Timelies all!

Mr. S's school is going to three days in-person and two days virtual starting this week. In a couple weeks it will be four days in-person and one day virtual. Hopefully he will continue to have good days at school.

Niece's flight was delayed and now she's afraid she's miss her connection. I'm staying optimistic but this is not the way I wanted her to first experience flying. Oh well.

My family has already decided to cancel our traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations. It's sad and we're all upset about it, but also... honestly... Kim will be in Sweden with her new boyfriend and won't have to worry about missing celebrations, Sarah's contract ended and she's broke and doesn't want to travel anyway, Lil is scared to be F2F with anyone, and I'm exhausted and glad to be relieved of the holidays for once. I probably won't even decorate. Not that I do a lot of decorating anyway. It'll be nice to have days off with no travel required.

Zen, I hope the rest of the flight is trouble free and you and your neice have a good visit.

My dentist's office is a new double-wide across from a horse farm on a semi-rural road. He's only minutes out of town, so he has a very healthy book of clients. Plus he's young and a pop culture geek. He gets the references, and volleys back. He's also a good dentist.

Somehow I timed it just right, and there was no line when I went to vote (despite there being an around-the-corner line earlier) and a line was 3 deep when I came out of voting.

They did not have stickers. I am trying hard to be adult about this.

Zen, I hope the rest of the flight is trouble free and you and your neice have a good visit.

Ditto

We are not going up tot he big Thanksgiving "Do" in PA, but we are probably going to go up for Christmas; it will be just my sister, her wife, their daughter and her boyfriend. It kind of depends on when my niece and her boyfriend go up for Christmas. They're in Atlanta right now - both very conscientious, and they isolate, but I'd be happiest if they were back for a couple of weeks before Christmas and all healthy and stuff. I dunno. We'll see.

Niece made it to the gate on time for her connecting flight, yay. She's now decided that flying is pretty great if only there weren't so many people, so she's pretty much where I am w.r.t air travel.

Riiiiight, because grump is a beacon of morality in that respect.

I don't understand my dad and Trump. He doesn't like him at all, didn't vote for him but gets weirdly defensive when people criticize Trump. I know the last time we briefly talked about politics Dad indicated he was for higher minimum wage, better benefits/protections for workers and "everyone should have healthcare". But he won't vote Democrat because... Democrats are secular heathen-y people who embrace bad things (in his mind)

And he is very anti anything that isn't heterosexuality which I kept hoping he would change or mellow but he hasn't.

Mom has become more progressive as she has gotten older and is confused by Dad's weirdness about Trump as I am.

My mother and I just drove out to my cousin's in the burbs to peep some leaves, pick up some books, and hang out on her patio for a bit, and then we got some apples and a pumpkin on the way back. Autumn!

TCG, ltc, and myself will be having our first Thanksgiving that will be just the three of us.

I think we are still going to my uncle and aunt's, who will be hosting in their open garage with space heaters. It's not perfect -- I'm sure people will be too close while eating -- but we'll see.