random thoughts – Day 1,295 – (Tuesday) – schedule shakeup

The schedule has been shifted sideways. Book club, which had been the fourth Thursday of the month forever has, effective tonight, changed to the first Tuesday of the month. The timing of the change put us with a meeting last Thursday and another one tonight. There was a lot of reading taking place in the past week.

The weather was mild and comfortable and very un-October today. The windows were open at the house, and work focus was punctuated with the backyard neighbor coughing and then yelling into his phone. Oh, the cheerful sounds of summer.

At book club after work, we were at our outside table at Warp & Weft. Our beverages, appetizers, and conversation of An American Immigrant took place under the awning trimmed with lights and artificial flowers. The occasional motorcycle drove by, loudly, drowning us out and we would pause, waiting for the noise to pass. 

The menu changed this week with new seasonal items including an apple and pear flatbread that supplemented our onion rings, margherita flatbread, and fried pickles.

The beer menu offered a pumpkin/yam beer called Pie Fight from Dorchester Brewing. The intriguing brew was described as a pumpkin spiced amber ale, and it was served with a sugared rim that tasted like apple. Very nice. It was a delicious fall flavor.

As usual, the opinions on the book were varied, and each os us liked something about it. The big surprise was that the one person who often doesn’t care for the book liked this one. I liked that the main character was a journalist and I could relate to her rifling through the paper looking for her article. It sent me back to my year as a writer for a paper when I did the same thing every Wednesday. The pay wasn’t great but the bylines almost made up for it. 

After the book chat we moved onto movies made from books, ancestry research, how the newspapers in the 1890s and early 1900s were the social media of the time with stories of who traveled where and sordid tales of messy divorces and family drama. Always a fun time.

Now there is a big lag before the next meeting. Our November week falls on election day and our meeting place is downtown election central, so the next meeting isn’t until December. That will leave plenty of time to catch up on non-book club books, and there are a lot of those. Now, to decide where to begin, and get through the rest of the week with the now upside down schedule.