The Gales of November

Hopefully, there will be no gales...

The highlight of the week was Halloween on Friday. The chemists dressed as the Noble Gases (I was Xenon) and competed against the biologists (who were very clever and dressed as six different drosophila mutants). I wore my costume all day at school and then went to K and P's house for snacks and drinks.

Dressed as the noble gas Xenon.

 It was chilly every night this week and I finally had to turn on the heat in the house. For Cody, you understand. Obviously I would have toughed it out with extra blankets and a hot water bottle for the bed.

Saturday I joined L and B for a walk on Path 400. We did the same 3.5 miles as last month, which covered the newly opened section. After the walk, I went to the post office in Sandy Springs to mail a package and then noticed I was across the street from the Crumbl cookie shop. I used my coupon from the Gladiators home opener to get a free cookie.

The cookie had Reese's pieces.

After that I drove up to Cumming to visit a pavlova bakery which was doing a Yelp Elite event. For showing up and writing a review, I got a free tiny pavlova bite and a bowl of strawberry ice cream.

Between two pieces of pavlova (meringue), there was Nutella and strawberries.

My plan was to go next to Indio Brewing in Sugar Hill for lunch and a beer, but I found that they were closed for a private party. So instead I went to Duluth and had lunch at Sweet Octopus.

Shrimp Wonton Ramen 

I still had a beer afterwards at 6S Brewing, which I have passed on two other visits to Duluth without going in. The sour was okay, the televisions playing college football were far too loud, and I was about the only one there, drinking my beer and reading a book for an hour.

That was Saturday. On Sunday I did a lot of schoolwork at home, while cooking crockpot soup. It was a bright sunny morning and I took advantage of that by sweeping out the patio which had collected a lot of leaves, pine needles, and other plant debris. Good thing I did, because it rained later in the day and everything would have been muddy and soggy.

I went to a concert at a Lutheran church in Decatur in the afternoon to hear Mozart's Requiem. One of the cribbage club guys invited me because he is in the choir. There was a small orchestra and four soloists in addition. The sanctuary was unusual: round, with the musicians in the middle and the audience around the outside. There were multicolored stained glass windows, a balcony featuring a pipe organ with red lighting, and a three-dimensional stained glass cross lit from the inside hanging in the middle of the room.