Monday, November 01, 2004

Post-Halloween Monday Blues

Morning, gentlemen. When I came in this morning, I realized that I had left my electric coaster on over the weekend. Whenever I do that, the bottom of the cup gives me about the closest look to the surface of the sun-facing side of Mercury I'll ever see. Coffee or tea long-since dried up, burnt on, cracked and ancient on the bottom of the mug. A bit of a chore to clean up & prepare for a fresh cup.

The Halloweed Party was a success from the kids' point of view, and exhausting from ours. My stress level was sky high all night long, but we did manage to pull off pizza eating, a viewing of the Charlie Brown Halloween special, a trip through a "haunted house" (to see a ghost), some time spent around a backyard fire, and hallway trick or treating, as well as a few other assorted minor party activities. Donning the old Schlitz cardigan with a dress shirt and black tie underneath and combing my hair all the way over my head from just above the ear, I went as a Schlitz spokesman (from 1956).

Other hilight of the weekend was that I finally got a CD player for my car. Long, long, long overdue. Men at Work: Business as Usual and Level 42: World Machine tapes' days may be numbered.

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