October turned to November and with just a couple months left in 2025 its tough not to get all waxy poetic here. We have a vacation incoming this month, I finished my summer work, I completed my October challenge of suburban sketching, and I don’t have much going on in the training department (at least until we’re back from our trip.)

That said, this first weekend of November was busy-ish:

Friday night was Halloween, obviously. We’ve been going thru this transition while the Kid was in High School where she no longer hung out with her old man to go out and do Halloweenie things. As a result, through most of high school we spent October 31^st evening camped in our living room to hand out candy to the fewer-than-twenty kids who wandered by.  This year, we ditched. She’s in Uni and opted to stay home and take over the candy biz (for what turned out to be ten kids total) and we went over to C&A’s house for an “empty nesters” jam. Sure, we’re not quite empty nesting, but some days the Kid no longer being a kid hits more real. 

Saturday was chill. I barely got off the couch, if I’m being honest. We got our annual flu shots on Friday afternoon, so by Saturday I was feeling the residual ache of my immune system reacting. I spent some time on my 8r4d-stagram code base—which consequently noted turns three years old today!— and made a couple more pre-trip tweaks to the place I’ll be posting most of my photos.

We made stew for supper and settled in to watch a movie. Chill.

Sunday morning was daylight savings time. It was the good one… the extra hour of sleep one. The dog didn’t care and wanted her breakfast at the regular time tho, so I’ll have to claim my extra hour incrementally over the next couple weeks as I adjust her to the time change.

We met and ran eight klicks in the chilly pre-winter air. It was harder than it should have been, but my whole body is kinda settling in for the season I think. I need to re-energize before our trip somehow, but maybe candy, slouching, and flu shot were not the way.

And then as sort of an epic conclusion to the weekend, the Kid, I and nine of the run clubbers met at West Edmonton Mall to go to the IMAX rerelease of Back to the Future in celebration of it’s 40^th anniversary. That was the real party.