Morning!
Caffeine percolation in progress, and it actually seems like it might be a nice day despite the little raincloud icon on my PDA’s weather applet. A bit chilly, but it seems to be warming up a wee bit.
I stayed in during all the Halloween hubbub. I could hear it outside anyway, with kids screaming either in fright or because they’d just been given those vile little black-and-orange-wrapped malt/cod liver oil toffees. (I know those made me want to scream when I was a wee lad) Our building complex doesn’t let kids go door to door though; they set up a Halloween depot in the rental office building, in the party room. I saw it this morning when I dropped off the rent cheque, and it seems to have been decked out pretty heavily with the usual assortment of dollar store garb and cotton webbing and such. 
Has Halloween changed from when we were kids? 'Cos I seem to recall back in the day we’d head out at somewhere around 7, and we’d canvass something like the entire city block or more, staying out at least a couple of hours while we hit as many houses as humanly possible. The success of our haul was measured by the difficulty we had carrying it home; it just couldn’t be called a good Halloween if you weren’t a hair’s breadth away from herniating by the time you returned. I’m hearing from a lot of sources now though that there just aren’t as many kids going out, and a lot of the kids that do push the age curve up a few years. Plus, thanks to the day and age in which we live and the shift in daylight savings, it seems that going out while there is still light and returning shortly after it’s gone will become the norm. It’s a pity, as going out when it was dark was half the fun! How can you be spooked when you can see everything?
So now November’s here and, at least for us Canucks, the Christmas shopping season starts in earnest. My window lights will go up this evening. Yay! (Yes, I love Christmas, okay? Get thee hence, humbugs!)
Special1/Boo - Hey, uh … while you two are in there, d’ya think you could keep a casual eye out? My pet Huntsman spider got out of his tank again and I think he skittered into one of those rooms. Y’know … if you happen to have a spare moment. He likes vegetables.
Hank - [sub]How’s the head? See, I’m being the nice one this morning.[/sub]
GT - I had trouble sleeping again last night. Didn’t drift off 'til 2:30am. Of course, I didn’t get into bed 'til quarter after one, but still. I think the problem is that I didn’t feel truly tired enough to sleep, but I had to try anyway because if I stayed up later I’d wake up feeling like crap. Well, like more crap.
ETA: Woo! 5 is MINE!
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