Happy Friday, folks. ‘Tis been a week. I’ve spent a lot of it convalescing. The week started with my “front row” (that’s where they sit) analysts popping in and out due to illness; which struck me Wednesday. I woke up long enough to call in sick around 6am, then went back to bed, and woke up sometime around 1:30pm. The body tells you what it needs, right?

I’m mostly better now. I guess. However, this constant rain and gloom out there is really starting to get to me. Season Affective Disorder (or at least the “I haven’t seen the sun in a week” variant) is real. I hear that maybe on Sunday the sun will be back. Here’s to hoping.

The bits of the week not given over to work or rest have been given over to music. I had a pretty decent first “rehearsal” (wherein a bunch of us got together with instruments for the first time and attempted a couple of agreed-upon songs) with this gestating project I’ve gotten involved with. It feels good enough that something might come of it. After a few more weeks I’ll know for sure, but for now, I’m optimistic.

Tonight I’ll be doing dry runs/dress rehearsals for this weekend’s Godspell production; I’ve been having fun with this short-term commitment the last couple of weeks, but I’d be lying if I won’t be glad to put it behind me. You can only listen to “Save the People” so many times before it haunts your dreams…and it has, fighting for earworm space with, for some reason, counting Crows’ “Mr. Jones”, which, serendipitously (or not), popped up unbidden in the random Pandora ten (or so…I stopped counting when R.E.M. came up again…I really need to see what I can do to futz with Pandora’s algorithms. I really just let things spin until I’m finished writing) below:

1. “M79” – Vampire Weekend
2. “I am a Wizard” – Harry and the Potters
3. “Back in Black” – AC/DC
4. “Being With You” – that dog
5. “You Give Love A Bad Name (live)” – Bon Jovi
6. “Teenage Riot” – Sonic Youth
7. “The One I Love” – R.E.M.
8. “Mr. Jones” – Counting Crows
9. “Ophelia” – Lumineers
10. “Don’t Stop Believing” – Journey
11. “Thinking in Ways” – the Badlees
12. “Favorite Thing” – The Replacements
13. “One Love/People Get Ready” – Bob Marley
14. “Somebody to Love” – Queen
15. “Animal” – Def Leppard

Otherwise, I’ll wish any readers a pleasant weekend, filled with sun, smiles, and other pleasant alliterative things.

Oh yeah, The Blibbering Humdingers released another album into the wild this week; one of our live sets from Dragon*Con last year. Give it a listen if you’ve got the time (and buy it for eight bucks if you’ve got the knuts and sickles!)