Happy Birthday Daniel!
Happy Anniversary to the House of Reason!
Half the electricians at today's focus were dressed as pirates. If I'd known, I would've brought my hook!
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
Natter 61*
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
aurelia - Oct 31, 2008 3:53:26 pm PDT #7779 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 31, 2008 3:53:32 pm PDT #7780 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I did the early voting thing today before work. On a paper ballot so as to avoid having my vote disappear into the ether if any improprieties occur.
Of the two main mayoral candidates, the Republican has been publicly kneeling in prayer for a win at fundraisers and press events, while the Democrat is pulling in money and staff from outside the state and running ads with exclusively WASPish pinched-face people telling me that he supports OUR values (the implication being not those of those other people with their unsightly melanin or dangerous not-being-married-with-kids-that-go-to-Sunday-school ways). So I probably wasted my vote by casting it for the other candidate with city council experience who didn't put me off with his campaigning.
Barb - Oct 31, 2008 3:58:35 pm PDT #7781 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
::waves tiredly::
Trick or Treating has been accomplished with the help of a travel mug of Shiraz.
This is just simply the most painful holiday for me since it incorporates two things that leave me wanting to curl up in a teeny little ball in the corner: walking in the dark and knocking on strangers' doors. Luckily, I don't have to knock any more and I'm not such a loser parent that I've infected my kids with my phobias, so they have absolutely no reservations over the door knocking thing.
But much candy was achieved as was much cuteness. Abby was a witch and Nate was a gladiator-- in sneakers. But there was a Big Sword which was his main objective anyway.
You can't tell from the photograph, but Abby's tights looked like spiderwebs. She was quite pleased.
sarameg - Oct 31, 2008 4:06:41 pm PDT #7782 of 10001
God your kids are great, Barb.
I'm loving the halloween pictures.
My big boss was talking about his neighborhood today. There's something like 140 kids in it. And it is a 'hood tradition that the adults all set up adult trick or treats too. So following the kids around are parents with 'lil red wagons of...beer (and non-alcoholic treats, like appetizers.) And at his house, there is always hot cider for the kids...but also rum for those adults who wish to spike their cider, and wine for those who don't want cider. They had a new neighbor move in last year, just before Halloween. Boss's house was her first stop with the kids and she proclaimed loudly "I LOVE THIS NEIGHBORHOOD!"
It sounds like a nice 'hood.
Jesse - Oct 31, 2008 4:07:03 pm PDT #7783 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Cuties!
Barb - Oct 31, 2008 4:07:32 pm PDT #7784 of 10001
“Not dead yet!”
And eeeep! Dylan is SO fierce and adorable!
meara - Oct 31, 2008 4:09:20 pm PDT #7785 of 10001
So I talked to my parents on the phone last night. My dad was like "yeah, your mom voted, but I'm going to cancel her out!"
My mom said "I early voted. Your DAD hasn't voted yet. And you know, he's not in the best of health. HE MIGHT NOT MAKE IT to vote. He could be sick!! We can keep hoping!" Heh. We are sick and twisted in my family. (Dad is voting McCain)
Apparently, having heard that lines were like, three hours long on the first day of early voting (in Indiana!), mom thought "What would [meara] do?" and brought a book to stand in line. Good thing--on Day 2 of early voting, she had to wait an hour and a half. She said she got in line, and cracked open her book, and the woman in front of her said "Oh, that's a good idea, I wish I'd brought one!" And mom said "Hah, well, I could read it to you"...jokingly...and the woman said "OK!" And mom ended up reading to her and the woman behind her for like, five chapters. I thought that was hysterical! (Apparently it was some book about a doctor who treated AIDS patients in Haiti, so it wasn't, like, a trashy romance or something, but still)
Thus ends your latest report from the front lines of voting!
Tom Scola - Oct 31, 2008 4:13:05 pm PDT #7786 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
How does Robinson Crusoe keep his leather pants so clean when he's stranded on a desert island?
sarameg - Oct 31, 2008 4:15:43 pm PDT #7787 of 10001
meara, that's awesome of your mom. I'm totally taking a book (no early voting here, and despite being a state very certainly blue, I'm expecting HOPING the turnout will be crazy).... maybe I'll take a few spare Monitors and Nat'l Geographics in for fellow liner-uppers. I suck at reading aloud.
msbelle - Oct 31, 2008 4:15:47 pm PDT #7788 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
we survived neighborhood trick or treating. 3- 4pm was great. 4:30-5 was a bit hectic - then we ducked into BK for dinner. Then bagged on watching the parade (side note - this is supposed to be a Children's Parade. It is the largest Children's Parade in NYC, but needless to say by 5pm some adults were in costumes that were totally in appropriate. For example, the orange jumpsuited "erectional facility" costume) and came home to play PS2. One friend was here until about 7pm and then another stopped by until 7:45. That never happens - I wish it would more often - I love kids coming to our place.
One really fun thing was two older residents in our building had trick or treat stuff and one, a couple, made the boys do a trick to get their treat. hilarious.