Attending this years's Circle of Hope Luminary display in the town common. Our bags that we dedicated were also on display, although it took a little bit of looking around to find them.

Have a safe and happy holiday and don't get too stuffed!

This is what an HP Designjet 42" plotter looks like when it's in pieces being repaired by a service tech! Hopefully by tomorrow I'll know if it's fixed and can start printing large things again.

Update: Sadly it is still giving errors. Tech said he'll need to research and come back later. Figures.

Couple of cat pics I took over the weekend.

Took a walk down by the Mystic River this morning. Came out pretty darn good I think for my cellphone pic! I think I am getting a lot better with my photos lately.

Just a quick glimpse of some stuff I'd been up to, clockwise from left - some scenery in Newport RI, a bunch of shells along the shore in Dartmouth MA, a building in Tufts Powderhouse Park where I grew up, and swans in the Mystic River in Somerville.

Today has been spent getting things ready for winter, like putting away the grill and lopping the rosebushes back into shape.

And for my TV viewing I've been watching Ancients Behaving Badly - I like this show because besides just telling you the history about various ruthless rulers throughout history and what they did - most of it very unpleasant, it also puts them on a "psychograph" where the y-axis rates them from "goal-driven killer" to "psychopathic murderer", while the x-axis measures individual pathologies, Right up my alley!

Not going to the Red Sox parade tomorrow, although I probably would have had I not planned a special getaway for tomorrow!

Overall, not too bad. Just for the record - I neither gained nor lost - probably because I just continued to do what I normally do. I was mostly just curious to see how much activity I do in a typical day.

So, there.

I like cats. Cats are cool. I grew up with cats. And sometimes if a stray came by, we would "adopt" it and it became the family pet. Of course, there was a time when the cat situation got out of hand and we had a bit too many, and a bunch had to go, but hopefully they all made it alright.

What cat likes to be in the dishwasher????

Saw another rainbow after work today. Had to grab a shot but it wasn't optimal conditions trying to take it through the office window.

I went for a walk outside my office today, as the city of Cambridge finally opened up this restored wetland they've been working on. This is a pic of a walkway leading out to a little body of water surrounded by vegetation and greenery.

One of the pianos around town, this one in Inman Square, Cambridge, and some of the trees surrounding Wellesley Town Hall. All in all, a pretty quiet weekend. Mostly been trying to shake a cough I've come down with and getting supplies to repaint the bathroom soon.

Update: Car is fine thank goodness. Just felt like I needed it checked. And yes, I have been affected by the govt shutdown. Since the place where I work mostly works on federal contracts most of us have been forced to take vacation time thus far. When that runs out I imagine we'll be taking unpaid leave of absences until this gets resolved.

Dug out the old 8mm video projector and found this gem from around 1976 of me and my sister rocking out.

More from the location.

Places visited:

Winberries
George's Lincoln Park Diner
Tabor Pizza
Maywood Pancake House - vegan pancakes!
Conklin Farms - usually go to Ort Farms because it's huge and better but was too far to fit in this time.

Other locations visited this last month:
Waterfire
Tougas Farm apple picking
Chatham Bars Inn