Ear buds is good advice. I don't use them for this reason, but I find it helps keep some panhandlers away as well.

Got a promotion. Maybe can survive how expensive this area is now.

Obviously fall colors

You want to create an account with the irs, social security, etc so the account us first in your name, email, phone number. If a scammer does it first it could get quite complicated to fix and more damage could be done

As someone dealing with identity theft right now, I HIGHLY recommend you go start putting protection in place just in case. You're probably fine but you don't want to risk it:

• go lock your credit at all 3 agencies
• consider also locking at the banking/utility agencies like chexsystems, lexisnexis, nctue (see here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IdentityTheft/comments/uvv3ij/psa_freezing_your_three_main_credit_reports_is/)

You prob don't need to go crazy freezing everything, but IMO i'd at least freeze the credit and go register for the critical accounts now (social security, IRS, all 3 credit agencies). You don't want someone to beat you to it.