Speaking of TJs raviolis, my son has developed a crack-like attachment to the Mac N Cheezy Rays. Not my cup of tea but I get the appeal for a 10 year old boy.

I spent a half hour trying to get four people in three countries on the same call, and then ended up rescheduling for a half-hour after that. Luckily, the new time actually worked.

The people behind it spend a lot of time talking in code words that add up to "let's make a white enclave in a majority-black county."

Lovely.

Ha, Teppy, I have gotten NO junk mail about the legalize it issue! Clearly [Your Neighborhood] is the nexus of pot-smoking voters in the city.

I can't decide what to vote about the parks levy. I like parks, but they seem to have a corruption problem, and also, this is the mayor's baby and I hate him.

Ha, Teppy, I have gotten NO junk mail about the legalize it issue! Clearly [Your Neighborhood] is the nexus of pot-smoking voters in the city.

I wondered how the mail-bombing campaign shook out. Color me unsurprised.

I can't decide what to vote about the parks levy. I like parks, but they seem to have a corruption problem, and also, this is the mayor's baby and I hate him.

I'm voting no, because the levy gives the mayor a blank check and he can appoint a parks board without any input from city council, so he can basically do what he wants to the parks, which could turn out very badly. And also I hate the mayor, too. To my unending shame, I voted for him and he turned out to be a giant Tino.

Heavy candy day in my office. Not for me, so far, but there's been a spike in people coming to my desk just so they can get some candy.

I've been stressing out about my Halloween treat buying this year because I, and more importantly my kids, read about the use of child slave labor by Hersheys, Mars, and Nestle. Ugh! What's left? But I need to have something to give away, we get too many T-or-Ters, so I finally cobbled together an assortment of Goldfish, Oreos, and various sugary candies to give away. I am assuming that those companies are probably also owned by same corporations as own the other 3, since there are only about 5 processed food companies in like the whole world, but oh well. Plausible deniability, and I can give out treats.

That's pretty cool that your kids are so socially responsible.

It comes in fits and starts, -t, but in this case the news was just so close to the holiday

I am the same way, responsible in fits and starts and mostly about the last thing I heard about. Better than nothing.

I am wearing my pink jillifont shirt (with my pleather skirt which is totally not taking Tep's advice at all, but Halloween Week! (I hear this in my head in the Dean's voice, and followed shortly by "All Saints' Day Month!")) and it's earworming me with David Bowie. Took me a while to figure out why - I guess my subconscious figures the spiders from Mars are pink (and is not particular about what song it's going to keep singing after those lyrics as long as it's Bowie)

Burrell, maybe something like these chocolate squares?

Also, awwwww. Your kids are good peeps.