October can be pretty in the SF Bay Area when it's not foggy and you can see the sky :-). Last week was fair when it wasn't foggy. We also had one day of steady rain (which stopped by 7pm).
Rich made pea soup for supper Monday. Rich makes good pea soup!
I had some nifty and colorful dreams. An especially fun one involved penguins flying in the air — they were harnessed to helium balloons.
We went for another walk, this time on the lower part of the Sawyer camp trail. We saw half a dozen mule deer, many scrub jays and a happy covey of quail running about in some brush.
There were two technical gatherings this week. The first was a Perl meeting at the offices of SixApart in SF it was a talk about the Movable Type weblogging system (which is written in Perl).
The second meeting was a pizza sociable for Ruby programmers. Rich has been getting 'into" Ruby. There were about a dozen techie types talking and eating.
We visited the new Barnes & Noble bookstore at the re-built mall. It's interesting. There's no entrance on the lower level; there are no windows on that level either. But the upper level has a street entrance as well as mall access and most of the books we're interested in are on that level.
At the moment, the bookstore is only open until 9pm, but they will be extending their hours for the holidays and continuing those hours after the holidays. That's good. The other B&N stores in the area are open until 10pm.
In celebration of the Halloween week, there was a very cute inflatable Frankenstein's monster at the door into our local hardware store. If there had been one in a box I might have succumbed to temptation! He had little beady eyes (and very close together too). His bolts were at ear level instead of on his neck. He was holding a paper spider from each green hand and kind of "bobbing" toward everyone who cam in.
Sunday we visited the Scharffen Berger chocolate factory in Berkeley, then had lunch before heading back home. It was a lovely day for a BART ride and a beautiful day for a walk up and down College Ave., amongst the trick-or-treaters.
It was also a long and tiring day. As soon as we got home, I promptly took a nap!
This week I read a lot Mistletoe and Murder, by Carola Dunn (Daisy Dalrymple); The Gates of Sleep, Mercedes Lackey; Witch Way to Murder, by Shirley Damsgaard; Dead Canaries Don't Sing, by Cynthia Baxter; and Mrs. Malory and the Stay of Execution, by Hazel Holt.
In between and around the rest, I've had almost enough naps and plenty of snuggles with the cats. There have been good meals and interesting conversations with Spouse and friends.
No job offers, though.
Onward and Upward.
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