another battle was won and lost

I was going to skip posting anything today. I’ve spent the better part of the day dealing with an irritating head cold while trying to replace a fried hard drive on my work computer. I succeeded on the tech front, but the only person who can get me hooked back up to the shared network drive I need to use for my work duties is out of town until next Monday. Rather than sit around on my hands doing nothing except stifling recurring coughing jags, I went home early and crashed out while listening to Carbon Based Lifeforms’ World of Sleepers. The resulting dreams were interesting, to say the least.

I’m now wide awake, and still feeling, as a medical professional would say, “like shit.” Tomorrow has a whirlwind tour of veterinarian offices – one for our rabbit, Jack, in Wellesley at 11:30 and another for two of the outside cats in Winchester at 2:00. When it’s all over, I don’t think I’ll be able to tell where Super Lumina ends and I begin. We’ll be inseparably bonded in a man/machine gestalt by hours of the nastiest highway and surface road driving Massachusetts has to offer (outside of the Day Boulevard rotary, which is as close as one can get to The Road Warrior this side of the nuclear holocaust).

So in short, I’m feeling restless and sick, my paid work is backlogged by tech hassles, and I have a long day of driving ahead of me. At least I have my music collection to help take my mind off of things.

Generation X – Kiss Me Deadly (from Generation X, 1978) – In which a young Billy Idol and friends serve up the punk rock equivalent of a power ballad. Sure, it’s a little on the sappy side, but it really couldn’t work any other way.

The Hives – A Get Together to Tear It Apart (from Veni Vidi Vicious, 2000/2002) – Has it really been five years since this album was released in the US? Wow.