Well, November has come and gone, and THANK GOD the election is (mostly) over.
The guy we wanted to win won! Hooray!
Now comes the annual "What Am I Thankful For This Year"? entry that you all love so well.
There's really the basics: Thankful that I still have my job, my health, a roof over my head. My family is currently in the midst of a Covid scare. Yeah, my mother got briefly exposed to a co-worker that had it and my parents got tested yesterday. Outlook is looking good since both parties had masks on the whole time they were together and it's looking unlikely that any of us have it. But if you don't see an entry by New Year's...you'll know the worst has happened.
Also, we lost Alex Trebek at the beginning of the month. I knew it was coming (I called it a year ago that we'd be saying goodbye in 2020), but that didn't make it any less painful. He was by all accounts a lovely man and I would've loved to have met him. Sadly, it wasn't meant to be.
BUT that didn't stop me from getting my hands on this beauty:
I scrolled through eBay the moment I heard the news and came across this signed card. It hits all my buttons: the picture is of mustache and perm era Alex, he's posing with books with himself on the cover, AND it's technically signed to my name! What a stroke of luck that I bought it off a fellow Steve (and at a good price!)
But with that out of the way, here's some good stuff to look forward to!
Christmas Music Season!
Yeah, I used to be a "Christmas Music in December ONLY" type for the longest time, but the sudden loss of one of my best friends last December made me not want to be in the mood for Christmas last year, so to cope I started to listen to Christmas music the rest of the year. But now we're in the midst of Mariah Carey, Frank Sinatra, and Michael Buble emerging from their coffins to bombard us with all the holiday classics wherever we go. But this time I welcome it. I'm still in grief.
New iPhone!
Yes folks, I finally bit the bullet and upgraded! No more shattered screens! No more awkwardly lit pictures! I'm going from the 6s to the 12 Pro, literally the newest one out there. So since I bought it during Black Friday Weekend, I didn't exactly walk out of the Verizon store with one. Rather, it's gonna come in the mail and I'm gonna have to finagle a way to get all my old stuff onto the new phone. I used to be Mr. Tech, the guy who has to explain to my parents how to work the simplest functions on a their computers. But now I've been humbled, I'm 33 and the lack of a home button frightened me.
Expect some really nice looking pictures for the annual Christmas entry.
The return of the McRib!
Yes, the fast food gods decided that 2020 would NOT end in a total wash and are gracing us with the McRib's presence once again! It returns December 2nd, and will probably not last too long after that. Now, I'm not expecting a mad rush for it a la the Popeye's Chicken Sandwich (which was totally worth it. I just got lucky and ate one the day before the word got out), but if all goes well, I should have my first taste of it by the weekend.
It'll be the first national rollout since 2012, but I honestly forgot the last time I actually ate one. I'm pretty sure it was ten years ago, since that's when I wrote an entry about it.
Yeah, those pictures looks nice, but they predate the iPhone cameras. Expect hi res photos the next time I see you guys.
