I can feel it in my bones (music)

I realized starting New Year's Eve that I was out of the December funk and on an upswing. Even going back to work today wasn't bad. Give it a week.

Meanwhile, let's listen to some music.

https://soundcloud.com/westwoodrecordings/sets/the-best-of-westwood-2018
Westwood Recordings' selection of the 20 best tracks they produced in the past year. It's fun and funky and it has Chali 2na ("Change the World") with some incredible flow. There's a bit more wub and electronica nonsense in it than I'd like but that's the way of things the past year. I keep hoping it'll get better, and honestly any collection that's 80% excellent is good enough for at least a blog mention.

https://soundcloud.com/westwoodrecordings/hands-up-raise-your-fist
I thought for sure I'd blogged this but I can't find it and it's good enough you should listen to it again anyway. Funk Hunters doing "Hands Up (Raise Your Fist)" is so very apropos of our social/political moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OnN8zGsJCg
I think the Leo Napier who guests on the previous track is this Leo Napier. "Can't Change Crazy" - ain't that the truth. The lyrics are... something else.

https://woxow.bandcamp.com/track/woxow-chaos-k-lab-remix-feat-ken-boothe-akil-from-j5-blurum13
Look, I promise I do listen to things other than funk. I just don't think most of it is that good or worth listening to more than once. I did sign up for Spotify so maybe I'll figure out how to find new music on there but for now this is what Soundcloud is giving me and so it's what I have for you.

The (we hope) penultimate kidney stone update

Yesterday I went in for an ultrasound that checked for new stones and also to see if my ureter had healed properly.

No stones, yes healed. Whew.

I will need another ultrasound in 6 months as a final check to see that stones are not forming but if that one is clear and I'm symptom-free (by then it will have been a year) we'll call this a one-time thing and be done with it. Yay! I'm likely to try keeping my diet modifications though the doc would like me to be even more low-protein than I've been.