Month: October 2005

I hope the Great Pumpkin is very good to each and every one of you.

I got a rock.

Oh my goodness, if you live anywhere near Leominster and you haven’t visited the haunted house at 190 North Street, you are crazy. A local family has done up their huge back yard into a haunted “house” every year for 10 years…it’s amazing! And it’s actually free…at they end they collect for MDA and/or the Red Cross, but that’s all up to you.

Directions: Drive North on Route 13 toward Lunenburg. At the Kings Corner lights (where the CVS is on the right and the Weathervane is on the left) take a right onto North Street. The haunted yard is about 8 houses down on the right…don’t worry, you won’t miss it.

I’m sure Witches Woods out at Nashoba Valley Ski Area is great, but it’s $22 for an adult and might be a little too scary for the younger ones. This is scary but not too scary. And technically, it’s free. So go. I recommend it.

Okay, we’re into the stretch, people. If you haven’t done it already, it’s time to load up on candy to give out for Trick or Treat. And the weather looks good, so there will be plenty ‘o kids out and about. So have you gone to the store? What are you giving?

I just read in People Magazine that actor Andy Garcia gives out 10,000 pieces of candy each Halloween. Doesn’t that seem excessive to you? Trick or Treating is from 6pm to 8pm or so. Even if we allow an extra hour in whatever town he’s in…that’s 55 pieces of candy a minute, or almost 1 piece per second. Do they bus kids over to Andy’s house and then stand in line for an hour? I’m just not seeing 10,000, no matter how popular you are. And heaven forbid he’d giving out Bit ‘O Honey or something pointless like that.

Us, we’ve got several different items. Of course, Mr. Dump may work his way through one of the bags before Monday night. We have Hot Tamales (his favorite), Nerds, and Sour Patch Kids. I think we’ll be a pretty trendy house with that selection, but I don’t expect to hand out 10,000 of anything in two hours, unless ten kids show up and I give them 1000 pieces of candy each. Take that, Andy Garcia!

We just had a fire drill/false alarm. 2000 people schlepping out into the driving wind and rain. That was *awesome*! Next time, maybe there can be thunder and lightning and hail the size of baseballs!

Look, I have a long drive to work. 50 minutes or so. Today it is raining, and that means other people are going to park in the garage. I usually park in the garage not for the cover, but because it is the ONLY parking for people who work at my end of the building. We don’t have a ton of lots down at the far end of the building the way they do for the middle and other end. The garage is it for me. And other people who never park there take all the spaces.

So when I get behind some schmo going 5 to 10 MPH BELOW the speed limit for most of my commute…I can understand how road rage can make a person do something stupid. I so wanted to rear-end this guy at one point. The speed limit was 50 and he was doing 40. 40! I don’t care if it’s raining, 10 MPH below the speed limit should be cause for immediate arrest. The road was wet, not covered with ice and snow and dead skunks and potholes. It’s a long, straight road. If you are too afraid to drive your widdle Chevy Impala (bah!) closer to the speed limit, keep your fat butt at home. Some of us have someplace to get in the morning, and you are blocking the frigging road.

Grr.

(I wish NaNoWriMo had already started, because that guy would now be having the worst things happen to him on paper…)