I am not giving anything for Halloween. We usually get around 200 kids between 530pm and 10pm and J and I take turns staying out on the porch so our dogs don't go nuts. I am on my own, wont get home until after six and need to feed and walk the pups, who have been out in the yard all day. I can't deal with the mishegas, so I am holing up in the back of the house like a grinch. NO CANDY FOR ANYONE.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Oct 31, 2014 11:10:25 am PDT #9362 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
tommyrot - Oct 31, 2014 11:10:58 am PDT #9363 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Wow.
ETA: regarding flooded LSD news.
meara - Oct 31, 2014 11:38:55 am PDT #9364 of 30000
Aww. It's OK, Scrappy.
I will not get any trick or treaters--I don't think there's many in my immediate neighborhood anyway, but especially since my house is BEHIND another house...I'd have to like, put up a whole trail of lighted pumpkins or something, arrows pointing "CANDY HERE!"
sarameg - Oct 31, 2014 11:58:20 am PDT #9365 of 30000
One of my neighbors stopped by because she knew I'd get her costume: she was carrying protest signs reading " down with stuff!" and "Annihilate Matter!"
Antimatter, naturally.
Consuela - Oct 31, 2014 12:11:29 pm PDT #9366 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Meara, I would use as many specifics as I could, because IME general comments like 'disorganized and bad communicator' just don't get the traction that specific incidents do.
Rick - Oct 31, 2014 12:16:35 pm PDT #9367 of 30000
My boys have already gone trick-or-treating at the Mall, Sorority row, a Freshman dorm, and the University Science Fest on different days in the last week, and the athletic department is staging a candy fest at the basketball arena tomorrow, so I don't think we will get any protest about skipping the cold and rain tonight.
One of my colleagues is a statistical geneticist, and he told me that, in planning their evening, his kids had worked out an equation for different neighborhoods, including parameters like average amount of candy per house (of obvious importance) and average distance between houses (also important but likely to be overlooked by those without an algorithm). These two parameters are negatively correlated, so the fit function is complex.
If they can work this up into an App there may be a future in it.
sarameg - Oct 31, 2014 12:18:51 pm PDT #9368 of 30000
It begins!
-t - Oct 31, 2014 12:19:06 pm PDT #9369 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That is awesome, Rick.
Jesse - Oct 31, 2014 12:24:07 pm PDT #9370 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So good, Rick!
I really hope I get trick or treaters, but I'm thinking it will be fewer than 10.
Man, this orthodontist business is annoying. I waited 15 minutes for my appointment today, which was....to look at the computer pictures of my teeth. I mean, yay cool whatever, but can we get this party started?? Three weeks from now we can.
meara - Oct 31, 2014 12:24:14 pm PDT #9371 of 30000
Meara, I would use as many specifics as I could, because IME general comments like 'disorganized and bad communicator' just don't get the traction that specific incidents do.
Yeah, I'm trying, but it's also hard to condense some of that (I did put in the "you don't need to cc the rest of the team if they have questions they can ask themselves" and the "Dora the Explorer" parts). Going back and forth on how much I want to put in there, too. But promised another team member I'd send her mine when I'm done so she can crib from it.