November Already?

     How is it already early November? (Guess that's what happens when you don't do much that's all that exciting.) On the other hand, I don't have to feel bad about playing my Christmas playlists on Pandora and Spotify.

     RSU had a staged reading of two Agatha Christie radio plays last weekend, so of course I was all over that. They did great, and it was great to see Andrew and Kessiah again. Also saw David, but didn't have a chance to say hi.
     Hadn't been back in Claremore since the production of Texaco Mornings last year. Of course had the nasty "I haven't prepared enough" feeling being in the audience, since it was held in the Baird Performance Studio AND it was a theater performance, but it was kind of comforting that I still had that reaction. I didn't fit with Claremore at all, but in that context and on that campus, I belong. 

     The Okmulgee Public Library's annual book sale in September went pretty well, it raised around two thousand dollars, and either through customers, volunteers or reselling at Gardner's, around six thousand books were properly moved or disposed of.

      The NASCAR season is almost over, thank goodness. (FAR TOO LONG, far too predictable.) I'm not going to be covering it at Frontstretch next season, since I'm kind of burned out. But they've been great people to work with, and maybe in 2021 I'll be back. I don't know, we'll see.
     I know a lot about sports, but I don't care enough about them to invest so much time and energy into covering them regularly. So somewhere like Grantland or Deadspin, which does a mix of sports and pop culture, would probably be a good fit. (Oh, wait - neither of those sites exist anymore. Dang it.)
     On the other hand, hockey season is in full swing, and the Thunder are off to a surprisingly solid start the post-Russell Westbrook era.

     Currently reading a bunch of nonfiction - in the middle of Chesterton's Heretics (the precursor to Orthodoxy), a book of Walter Cronkite's WWII letters to his wife, and several nonfiction works about dogs to review for Dog O'Day.

     FINALLY watched Seabiscuit, which was extremely well-made, I liked it just as much as I figured I would. Cautiously curious about Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker in December, but since the future Star Wars plans seem to be Disney Plus TV shows, those seem like they would work much better.

     Been meeting with Steven over coffee to discuss 1 Thessalonians, that's been going okay, lot less awkward than I expected a "Hey, let's do a Bible study!" to be.