We had about five trick or treater; they included one ickle Batman barely big enough to walk, Daddy dressed as Robin.
Also Cable (but not internet on the same wire) is down until they can fix it Tuesday. The tech who diagnosed it was having trouble with the servers in the Comcast tech support office.
Excuse: Washington State is getting unusually heavy wind and rain. Umm Comcast techm Washington State gets at least a few days of wind and rain this heavy every year. Much heavier than this every few years or so. Also: I know you have zero responsibility for the failings of your company, so I did not put you on the spot by bad-mouthing them to you. Why do you have to make excuses in response to a friendly hello followed by a straightforward description of the symptoms and error messages?
Finally, after the 19th excuse, my "its all good" attitude wore thin, and I snapped to the point of saying (still I think in a friendly tone of voice) "So Comcast equipment is like cut lettuce?It wilts if left out in the rain?"
We had swarms of trick or treaters, but we live across the street from a house that goes all-out, up to stationing people around the yard to provide extra jump scares.
I was wearing a witchy dress and a hooded velvet cloak, and stood on the front stairs. The best part of the night was when a group of adults walked by on the street; one of them pointed me out and commented about "Creepy decoration!"
Then I turned my head. Two grown men took a few steps back and said "FUUUUCK". I win!
That's fantastic!
So I did end up having fun at the reception -- my miscellaneous table was great! And the food was great. AND they gave out candy as their favor! Good one.
Timelies all!
Lazy Sunday morning here.
The day's plan was a quick target run, pick up the dog, and then spend the day dealing with laundry and cleaning out some closets, plus take down Halloween. Now though, most of that may be replaced with trying to sleep off the cold I woke up with.
I spent yesterday on the closet clean out and general reorg, so today I have to deal with the detritus of all that.
We are watching the Lions play the Chiefs in London. (American) Football all day, with the culmination being Packers at Broncos tonight (go Pack!). The Lions really aren't playing to the their potential this year - it's disheartening. M has given up and has started making breakfast. I'm wallowing on the couch - it's more and more difficult to move. Peanut can show up any time now.
I didn't even buy candy to have at home this year, just at the office (the kids came Trick-or-treating Friday afternoon). Yesterday I just locked Walter and the cats inside and went on a cemetery tour with my parents, which was super interesting. Dates back to 1851 a and had some locally notable inhabitants and some really interesting monuments -we will have to back during daylight hours sometime and get a good look, now that I know how to do that. The guide told us that they had a wedding earlier in the day, so someone got married in a cemetery on Halloween. I'm impressed.
(American) Football all day
The Bengals are 6-0, and they play the Steelers
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today. I have a lot of work to do (hooray, freelancing), but I'm going to watch at least the last half of the game.
