At this recording, I’m about 42 minutes away from freedom, freedom from jury duty calls for three years.

They could still email me for tomorrow, up until 6 p.m.

So let’s hope that they don’t.

Anyway, theme song.

Your Daily Lex.

Today included another frustrating-to-some-collections puzzle, where it’s mostly single letters.

Some people get it right away.

Some people solve it in just four turns, which is great.

Some people really struggle with it.

Some people give up.

But I get that.

And sometimes they’re harder than others, and today’s one of those harder days.

What’s funny to me is, and I’ve talked about this on the podcast before, but it’s when people write back to me on various social media platforms to tell me they didn’t like it.

I don’t mind if they say, like, hey, this one beat me today, or this one was too hard for me.

But when they’re like, no, I didn’t like today’s puzzle, or today’s puzzle was bad, that’s always humorous to me.

But I guess I appreciate everyone’s feedback.

That’s not true.

I appreciate the nice people’s feedback.

The negative people’s feedback, I don’t appreciate at all.

Why would I?

Anyway, because I’m recording this late, and because I’m going to be done for my day, and not sitting at my desk, I’m going to share with you a song that I was going to wait to share with you until tomorrow.

But now you get it today instead.

A friend of mine mentioned how she always gets tension headaches around Christmas time, always gets a migraine on Christmas day.

And to me, that immediately put a song in my head, almost fully formed.

And so here is that song, which will be available on all streaming platforms, perhaps even when you hear this episode, perhaps not.

It’s already available on YouTube, I saw, and should be coming to Apple Music and Spotify, et cetera, in the days ahead.

But here is the newest single from Lex Friedman, from his upcoming album, To Be Named Later.

Here is Tension Headache Christmas.

Well, the holidays are coming again, and you know just what that means.

Friends and family and fancy meals, and maybe nativity scenes.

The tree is up and the snow is down, and we got to deck each hall.

But all I want for Christmas is ibuprofen and Tylenol.

Cause it’s a tension headache Christmas, that’s just how it goes.

The carolers are a little loud, and my head hurts when it snows.

It’s a tension headache Christmas, but I’m still glad you’re here.

Cause even with my headache, I’m still full of Christmas cheer.

We’ll eat under the mistletoe, a glass of eggnog would be fine.

On second thought, put that milk away, and pour me a glass of wine.

The stockings are hung and the cookies are out, at the North Pole Santa’s departing.

But it only feels like Christmas now, since I feel my migraine starting.

Cause it’s a tension headache Christmas, that’s just how it goes.

The carolers are a little loud, and my head hurts when it snows.

It’s a tension headache Christmas, but I’m still glad you’re here.

Cause even with my headache, I’m still full of Christmas cheer.

The sleigh bells ring, there’s jingling, I feel each bell inside my head.

But even though my head hurts so, it’s only cause it’s Santa that I’m seeing red.

Cause it’s a tension headache Christmas, that’s just how it goes.

The carolers are a little loud, and my head hurts when it snows.

It’s a tension headache Christmas, but I’m still glad you’re here.

Cause even with my headache, I’m still full of Christmas cheer.

Yes, even with my headache, I’m still full of Christmas cheer.

Lex