I typically write a year in review style piece around this time. After all, the year is almost over. Though I may still write a more critical piece, as I often do, I thought it might be fun this year, especially on this "day of thanks," to write about some of my victories in 2017.

It's now November, which means it's time to really start thinking about cool and fun gifts for your friends. Whether it's Christmas or Hannukah or Kwanza, you should get them something fun.

I continue to be suspended from Twitter with no information or end in sight. Fantastic. I had a great weekend and wanted to cover a few quick topics today.How 'bout them Astros: This was a rough baseball season.

Final Final: Last night was a pretty big deal for me at work. We declared Final for The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs, which is a project some of us have been working on for years. Typically an expansion is about one year, but Cats & Dogs requires a fundamental overhaul of our engine to allow for quadripedal movement (among other things) and it's a really long haul.