Thursday miscellanea #578

My absurdly talented friend Alex Hendrix has a new song coming out two weeks from tomorrow, and it’s brilliant. Please purchase it when it is released, as I shall.
We started back in-person attendance at church, with precautions. I’m so glad. I hope this is it.
I’m enjoying Bach’s Goldberg Variations this week, which entered my consciousness when I searched for the classical music Hannibal Lecter was listening to in the cage in Memphis.
Our show Waking the Dead has been pretty solid, but it’s committed a serious sin (for a mystery). All of these episodes are two-parters, and the actual content is most of two hours. Twice now, we’ve gotten two-thirds or so of the narrative—so, closing on halfway through the second part—and a ton of new information gets dumped into the story. And I don’t mean a twist or two, I mean a whole bunch of stuff you couldn’t have possibly guessed comes in out of nowhere. It happened last night, and I looked at Lea and said “they might as well blame it on extraterrestrials.” Sheesh. You can’t do that in this sort of show.
I would rather not have replaced my Fitbit right now, but my new one analyzes sleep in more detail. It’s pretty cool. Turns out I’m doing as well as I thought I was, according to its sleep score. I think my sleep has finally fully accommodated my teetotalism, and abstaining from eating for at least four hours before bed was the other big piece of the puzzle.
So far they are only selling three-day passes to the Music City Grand Prix. We only want to go on Sunday—you know, race day—and one-day tickets aren’t on sale until after Memorial Day. I think I’m going to gamble rather that pony up for four three-day passes we don’t really want to use. I hope the three-day festival model wasn’t too much to bite off for the inaugural running of the event.
No freeze is forecast through March 25—as I type we just miss on Friday the 19th—but we nearly never escape this early, so don’t ink it. Plus, a late hard freeze is tough on the bugs.

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