Ah, November. Cold, dark, grey, bleak, leafless November. Not quite frigid yet, but you can feel winter in the air and you know you’ve got six months of shitty weather to look forward to. God, I love me some November. I trust everybody had a happy Halloween on Friday and an enjoyable game of “Jesus Christ, when did we get all these clocks?” yesterday. This falling back stuff is strange. Yesterday morning, I went through the obligatory, “I can’t believe it’s only <insert time here> – it seems so much later!” Then in the afternoon – around one o’clock or so, I kinda got used to it, and kind of bummed when I found out I was looking at a clock that had already been changed. Then by about 5:00, I was back to thinking it was later than the clock said but by the time I stayed up too late (until nine – aka, the “old” ten), I was feeling as though we set the clocks ahead instead of behind, which kind of how I feel this morning (and what I’ll wish this evening – sunset is 4:53 PM today around here, and that just plain sucks).

Since I was off Friday, I took my sister to Costco to see what was so great. It was big and shiny and new. And they have some nice stuff, I guess. I didn’t really see anything that jumped out at me. There were way too many people, all milling about like “walkers” from the Walking Dead (shuffling around with no apparent regard for moving in a straight line and basically just being in my way). They actually made me produce my membership card just to walk in, and they only accept debit cards or AMEX (I have no desire to get another credit card – fee or no fee).

I greatly preferred my Sunday morning trip to BJs, to be honest. I got there two minutes after they opened, hardly any other people there, and I was in and out and back home in less than an hour.

Otherwise, it was kinda friggin’ cold and windy this weekend. Not much good for doing anything but consuming media. I’m really diggin’ my new Chromecast (why did I ever wait so long?), primarily for “casting” music to my stereo. It’s really kind of nice to be able to control it from my phone of computer or my tablet. And I had no idea, but when I “cast” to it, it actually turns on my receiver and sets it to the appropriate output. Aint that something? Those crafty bastards at Onkyo (OK, it’s not unique to them, it’s HDMI CEC – Consumer Electronic Control – but still)!

It’s supposed to warm up a bit this week, but don’t worry – it’ll be cold again next weekend.