So, returning to the indifferent embrace of the bureaucracy this week eventually sorted itself out, after a rough day or two to start. By the time you’re reading this, my inbox is completely tended, the groove is starting to get re-established, and I’ve already put a few presumptive public employees in their place for not knowing their role.

It’s kind of what I do.

Honestly, not much else in my corner of the universe this week, apart from forty miles or so on the newly tuned-up road bike and finishing off a novel and moving on to devouring an urban fantasy short story collection.

Thursday evening, though, I dropped the lovely spouse and the youngest off at the airport so they can take a long weekend in Massachussetts spending time with some dear friends of the family that come to us, no surprise, from the con music scene, though this trip is really at the insistence of the kids, who’ve known each other since toddlerhood, and have maintained a bi-coastal friendship for most of the last decade while the other family were living in California.

They’re going to spend some quality time geeking out together and catching up, and it’s honestly long overdue. I hope they have a great time, especially since it’s the kid’ first time on an airplane, and I think she’s looking forward to the whole experience.

My weekend, however, will be much less exciting – grocery shopping, laundry, maybe a bike ride, and keeping the older spawn in line and adulting.

And, I’ll probably listen to some music like the stuff below (as well as the USB drive full of tunes by my buddy Keith Brinegar I picked up at ConGregate the other weekend), which just comes out of the algorithms on Spotify, but has some pretty bangin’ tunes that slap (as the kids say) this week, particularly forgotten favorites likes #2 and the beautiful weirdness at #10:

1. “Wicked Mind” – Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs
2. “Rock ‘n’ Roll Lifestyle” – CAKE
3. “Leash Called Love” – The Sugarcubes
4. “Welcome To The Church Of Rock And Roll” – Foxy Shazam
5. “Bulletproof” – Samantha Fish
6. “Funnel of Love” – The Young Veins
7. “Mr. Soul” – Neil Young
8. “Dark Days” – Tim Heidecker
9. “Is This Music?” – Teenage Fanclub
10. “Joni: LA’s No. 1 Health Goth” -illuminati hotties
11. “Human Crime” – Pixies
12. “Day Tripper” – YELLO MAGIC ORCHESTRA
13. “I’m The Sky” – Norma Tanega
14. “Open My Eyes” – Nazz
15. “Soundcheck” – Pom Pom Squad

….and don’t call me Shirley!