Today is a perfect fall day. Sunny, crisp, and the trees in all their colors. We’re going out to the country get our free pumpkin thanks to UW Hosptial. In exchange for lousy hours, deceitful hiring practices, and needlessly restrictive vacation policies, the good folks at UW Hospital give hard working nurses like Amy one free pumpkin annually.

We just celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary this past week on Wednesday. We dropped about $150 on a big dinner at Johnny Delmonicos Wednesday. It was a lovely night about but we just didn’t feel like we got our money’s worth. Last time we dropped that much dosh on dinner was at Cutters Bayhouse in Seattle but there the food was fantastic and the restaurant looked out across the Puget Sound to the Olympic Mountains. We feel like the high quality, relatively low cost of nice dinners in Chicago may have forever spoiled us. (sigh)

Reality check: Wisconsin football 8-0. Yes, that’s 8-0. Road wins over Purdue and Ohio State. Once again, that’ s the University of Wisconsin-Madison football team, eight wins, zero losses.