It’s a potpourri post since I can’t hold one coherent thought in my head tonight. It’s Halloween. I drank a Gin Pellegrino and talked with a Baptist preacher. There are precisely zero trick-or-treaters in my neighborhood.

» October went so quickly that I’m kind of reeling in shock—especially because it doesn’t feel like I did anything. That’s not strictly true (I unpacked most of my new house and had minor oral surgery done) but it feels that way and that is the worst part.

» I’m frustrated that I can’t find a good source of historical “day book” syntax and prompts that can scaffold posts like these when I am scraping the bottom of the barrel for content. That’s probably silly of me, since our modern propensity toward journaling is made possible, in part, because of our limitless (perceptually-speaking) resources, so most early-modern daybookery was probably things like “The accounts for my estate” and “Birth records of the Hockney family tree.”

» I’m ALSO frustrated that some days I have ideas for 20 different blog posts in my head, and other day’s it’s like a flock of butterflies in there. Nothing. One of my greatest strengths is my Extraverted Intuition, but it’s also one of my greatest weaknesses. It rains hard, but the aqueducts that could translate that rain into long-term stability don’t always function well.

» In other news, I started thinking about promoting this blog today. Terrifying.

» The manager of the meat department at my local food co-op and I had a talk today about custom sausages. Considering that I added sausages back to my diet last weekend to a delicious outcome, I’m interested.

» EXO teaser right on schedule: