haven’t thought about in several decades:

1. “Eyes of a Stranger” – The Payolas
2. “Rock ‘n’ Roll Lifestyle” – Cake
3. “Lawyers in Love” – Jackson Browne
4. “Little Suzi” – Tesla
5. “Jailbird” – Primal Scream
6. “Sign of the Gypsy Queen” – April Wine
7. “My Sharona” – The Knack
8. “But Anyway” – Blues Traveler
9. “Children of the Sun” – Billy Thorpe
10. “Dreaming” – Blondie
11. “Fight The Good Fight” – Triumph
12. “Everything About You” – Ugly Kid Joe