An update, finally.

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I guess I'm making an update every few months now. Life gets busy. Key things:

Africa pics: Finally up!

Had a very bad strained back issue in September but it resolved itself in a week+.

Dealt with an Ian storm (which we evacuated to Fort Lauderdale for, but it actually didn't hit here as hard as elsewhere) and a Nichole storm (which we stayed put through). Second time living here I've put up the hurricane shutters, which are kind of a pain in the butt to do. Hopefully we won't need to put these shutters up for a while.

Orchestra season has begun.

The usual Christmas plans to visit north shore New Orleans area were changed and we are now visiting the Gulf Shores AL area. We'll see how that goes.

A Richard's Run 5K was participated in, the first one since plague times. Unfortunately it was marred by Crystal tripping on some crappy sidewalks (possibly made crappy by Ian, though) while we were walking on the way to a different brewery than our usual post-5K spot (due to the real potential of issues thanks to this incident). She's fine, the beer at the new place was good, and all is well.

Politics happened, but of course the ol' Brits won in one respect: they have the best surreal memes, as demonstrated by the Liz Truss lettuce (notable enough to have its own Wikipedia entry).

This weekend was more normal. A bit of "cooking" stuff, such as making my lunch black beans and doing some pre-prep for dinner on Monday. One of the changes since the pandemic has been: since "work from home" (for my job) seems solidified at the moment (and honestly I'll push for that in the future, you don't need to go to the office to code), it frees up some time "blocs" to actually make dinner meals, usually slow cooker stuff since it fits the schedule better. The previous life of brewing beer is kind of on hold (it frees up Saturdays for movie nights, and as I get older the process I used, with lots of lifting of 5 gallon+ containers and all, seems more of a pain in the butt for an increasingly creaky body). But this sort of takes its place in a different way.

Monday's dinner for instance will be a "reasonably authentic" gumbo (dark roux, trinity, chicken, shrimp, andouille, filé), the main things that are a little different is that the roux is made with butter (but still is the standard 45 minute+ stir-over-low-heat process) and beer (Andygator) is used.

Hopefully it won't be another three months before a post. :) In the mean time, will be going to bed in just a little bit.