After living in different time zones for the last 2 months, it feels odd to plan my day in ordinary Eastern Standard Time.

Deeply saddened to see high school friends Jim Bouchard and Janet Withington killed in a car crash Sat. night. Jim was a true gentle giant.

With our focus on terror, we have forgotten that a domestic terrorist named Oswald assassinated President Kennedy 52 years ago today.

You can’t make this stuff up: Man swings samurai sword at Apple Store screaming “I just want an iPhone!” twitter.com/daringfireball…

We survived the pre-Thanksgiving travel rush. Thrilled to be home with our cats in the house and the chickadees, and finches at the feeder.

Long security lines at SLC make me very glad we signed up for Global Entry/TSA Pre.

Charles Arthur has a nice update to the smartphone leaky bucket model. Markov models are great for that. theoverspill.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/and…

Congrats to Seth Moulton, our congressman who voted for refugees with his actions instead of against them with fear. bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/11/…

MIT Time Capsule from 1957 found. Filled with argon gas, its instructions are for it to be opened in 2957. news.mit.edu/2015/mitnano-t…