Let’s start with leftovers from yesterday.

Commenter Kevin Kim asked to see the fruit salad I made for the barn party. Here’s what remains.

If you want to see the sausage salad being made, you can check out step-by-step pics of a previous batch I made here.

I’m writing this at 0200 so I’m obviously still not sleeping through the night. I did check my Fitbit sleep stats and with the exception of my Wednesday travel day where I slept less than three hours, I’ve been getting my fairly normal five or six of sleep. They are just coming in bits and pieces lately. This too shall pass.

I received the hiking socks I ordered from Amazon today and had to laugh.

Made is South Korea! What are the odds?

That’s my story!

One of the things I’ve been doing while I’m not sleeping is getting a taste of some of the comfort foods I’ve been missing. Did the Waffle House breakfast, had a 5 Guys burger, and yesterday I went to Rush’s…

…And got my favorite wing fix on.

Honestly though, nothing has been quite as good as I remembered.

It was a beautiful day yesterday so I got my lazy ass out for a 1.5 hour walk around the neighborhood.

Ah, the peace and tranquility of a suburban stroll…

But seriously, my previous walks have been to shopping venues and this is not really a pedestrian friendly town. Hardly any sidewalks. So, I appreciated the quiet residential streets, and even the main road had those nice wide shoulders. It was really quite pleasant. Today I plan to visit a nearby state park–Sesquicentennial–which purportedly has some good long hiking trails (haha, I wasn’t much of a walker for all those years I lived here). Daughter Avery also reminded me that there are some nice walking paths along the Congaree riverside. At the least I should have some better pictures to post, right?

Still have some shopping to finish up, Halloween get together tomorrow night, and a weekend in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina are on tap.

Stay tuned!