Toronto got a lot of press in November as our mayor put us in the world’s media lens due to his notoriety. He admitted to smoking crack, and his drunken antics were replayed around the world. Not surprisingly, city business was interrupted. Rob Ford didn’t loose his job, but he was stripped of most of his power until the next election. He might win the next election still, he still has a lot of support in the city!

This month (coinciding when with I got the Nexus 5), I decided to stop, cold turkey, playing two games that I had been playing – while I had been kind of unhappy with Happy Street, it was still fun (they added more new content). I also stopped playing Cookie Clicker. I just felt it was time to stop playing those and try some new ones.

Even though it was one whole month before Christmas, it felt like retailers were gearing up for it! There were a bunch of ridiculous shopping deals. We even went down to Grove City for Black Friday (weekend!). This is probably the latest time that we’ve driven down there. We just missed a large snow storm and fortunately the weather shouldn’t be too cold (we had some real winter weather in November this year).