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Yes, November! How did that happen? We’re back from a lovely 10 days in California, and what better way to ring in November than to relive the best of October?

- Weather! Glorious weather! Not a day without sunshine over the entire 10-day trip.
- The conference was brilliant. I think I’ve mentioned here before that this is a conference I’ve “watched” from afar for a few years (conference blogging is a wondrous thing) and it was such a delight to actually be there this year. I gleaned at least one new tidbit from every session I attended and I got the chance to meet and hang out with some super people, some for the first time, others not. Rock!
- Fresh clam chowder in sour dough bowls and salt water taffy on the pier in Monterey.
- Driving from Monterey to Big Sur in a convertible. I reserved the car on travel points a few weeks before the trip and when the customer service person suggested a convertible, my initial reaction was “you’ve got to be kidding me!” (I’m not much of a convertible type). But then the mister said, “hey, yeah, let’s get a convertible” and I’m so glad we did. Did I mention the glorious weather? Have you seen the pictures?
- In San Francisco, early morning cable car rides to Fisherman’s Wharf.
- A relaxed, happy, funny mister by my side the whole way. He’s had a wickedly stressful few months and he’s been looking forward to this break for ages. It was so nice to have a relaxed mister again!
- A sign (above) on a subway car in San Francisco that read “Thank You Knitting, Needlepointing and Crocheting Riders!” Brilliant!

So, back to November. If you’ve been visiting these pages for a while, you will know that I’ve spoken about NaNoWriMo before, more than once, in fact. Guess what? I’m not doing it again this year! But, guess what? I am doing NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month for those of you who are click-lazy, like me)! I’ve been hopelessly neglectful of this blog for far too long and I miss it, so how about a commitment to daily posts for the next 30 days? I’m going to have a real go at this, with real, coherent, appropriately strung-together words posted every day (no picture-only posts! Although that’s not against the rules) because I really want to use it as an opportunity to write (just write!) again, something I have been dearly missing for a while.

Content, imagine! If you think you can stand it, why not join me? Because the opposite of misery? It loves company too!