On Wednesday, the Mazda3 Time Machine required a state inspection and routine maintenance. That meant a morning spent in the dealership watching mindless programs on the waiting area’s TV—and, too, doom scrolling through social media. After near three hours, the news came: One tire needed replacement. But there was a hitch: A tire wasn’t in stock. Could I come back the next day? (They needed to bring it in from one of their other locations.) So I got to play the waiting game for a second time—same mindless TV, same social-media nonsense. Tack on a few errands and, well, there went the hours I usually devote to this blog.
My plan at week’s start was to spotlight Brown Horse’s All the Right Weaknesses, which was released today, on Thursday and then new releases from Eyed Jay and j.o.y.s today and tomorrow, as all three captured my ears a while back, take Sunday off, and then barrel through a few exceptional releases slated for next Friday in the first half of next week, then revisit an old favorite, Maria McKee, on Wednesday or Thursday. But hours wasted at the car dealership alongside other distractions, most notably the idiot-in-chief’s decimation of the stock market, and I’m not much in the mood to write—an oddity, for sure. As a result, I’m reconfiguring my schedule: Brown Horse tomorrow or Sunday, and then the rest in order following that.
Anyway, to answer the Daily Prompt question, the job I would do for free is what I’ve been doing for the past decade-plus: spotlighting new and old music. It’s a labor of love, not a moneymaker.
The Old Grey Cat 