Well not quite yet, but I am kicking off October with a 5 day reprieve, to which the current forecast is predicting rain, rain, and more rain for 4 of those 5 days. Sigh.

Interesting day though, filled with Yankee Candles and pizza, two of my very favorite things in the world.

The pizza came as a result of our new supervisor sucking up to us in the vain hope that showering us with free food would get us to look the other way while he’s prancing around in his office in his Superman undies, but also for catching up on some work and like, stuff.

I had to do THE RUN this week, so I went out to grab an unmarked car from fleet, only… there was no car.

“There’s no car left at all? ALL of them were signed out??”

“Yep, and there’s one missing too.”

“….what do you mean it’s missing?”

“It’s just, gone. Nobody knows where it is.”

“Dude what am I supposed to do? I need a car.”

“Can’t you walk?”

I muttered something about his mother, then walked out again. I ended up taking my car, placed an official decal on my dash, and basically had a ball breaking as many moving violations as I could while I did the run. You haven’t quite lived until you’ve jumped the curb outside some official government building and parked on the grass just so you can be right next to the door. I swear this is how it should always be.

Just don’t drive really fast or you might upset the security guards when they come running out half scared that you were about to kamikaze the building in an attempted terrorist attack. Have to remember that for next time.

Since I was already out and about I decided to take a slight detour to say, the mall, and spent about 30 minutes or so sniffing Yankee candles, before deciding on some fall harvest candles that should keep me sufficiently ensconced in the scents of Autumn until Thanksgiving.

Speaking of harvest, I’m planning to go out as far east as I can possibly muster this Sunday (easily a 4 hour drive), so I can watch the harvest moon unobstructed as it rises from the east. I should be surrounded by ocean then so it should make for some snap-worthy scenery, but, meh. I always plan things like this and then I start getting depressed because I’m going out alone and as such I’m never able to share these tender moments with someone sporting bouncy boom-booms.

In any event, it will probably rain anyway, so instead I’ll likely veg out in front of the computer and immerse myself in Nancy Drew game playing. Either way, a good way to spend a nice, extended weekend if you ask me.

Tags: autumn, government, harvest moon, Nancy Drew, October, pizza, reprieve, yankee candles
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