* The longest and most difficult/tiring day of the week. And this week it was the last field lab of the season. (These are always stressful as they involve driving a fifteen passenger van). I'm glad it's done but I'm tired.
* At some point I guess I start thinking about Christmas? It still feels too early. I do need to take down the last of the Halloween stuff and decide if I put up my "generic fall" wreath and door mat or if I go straight to Early Christmas. I admit I do not feel the spirit much yet, don't know if I will, but maybe it's a fake-it-till-you-make-it.
Many years, I had my Christmas shopping done by now, but this semester has been so busy I haven't been out for other than basic groceries in a little while, and of course there's *very little* in town (I could try the local gourmet shop, if for nothing else, for stocking stuffers). I mail ordered something for my niece but it's backordered and I'll feel bad if it doesn't come on time.
I might do gift certificates for my brother and sister in law, and I'm considering some kind of fancy-food thing for my mom - I've done smoked salmon in the past and she liked that, or maybe I can find a couple of gift basket type things.
It does hit differently once the family is scattered and you've lost people. I even used to send a "family gift" to the aunts and uncles.
* it doesn't help that it's been unseasonably warm; it was close to 80 F today
* I am still working on the hat. I'm not quite midway through the crown before the decreases but at least it's looking more like a hat
* I'm still enjoying reading "A Far Better Thing." I'm pretty sure it will wind up breaking my heart (based on what I know of the source story, "A Tale of Two Cities") Stories where a character chooses to sacrifice themselves for the good of another that they love always get to me.
I might read the "source story" next, though Dickens is more impenetrable than this novel and it'll take me a while.
* I did buy myself a little something - well, it was a donation premium for world wildlife fund. I got a "cross fox," which is apparently a fox with a mixed color coat
I decided to name him Christopher because Christopher Cross (get it?) but only after a quick check of the official biography on Wikipedia to make sure he didn't "break bad" in some way in recent years (because some well known people have, and I hadn't heard anything about him in a while. Apparently he's been unwell, had a bad bout of COVID in the early days of it)
And if you're not a kid of the 80s or a fan of yacht rock, this might remind you:
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