End-of-the-Month Highlights Day

New photos have been added to the Life, 2018 album. Google Photos sucks.

• Events
  • Maia and I met up with Michael and Sachin at Mellow Mushroom for Happy Hour on H 11/1.
  
  
  • Went back to Deer Haven in Edinburg, VA with Car and Ben F 11/2 - M 11/5. Followed up with a family dinner at Cafesano on M 11/5.
  
  
  • Voted for liberty on T 11/6.
  
  
  • Visited my parents with Maia while Rebecca went to an all-day symposium on F 11/9.
  
  
  • Did some raking and had a family dinner at Red Robin on S 11/10. Rebecca taught anatomy to advanced yoga teacher trainees.
  
  
  • Had our first snow event with about 2 inches on H 11/15.
  
  
  • Went to Fredericksburg for lunch with Catherine at Eileen's on F 11/16. Spent the night at Anna and Ben's and came home on S 11/17.
  
  
  • Went to Taylorstown for Thanksgiving with the Whitmers on H 11/22.
  
  
  • Put up the Christmas tree on F 11/23 and discovered that we have mice in the crawlspace.
  
  
  • De-moused the crawlspace on S 11/24, then went to the Smiths for Thanksgiving leftovers and Game Night (Jackbox).
  
  
  • Took a family walk around Old Town Herndon and had dinner at Mediterranean Breeze on S 11/25.
  
  
  • Maia visited her Uri grandparents on H 11/29.


• Projects
  • Refurbished my decrepit treadmill (and de-soldered the annoyingly loud beeper from its circuit board), in hopes of many more years of moderate jogging to stave off bacon-based heart attacks.
  
  
  • Went on a light pollution war against blue LEDs in my home office with electrical tape.


• Consumerism
  • Got a massive and massively quiet new fridge on M 11/26.
  
  
  • Finally beat Zelda: Breath of the Wild and reinstalled Fallout 4.
  
  
  • Enjoyed the new Muse album, Simulation Theory, this month.
  
  
  • Enjoying a slow rewatch of Person of Interest as well as Patriot, Season Two and Silicon Valley, Season Four.
  
  

November's Final Grade: B, Solid, fun month in spite of the lackluster weather.