friday random elevenish – “trying to be my best self” edition
It has been, shall we say, not my best week.
Coming off of some very difficult stuff at work*, the stress and anxiety of Father’s Day (yeah, it hits me hard), adjusting to the kids being home from school, some weird weather, and frankly, outrage fatigue from the news cycle this week, I have not been my best. I’m trying to do better.
My best times this week were all on the trail; especially Wednesday’s twenty on the Virginia Capital Trail. ‘Twas relaxing, rejuvenating, and had the favor of the gods, as the rain didn’t start until the moment I finished racking the bike on the car after finishing. It also seemed like I was going downhill both ways, which was weird, but I’ll take it.
I’m hoping the weekend provides some relief; we’ll see. The big girls are heading out for a dance competition on the shore of the Great Lakes this weekend; it was going to be all the girls, though the youngest started running a fever last night. We’ll see how that impacts male bonding time (we still might get out to see Deadpool 2, I dunno). Sick kids are tough, though. Anyway, the weather looks like hell this week, so I’m probably just going to accept that the biking isn’t happening and pick up again on Monday.
As for this week’s playlist, I like it; equal parts 80s pop and modern indie. Works for me.
- “Summer of ’69” – Bryan Adams
- “Young Presidents” – Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
- “Santonian Shores” – Eluveitie
- “Ophelia” – The Lumineers
- “Mythological Beauty” – Big Thief
- “Killer Queen” – Queen
- “Phantom Limb”- The Shins
- “Jesse’s Girl” – Rick Springfield
- “Dangerous Veils” – Jethro Tull
- “Home” – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes
- “I Wanna Go Back” – Eddie Money
- “Dickie’s Such and Asshole (live)” – Frank Zappa
Oh, and finally, since Pokemon Go rolled out the friends/trading business finally, my trainer code is 2766 8892 1979; if you’re playing, let’s be friends.
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*- management of resources, belligerent developers, the boss out in training when I really need some input, contracting woes, one really long day to support meetings, some senior folks in the department dangling money in front of me to get projects I want done done, though knowing that other people in the program office are going to stonewall me because my successes point out their deficiencies, and hearing the words “under investigation” whispered about an unrelated program; which doesn’t surprise me in the least, but is going to get in my way of getting stuff done. I really need to get out of here…
