In which our hero travels a great distance to have lunch, though he probably won't talk much about that.

September and October were a greyscale fog, highlighted only by crystal pink moments of playing my Goodwill Dreamcast and googooing at our calico white, orange and black-spotted kitty. Occasionally pierced red by heartrending anxiety about her post-August recovery from kitty pneumonia.

She came with the name: Hope.

Step One: Know Yourself.