Not much to say right now

It's been an odd week. (What else is new?) My neighbor across the street dropped dead at the age of 54. The construction drags on, but we're getting close to the end of it, IF the weather would only cooperate. Except for ONE absolutely glorious week, it has been a really crappy October! It's snowing today.

I'm working on my Halloween costume for a party Saturday night, and starting to make Christmas gifts. I've been keeping an eye on the Occupy movement, amazed at how they've been able to shift the national dialogue over to the REAL issues ordinary people are struggling with, although the corporate media and politicians are still as tone deaf and out of touch as ever.

I'm paying especially close attention to the situation in Oakland, where my son Brendan (an Iraq war vet) lives and works these days. He is outraged at the way peaceful protesters' rights are being trampled on. He points out that although the "hippies" and anarchists and other extremists play better on cable news, "the overwhelming majority of people in these groups are normal people with jobs and families." Got that, FOX?

We live in SUCH interesting times.