This weekend involved lots of different adventures; starting with hauling us and our friends Ted and Jennyfer out to SBC to catch the oldest playing Titania, Queen of the Fairies in the campus production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was pretty great, actually. Spending the evening with our friends was fun, and we did a bit of pre-gaming with dinner and drinks at Loose Shoe Brewing. Didn’t get home until around 1am, but that’s what ya do.

We spent most of Saturday hanging out with friends (Ted and Jennyfer, plus Elizabeth and Abby and KT and Kevin etc) at the Virginia Highland Games/Richmond Celtic Festival, watching big burly guys in kilts throw big heavy pieces of wood around, listening to the Fighting Jamesons, drinking black and tans, and eating haggis. It was actually nice to just hang around and enjoy the festival; usually the girls are dancing both days (their performance Sunday got rained out), so it’s lots of busy. We just hung out, enjoying the company, and relaxing. After we got sick of the hotter-than-expected weather, we decamped to Castleburg for a final beer and more pleasant company.

Sunday, given the weather and the aforementioned cancellation, was pretty quiet. I made some decent lasagna incorporating some wonderfully fragrant fresh basil I picked up at the farmer’s market on Saturday, and we sat around eating that, drinking wine, and watching movies on Netflix. Not a terrible way to spend a rainy Sunday.

Oh, I kept pace with what my other friends were doing; both the memorial service for my friend’s wife in NC, and a bunch of my other friends and musical compatriots up in Columbus for Ohio Valley Filk Fest and the Pegasus Awards. The Blibbering Humdingers did not win in our nominated category of “Best Performers” (that went to Playing Rapunzel, who I’m not familiar with, but I’m sure they’re worthy), but it appears all present enjoyed themselves if the videos and commentary on social media are to be believed, and I’m willing to do so.

This week’s already off to a bang, with my spending my afternoon ripping into the finance branch at work for being ridiculously bureaucratic so as to make Terry Gilliam’s Brazil seem reasonable, and then walking off my anger over three miles at the park after leaving. I then spent the rest of the afternoon knocking out some bass tracks for my friend Jonah’s new record, which I expect I’ll be banging on the rest of the week, although I have some time, and I’m expecting the demo copy of my CD to arrive in the mail sometime in the next couple of days, which I’m sure will suggest some tweaks and changes to improve the final product before I order the initial stock.

Anyway, hoping the week involves more of the fun enjoying beers with friends and making music stuff and less the passive-agressive-shifting-to-straight-up-active-agressive emails and phone calls stuff. We’ll see.