Or at least what counts for wacky in my world. I realize my life is pretty calm compared to some of the rest of you.

• I ran 2 miles this morning. And actually ran the whole thing, didn’t walk at all. My time was 19:14, which isn’t awesome, but is tolerable. I’ll shoot for the 5k distance again tomorrow.
• I witnessed something last night at our church softball game (the last one of the season ) which I had never witnessed before: the two umpires getting into a shouting match with each other. In our league, each team volunteers a player to ump the game before (or after) their own game. It’s usually very low-key. But the field ump made a call last night and the plate ump over-ruled him, and they got into it. Then towards the end of the game the plate ump ended the game and walked off the field, when the rule clearly states that we could’ve started the 7th inning. Grrrr… but it was a good game, we played well and won.
• Evening shows like this one make me wish I lived close to Nashville. The closest any of the Square Pegs will be getting to Iowa this year is when Andy P plays in Omaha and Lincoln, NE. Not close enough.

Well, I guess most of that wasn’t wacky. But it was stuff, though, you can’t deny it was stuff. One outta two isn’t bad.

I’ve hit the new CD jackpot over the past few days; last weekend found Jill Phillips‘ new Nobody’s Got It All Together in my mailbox. Yesterday then brought Andy Osenga’s new The Morning and remastered Photographs. I’ve listened through each of them about once so far. Good stuff. I’m sure I’ll post more, at least on Osenga, later.

I just realized that I haven’t posted anything yet about the Square Peg Alliance. The Alliance is a group of artists that have banded together, feeling that they are the square pegs that don’t quite fit in the round holes that music is expected to be these days. The aforementioned Andy Osenga and Jill Phillips are members, as well as other artists I write about here from time to time, like Randall Goodgame, Andrew Peterson, Andy Gullahorn, Derek Webb, and Sandra McCracken. Their website isn’t much yet, but the fan website over at squarepegalliance.net is up and kicking. I am actually on staff for the website, but I’m afraid I haven’t done a whole lot with it yet…