askye, he is the cutest pirate ever.

My feeling is that the toddlers really have no idea what's going on, and mostly seem confused by the whole thing.

"I thought I wasn't supposed to talk to strangers and eat lots of candy! And I guess it's okay when YOU draw with marker all over my face, huh?"

My fave of the littles was a little pumpkin, about 3, who just held out his pail and said, "Please?" I said, "Can you say 'Trick or Treat'?" He said, "Yes," but nothing more.

You didn't ask him to say it, you just asked if he could!

One small Darth Vader silently held out his plastic pumpkin and didn't seem to know what to do next. When I asked "What do you say?" he enthusiastically shouted "Thank you!"

Hi, I'm back. Love all the pics of Halloween cuties!

I went out to Frenchmen St. with D last night for costume ogling, no trick or treaters for me. D wore a dress shirt, tie, vest, suit jacket and fedora; and VERY SHORT rugby shorts,tube socks, and converse. He told people he was business above, party below, but I think Business Casual is funnier. The best part is that friends would walk up on the crowded street and talk to him for minutes at a time before glancing down. I laughed all night long.

Favorite costume seen - Jesus on a dinosaur. Tons of superheroes of various ages, genders, races, and level of costume difficulty. One Bane. Spotted an Eleventh Doctor and hollered "Fezzes are cool" at him. One "binders of women." A pair of drag Effie Trinkets. A Saints Boba Fett "Bounty Hunter" (pic on fb). Etc, etc. We packed it in earlyish, due to the week night

I reused my "Wonder Woman on a day off costume." easy, comfy, and unique, if not dramatic.

The pics are adorable. Looks like we had 2 dinosaurs from the board. And the cutest pirate! I want to see pics of the nun costume. Just saying.

Me? It seems I passed out, shortly after posting. I'm guessing around 8pm. Holy cow that is early for me! Half awoke at 9, thought it was 9am and started to panic, then checked my phone and it said 20:58, and said cool, and fell back asleep. Woke at 2am, stumbled to bed. Slept thru a bunch of alarms, and woke about 8am. Thankfully my first meeting was at 11am, so not late for anything. Dear jeebus, my body was tired, or something.

I did nothing for Halloween! I suck at this holiday. It's OK though

You didn't ask him to say it, you just asked if he could!

Exactly! Since he answered the question I asked, he earned his goodies.

ION, I had to submit a help ticket this morning because I'm not allowed to install a plug-in I need to download a spec I requested. I just looked at the ticket, and it said I'm requesting "admin rites", so now I'm picturing robes and an athame, maybe a blood sacrifice just to get me access to the specification. Makes the whole process much more amusing than previously.

"I thought I wasn't supposed to talk to strangers and eat lots of candy! And I guess it's okay when YOU draw with marker all over my face, huh?"

Precisely!

I just looked at the ticket, and it said I'm requesting "admin rites", so now I'm picturing robes and an athame, maybe a blood sacrifice just to get me access to the specification.

Read privs are so much less dramatic than write privs.

I just had to give my password to IT - which is currently Jackass with some numbers attached. I was in a mood the last time password changey time came around.