CBS Sunday Morning Power Rankings

Random Introductory Topic(s) It's a busy spring. I wasn't able to post last week because of Easter. I actually also took an extra day off work, but that was done with the express intent of cleaning my house. It was long overdue. The day after Easter was cold and rainy and just perfect for vacuuming and scrubbing counters and floors. Then I had to go to St. Louis for work. It was a mildly pointless trip, but on the drive I listened to the entirety of The Trojan Horse Affair podcast. It was pretty interesting as these sorts of things go. Expecting some kind of neat resolution at the end was a bridge to far, which I guess is the moral of the story. Or a moral of the story. If you can call that a moral. Am I using the word moral too much? Moral. Then stuff sort of hit the fan at work. It sucks when you're the only person who can fix something. I've begging them to have some redundancy built in to the system. Basically, if I had been hit by a truck last week, somebody somew

 Random Introductory Topic I could not begin to tell you how excited 2004-me would have been for for September 1, 2022. In fact, 2004 me did see both Spoon and Interpol live at the once venerable Newport, KY venue the Southgate House. Alas, what was once the Southgate House is now the Thompson House , and despite claims to the contrary, they no longer seem all that interested in putting on live music event. The spiritual successor, the Southgate House Revival , tries its darndest, but does not draw the acts the Southgate House could in its heyday. It seems to be good for at least one E6 show a year though, so that's something. Two things srike 2022-me about the situation. First, I could never be as excited as 2004-me would have been about this. I guess that's part of growing older. Two generations of hipsters have made of Boomers still shoveling out cash to go see Rolling Stones gigs, although I don't think you could classify Arena shows as gigs. Is it some sense subconsc

If you're a regular reader of the CBS SUNDAY MORNING POWER RANKINGS (You aren't. I have the statistics to prove it. I'm just tossing a cliché out as a stylistic device.), you are aware I've essentially gone silent for over about a month. Nothing's wrong. I've half consciously/was half forced to rejigger priorities recently and since this isn't something I get paid to do, the POWER RANKINGS took the hit. I enjoy writing and get something out of it. Regardless of whether anyone is reading, I would like to continue exercising the muscle in one form or another. However, continuing to write several thousand words each week in a blog that is more for my own amusement over anyone else's is unsustainable. When it gets to a point where I have to chose whether or not to continue doing this over other things I enjoy and may have been neglecting (or getting sleep), I have to question the wisdom of how I am going about things. Anyway, I'd like to continue, but