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Thanksgiving went pretty well. My brother-in-law apparently spent days preparing the meal we ate, and he is ridiculously good at cooking; turkey is anything but dry and tasteless when he cooks it. My sister warned my mother right before her in-laws arrived not to talk about politics, and she thinks her sister-in-law gave a similar warning to her husband, the sort of man who stayed home on Election Day last year after his teenage daughters told him they'd never talk to him again if he voted for Trump. (That he was furloughed for two weeks then forced to work without pay for another month apparently has not affected his views.) The talk did actually descend into Trump bashing during dessert, but only the husband wasn't against him, and he wisely kept his mouth shut, so it was fine. I ended up swapping a few tales of high school and college experiences with the daughters, although things have changed a lot in the pair of decades that have passed since then.
Since then it's mostly been hiding from the cold, which arrived on Thursday and seems like it's going to stay for at least some time. I am not looking forward to having to run to the dry cleaners this afternoon.