Nov. 3 Run: Commonplace Coffee on Forbes in Squirrel Hill

This Sunday various group members will be running in the 10-mile EQT race, so the rest will start at our default location at Commonplace Coffee, heading to parts unknown.  NB: time change day, so you have an extra hour to sleep in.

Last Sunday the hovering darkness at 7 a.m. made the barely visible path into the Schenley forest reminiscent of Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, so we headed over to the road, behind Phipps and up onto the green (now actually brownish-red) roof of its new Platinum LEEDS Certified classroom building.  From which we watched an incandescent sunrise over Oakland under a turquoise sky and a reeling, cawing murder of crows.  (Wendy reminded me of that terrific word.)

Discussed later on:
Glasses vs. contacts vs. bifocal contacts vs. lasik - undecided
Used clothes - Plato's Closet - and the color-coding system at Red, White, and Blue - and the fact that Vietnam Veterans Donations will pick up from your house.
Empty nests - how long does it take to get happy about it? Less time if you start doing things like:

• Joining the Pittsburgh Meet-Up Hiking Group
• Taking the Carrie Blast Furnace Tour  (oops, over for the year - remember for next Spring)
• Binge TV:  The Paradise; The Americans; Scandal; the Sarah Palin movie
• the Moth - don't forget! - second Tuesday of the month at the Rex Theater
• creative running - as follows:

Lest you are missing our special theme runs (and give us a break: we just visited a Giant Duck) a number of ideas are brewing.  Jan is investigating a run through new developments in Hazelwood; I've got a StepTrek map of the South Side; and Virginia has been looking at the 90 Neighborhoods blog with the idea of hitting all of them. Since we've moseyed through a good number already, we will need to figure out what's left - and this means a spreadsheet.  Let the nerds among us begin...