Short stuff

In addition to hundreds of pieces of spam offering enhancements to my anatomy (in some cases, rather radical enhancements, indeed), one had the subject line "Alert Windows." Would that be windows that wake me up at a specified time? Or windows that react when something comes too close to them, perhaps moving out of the way of the stray baseball somehow rather than be shattered? Or some new version of M$?

Recent Mass license plates seen: ITAL and BABAR.

People hosted during Sukkot: 33.

It looks like I'll be having a musical Shabbat dinner in a few weeks, and I was thinking of what foods would go along with the theme. Some thoughts: bell peppers, key lime pie, and singing hinnies (scone-like objects; sample recipes here and here). I also had thoughts of foods that would look like half-notes, things like that. So.... other suggestions, anyone?

Simchat Torah highlights included seeing lots of familiar faces at the evening hakafot, some of them very unexpected; singing for the kid aliyah; my first time in the women's hakafot (albeit briefly); and hearing the chatan Breishit aliyah, which is pretty much my favorite one. It always seems to go by too fast during the regular parsha, with all the amazing creation stuff that's in there....

Productive evening

• The tomato cage is back in the basement.
  
• The second load of laundry is in the dryer, which is especially good because I don't think the underwear fairy was likely to visit tonight.
  
• The plants I'm overwintering (hopefully) are inside, one of the lavenders still flowering, the ginger towering over everything else (and just sent up a new shoot, too) (for completeness: two different lavenders, ginger, two thymes, and a rosemary).
  
• Some plans are finalized, others further on the way to being final.
  
• The sukkah is down, well before the first snow, even. I think this is the earliest I've managed it, ever, and without getting a splinter, either.