Big walk

I skipped work and did a ten mile hike through Highland Forest. Only took five hours, it had rained earlier so it was all wet, but the rain mostly tapered off to a fine mist. I left home at the same time I always do, and I got home right when I normally do. Nobody would have known if I hadn't said anything. 

I share my location with my wife, so if I hadn't said anything she could have found out anyway. I don't keep anything from her, so she knew (only the day before), but sometimes I wonder if she's even looking.

Or reading my blog. She knows it's here, so... I don't know. 

Words with Fiends

I have been playing 'Words With Friends' for a very long time, but mostly with only one person. I normally win those games.

My wife started to play. She beats me as easily as I once won against my Tiny opponent, and I think they both take joy in this.

No seriously, I won fairly easily against my Tiny One. My wife, however, is a monster in this game. 

Wild swing

Two weeks ago today I was at the NYS Fair. It was warm, sunny, and always fun. In those two weeks, I'm now wearing my jackets in the morning (but I might not need it by noon). It's not a gentle decline, no slow drop in average temperature. No, it's more like swinging open the freezer door and getting a cold blast in the face.

I'm not complaining. I actually like autumn. It's the dry shoulder season. Sure I like spring, but it's also wet and muddy, and who likes that?

Reuniversarryy

Today would have been my grandparents 70th wedding anniversary. I guess it still is, but it's also the first one they've spent together in 24 years.

I'm sad but I'm also not sad, does that make any sense?

Late Labor

Since Labor Day is the first Monday in September, and school in New York always starts after Labor Day, everything is late this year. Last year the first of school was the 4th. The schools out here have this silly rule where they have a mandatory minimum number of days they're supposed to be in (you can thank the teachers union - they get paid in full for every day, even half days), so I'm wondering how they rigged it up this year.

I'll find out once I actually look at the academic calendar.