11/3 full circle

I voted today! In San Francisco, since that's where I was living when I registered, last year when I moved here from Germany. It's been exactly one year, and it's fun to see things come full circle: Halloween, the World Series, the dark evenings, the stormy weather, the holiday party invites. That was an exciting time - my airbnb apartment in the Mission, the Day of the Dead parade outside, even holed up with my weird illness, binge-watching True Detective, watching the sunrise through bay windows.

Now I'm at home in Berkeley. It's the coldest night of the season so far (53 degrees with a forecast low of 47). I went out to dinner with vdb at Plum Bar in downtown Oakland for a little catch-up. Zuhair made a wood-fire in the fireplace. It rained all through the night last night -- perhaps the first rain all year. It feels like Autumn.