Seasonal Festivities

FB has the use of at least alerting me to my sister's social doings before they happen, so this morning I bicycled up to her church's fall fair to check it out. The usual fall fair stuff available, but not alas those useful handicrafted thingies I can only find at church fairs, like booties and fabric glasses cases and individual cards. Weighed getting Iain Banks' Wasp Factory from the used books section but decided against it: my mood has been tending to apocalyptic and Banks never helps. To show willing, put my bid in for a silent auction item that I don't really want and evidently didn't get; bought a package of sugar cookies but not the pie I was tempted by, and a package of maple-something cheese for next door, and some wretched indulgence which I will talk more about below.
( But first a digression )