riding a train at 7.42am

a very long weekend, all good. i would wager that the last two weekends have been the most satisfying, in their own ways, that i have lived in a while.

thursday was hima's last day at 'the find', where i was once employed. the finale drinks were at ugly's, which has quickly evolved into our watering hole, after not so stiff competition from ron's farmhouse.

friday during the day was sadly miserable. there are days you work and everything falls into place. days where your t-do- checklist is complete by 11am. those days make you feel good. friday, for me, was the opposite — every item on my to-do list was complicated by some unforseen, external dependency. by 3pm, i found myself ahead of schedule and actually accomplishing something. this was due not to my genius, but to the fact that the previous 2 or 3 items on my list had been skipped over for the time being. a miserable feeling, frankly.

the weekend was spent mostly moving all of my music into itunes. this sounds overdue and basic. it is. but my music collection was woefully disorganized, spread across 4 drives on my desktop. i had a nice organization. once. about two years ago. so this time around, i decided to let itunes organize it all for me and i spent the majority of the weekend making sure everything was imported correctly. learned a bit about how itunes 7 is firing. i vastly underestimated the amount of music i own and what i thought would be complete in one day has stretched into many. the upside is that i will have all my tunes in one place, on one drive where i can actually find things.

for instance: i had forgotten how good dj andy smith's mix cd is. composed of a few hiphop tracks and a ton of old funk, its wonderful. i was happy to refind it on saturday. right now, as i type this, tom jones' 'lookin out my window' is keeping me company. this might signal a kick of old funk and groove tracks. but there might not be better music for overcast fall days. barry white, james brown, the james gang? bring it on.