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Is that John's house? Maybe the neighborhood kids know things about him that you don't...There's that, yes.I feel like I am failing at Halloween. I have every light on and the door wide open and the trick-or-treaters keep walking past my house. I think it is because the house is set so far back from the road and it has lots of doors, so people are just too confused to bother.Or they've seen too many horror/slasher movies and aren't falling for the obvious trap.
Or maybe I DO know...
Ahh. I found the switch for the porch light for the door I never use and have turned it on. Now the floodgates have opened.
John had better bring more candy home with him.
Well that's just ripe for innuendo.
But sounds like you had a nice night.
Are you following a two sleep schedule? I have heard of them, but never known someone to pursue it.Anyway, hope you feel better. Did you have to reschedule the interview? Do you think they were okay with that?
Yes, this interview is with a recruiter, not with a mark... I mean, potential employer. I don't think it's a problem. I may have to put them off until next week. It's unbelievable that I have this fever with as much ibuprofen as is in my system.
My sleep schedule got kind of screwed up between Puffin working strange hours, our housemate working normal ones, and the dogs needing to get up and go out every morning. So I typically sleep in two stretches, one about four hours and the other 2-4, depending. I get up in the middle and make coffee, do dog maintenance, surf the web, write, chat with our roommate and see her off to work. Then I go back to bed and get up with the Puffin when he goes to work a couple of hours later. It's been shockingly easy to fall in to and I'm waking spontaneously now around 4 a.m. I go back to bed by 8 and am up around 10.
Oops, trick or treaters are here. Time to lock up the dogs.
Good night...
Are you following a two sleep schedule? I have heard of them, but never known someone to pursue it.Anyway, hope you feel better. Did you have to reschedule the interview? Do you think they were okay with that?
Yes, this interview is with a recruiter, not with a mark... I mean, potential employer. I don't think it's a problem. I may have to put them off until next week. It's unbelievable that I have this fever with as much ibuprofen as is in my system.
My sleep schedule got kind of screwed up between Puffin working strange hours, our housemate working normal ones, and the dogs needing to get up and go out every morning. So I typically sleep in two stretches, one about four hours and the other 2-4, depending. I get up in the middle and make coffee, do dog maintenance, surf the web, write, chat with our roommate and see her off to work. Then I go back to bed and get up with the Puffin when he goes to work a couple of hours later. It's been shockingly easy to fall in to and I'm waking spontaneously now around 4 a.m. I go back to bed by 8 and am up around 10.
Oops, trick or treaters are here. Time to lock up the dogs.
Gah, and your avatar looks so sad too :(
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We went to check out our neighbor's place. He has gone all out. His lawn is an absolute horror scene with zombies, demons, and cannibals everywhere, all shrouded in mist from his fog machine. He waits behind a curtain to jump out at passersby in his demon costume. His little daughter had fantastic corpse makeup too.
When we got there, a kid was running away screaming for his parents to let him hide in the car.
F%*~ing awesome.
I've only had two groups so far.
Observation: Kids don't say "Trick or Treat" anymore.
Mine does. He also says thank you. Most of the time. That was actually a pleasant change this year. I only had to remind him twice. :)
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Good evening to all my beloved FAWTLY Brethren! I hope you all had a good Halloween and placated the demons to ensure a good harvest!
Mine was better than I thought it would be. Got some stuff done at work that needed to get done. Got out of work in time enough to make it over to the church for the trick or treat celebration. The weather cleared up.
I would have taken the boy walking, but the wife was sore and tired after a long day of being pregnant, so I had to hang around to give out the candy. Charlie enjoyed helping me do that.
Had a blast taking the kidlet trick or treating in the rain. The weather was miserable but he had so much fun it was worth it. He went as a ninja so I dressed up as a pirate. And now I'm trying to wrangle a hyper kidlet who has had much too much sugar into getting ready for bed. It's going about as well as you'd expect. :)
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I have candy for the childrens and booze for me
this is like my first evening with nothing to do in a dog's age
so I am spending it well by drinking and doing push ups
also it is a good excuse to wear a viking helmet
I'll take your word for it, I mean the part about the viking helmet that is.
...do you want to see my Viking helmet, Blue Pigeon?
Do you?
I have candy for the childrens and booze for me
this is like my first evening with nothing to do in a dog's age
so I am spending it well by drinking and doing push upsalso it is a good excuse to wear a viking helmet
You need an excuse for that?
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sorry I do not live in a country where it is acceptable to galavant about in a longboat and pillage others
gooood morning FaWtL,
Sabines cousin with husband and son (Sabines Godson) are vzisting us for 3 days, so full house,
today we take the boy (he is 8) while his parents go to Frankfurt for a shopping trip
we will take him to Ronneburg Castle and to a small Animal park, should be fun
Nice and quiet last night. Our cul-de-sac doesn't have any little kids so we didn't get many trick-or-treaters, which is for the best because we didn't have any candy.
We did get a small group early in the night, unexpectedly, so we ended up turning off most of the lights in the house to let further groups (if any showed up - I only noticed this one because they were playing around on our yard and the neighbor's yard and being noisy about it) know we didn't have anything to offer.
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sorry I do not live in a country where it is acceptable to galavant about in a longboat and pillage others
You have my sympathies.
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No fever today, so I'll head out to the interview this afternoon. I can swing by MicroCenter and pick up a snazzy new headset, too. My old one broke and my UI review customers are saying that the volume is going in and out and they can't understand my evaluations. So I need a new headset. My current choice: SteelSeries Siberia V2.
DO EET TREPPA!!!!!
My favorite part of halloween, leftover candy.
Also candy on sale pretty much everywhere this weekend
Mine does. He also says thank you. Most of the time. That was actually a pleasant change this year. I only had to remind him twice. :)I've only had two groups so far.
Observation: Kids don't say "Trick or Treat" anymore.
Next year teach him to say "May The Gods Of The Underworlds Spare Your Soul, Kind Mortal".
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90 more words for revision of Yggdrasil submission needed...
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Revision finished and sent. Going to sleep now.
...do you want to see my Viking helmet, Blue Pigeon?
Do you?
Is that the helmet that has the horns stiking on the inside?
And morning again. Why do they come so often?
Jude commented on Charlie's Jake picture last night.
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Trick or Treating with a 3 year old was a lot of fun. Jude ran from house to house tried to open everyone's door, and rang the doorbell multiple times. He also managed to mix Happy Halloween and Trick or Treat so he said Halloween Treats at every house. Then when he got candy he would say "Thank you much!", which usually got him more candy.
Amazingly, Charlie's reaction to our friend has not been one of shyness.
Jude seems to be finishing up that stage, before that anyone he didn't see on a regular basis got the shy reaction.
Apparently I'm the opposite. Parents tell me I was super outgoing as a kid and would just walk up and hug random strangers and such. The older I've gotten the more withdrawn I've become.
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hi everyone,
guests have left again, I brought my old Lego from the cellar for the boy - I guess I will build a huge Lego starship before I will bring it down again :-)
tonight we will see Thor2
One of the guard dogs at John's work died yesterday (he was a very old dog). John was very broken up last night. He knew that dog since it was a puppy.
sorry to hear that. I'm no dog person, but its damn hard when our furry children get old and pass on us.
One of the guard dogs at John's work died yesterday (he was a very old dog). John was very broken up last night. He knew that dog since it was a puppy.
Condolences. That can be a hard loss.
Sorry I cant catch up 232 posts, but I hope everyone is doing well.
Today (September 29) is a special day. Yes, it is a Sunday and yes, it's five weeks to the day that I'll be participating in the Walk to End Alzheimer's. However, today marks the sixth anniversary of Mom's death due to Alzheimer's disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
I still remember vividly getting the phone call at 2:45 a.m. that alerted us to Mom's passing. I woke up my brother, who had just flown in from Colorado Springs the night before and who had not had a chance to see Mom, much less say goodbye. Then we called Dad, who at the time was living in a duplex near by. None of us could go back to sleep so we went and picked up Dad and had a mini-wake until about 5:30 a.m. when the lack of sleep hit.
But I have to tell you that we had already lost Mom several years before as Alzheimer's took over her mind. So the loss of Mom's body, while terribly sad, was almost a relief. We already had lost Mom's fierce intellect, her compassion and her strong sense of independence. Instead, we had watched Mom think she was in a busy airport concourse when in reality she was by the nurse's station. We heard her talking about going back to the hotel room when she was actually heading back to her room in the nursing home. We calmed her when she talked about almost being a "crispy critter" due to a fire in the nursing home courtyard (which, in actuality, was a report of a fire in West Texas that she had seen on the news). I kept a calm demeanor when Mom told me that I wasn't her daughter; that, instead, I was her niece.
Not that it's easy to watch any disease take away your loved one, but I found that Alzheimer's is especially cruel by taking the loved one away piece by piece. And that's why I hope you'll help me by supporting my effort in the Walk to End Alzheimer's, which is scheduled for Sunday. Nov. 3. Any donation -- whether $5 or $500 -- will help. Here's the link to use if you want to make an online donation. Or if you want to send a check in, you can print off the form using the link.
Again, thank you so much in helping provide support to people who have Alzheimer's and their caregivers, as well as research dollars to find a cure!
If you make a donation please leave a Paizo or FAWTL tag.
I will match all such donations dollar for dollar up to $500 total.
Thanks again!
I watched Princess Bride tonight. Great movie. If only princess was more assertive and active to avoid falling to that old princess is to be rescued shtick...
Silly rabbit, if that happened, there would be no quest.