Our house has been long overdue for a window cleaning. And with ashes from recent wildfires hindering our solar production, we hired professionals to clean our windows and solar panels ahead of the holidays. The month-long Black Friday sales gave us a chance to replace our defunct dishwasher with a newer model that featured a nifty third rack, and upgrade our TV for 70% more surface area, double the refresh rate, and quadruple the resolution. At work, I took advantage of my allocation accrual to upgrade to the new SQ2 model of the Surface Pro X, which sports an ARM-based processor that prioritizes speed and energy efficiency over software compatibility. I was very pleased with the lack of fan noise and ease of being always on, although I needed a dbrand skin to hide the fingerprint magnet coating. We spent November revisiting our sci-fi craves, uncovering the fate of the Federation in Star Trek Discovery, the name of baby Yoda in the Mandalorian, and the identity of the explorer in His Dark Materials. We also tried out new cuisines nearby, including Hainanese chicken at Chicken Hawkers, lamb kabobs at Stand Up Kabob, crawfish boil at Cajun Feast, and chicken kabuli at House of Shah. We spent our Thanksgiving warming up with slipper socks and hot pot while staying mostly indoors to set up our Christmas tree, holiday lights, and the new TV. With Westley still tentative about watching movies, we introduced him instead to MasterChef Junior, with the hope of instilling a shared interest in the culinary arts … or at least a shared love of food.