I walked quite a bit today, over 3 miles, and shopped.

now am cooking. roasting beets, did the chicken with a bunch of garlic thing into the oven thing you all discussed, did more chicken in a butter chicken simmer sauce, and put even more chicken into the crockpot with BBQ sauce. 2 thighs each way. should get me through most of the week.

I ate none of that for dinner. For dinner I had Boston Chicken mac & cheese and now gonna have Ben & Jerry's EmpowerMint.

I have not decided what to do about donations. Holiday donations I know I will make are: Everytown for Gun Safety, NPR stations, National Parks Service, Donors Choose

My cynical feel is that markets are back up and doing so well to get all they can before January.

I hate everyone but y'all. You get it.

There was pumpkin spice goat cheese at the store. I think it's gone too far.

There was pumpkin spice goat cheese

Yewch. That sounds kind of gross. Although I put cream cheese (when I have it) on pumpkin bread, so maybe it's not so bad.

~ma for family, aurelia and Sail.

I need to look at reallocating my 401K to something more conservative on Monday. Tomorrow I'm going to make myself get up and go to the farmer's market.

shrift, have you gone walking in the redwoods yet? Let me know if you want to do that some weekend, and I can pick you up at BART for an afternoon in the nice shady dampness.

If you want to be cheered up: [link]

For those looking for suggestions, a librarian has started a crowdsourced list of both national and local orgs to help marginalized populations: [link]

Also "A Selected Annotated Bibliography for Librarian Resistance" by Jessamyn. [link]

Was just listening to the radio, to one of the myriad rock songs that are a thinly veiled description of sex. It occurred to me that the song was probably longer than most actual sexual encounters. Though I may be unfairly judging the men I knew in my 20s.