TWELVE DAYS AND COUNTING

Work has been as exhausting as I'd expected and more, but I did get up to Tenleytown way up in Northwest this afternoon to look into a desk chair I'm probably going to buy. Weather has taken a turn for the cool and overcast in the past few days, and for a moment on there as I walked up Wisconsin I could have sworn I was on the Oregon coast. Low clouds and a misting rain. A sharp charcoal aroma I always associate with campfires. Cutesy, upscale shops and strange weather equipment on the next hill over. And then as I walked into the department store, it was over.

I also found time this evening to purchase my first six-pack of hard cider in more than a few years. It's that time of year. I also finally got around to carving my first jack-o-lantern in a few more years than that. It's scowling at me from the darkened kitchen area right now, but later tonight or tomorrow evening I'll put it out on the balcony where others can see it. Or throw rocks at it. You never can tell with those damned kids these days.

Now I'm enjoying a pretty decent bottle of Hardcore (get it?) and watching baseball -- which I haven't done enough of lately. I've mentioned been keeping tabs on the Redskins and the Packers (both won last weekend for the first time in weeks; the Packers more convincingly) and the presidential election, but the MLB playoffs could be something else altogether: If the Astros win tonight, it'll be the first time in U.S. history that baseball teams from the home states of each party nominee faced off in the World Series. How about that?

Update -- Oh well.

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posted by WWB at 8:54 PM |