My brother-in-law has announced that he's staging a late American Thanksgiving dinner today. I hope that just means he's baked a pumpkin pie and intends to roast a turkey; I'm not sure I could face that dish of mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows on it.

I have been tasked to bring Brussels sprouts and wine. The wine makes sense, but are Brussels sprouts canonical?

In other news, Richie the plumber has completed his work at my house and the net results are two new sections of copper pipe in the cellar, a dry floor in the laundry room, and a new kitchen sink faucet that works much better than its elegant predecessor and cost a third as much, including the tax.