The moon is beautiful tonight. Not quite a full moon but close enough to light my way. I walked home from my friends place where we watched a movie. The weather is so mild for this time of year. Almost eerily so. There's a very light wind blowing. The air is almost... muggy. Sound is muffled and the air seems thick as I walk by the schoolyard. It's very quiet.

I get out to the main street and I have to wait for a car. Only 1 car. Then I cross. I walk slowly as I cross the street.

Leaves have fallen on the sidewalk again at this spot. Even though there's a pile of them that someone has raked up. They can't keep up at the moment. The leaves left on the sidewalk seem loud as I walk on, over and through them. I don't want to be loud. I want to be quiet. But it's okay. Across the street is a house with Halloween decorations up. Pretty orange strings of light. My mind wanders (even more.)

...this whole diatribe is/was playing in my head as I walked home. I remember consciously thinking that phrase to myself: "My mind wanders." You're not quite getting the play-by-play but certainly the jist. This is a rare peek into 8 - 10 minutes of my train of thought, roughly sequential. Back to it...

I need to get new shoes. These aren't very comfortable to walk in anymore. To do anything in anymore. That's been the case for too long. A matter of months, maybe? I know I've had my current 2 pairs of tennis shoes for over a year. 2 pair so I can rotate them. I bought them in Kirkland on my lunch break. I was still working my old job. I took extra time for lunch 'cause it was a slow day. I bought them from a chatty fellow named Cameron. One of those people you run into that you feel an instant kinship with. We could have talked for hours. We'll never meet again. He made an impression, obviously. Not for the reasons you're thinking.

It keeps feeling like it's going to rain but it doesn't. The forecast doesn't call for it either. Now I'm back home. Spider-web. Open and close the gate quietly. Impossible.