I may actually have to buy a SMALL amount of candy or such for Halloween this year. Since Robert can barely put up with driving to Wendys for lunch, I don’t think he will be able to drive the RV to Pennsylvania for our usual “avoid Halloween” trip, let alone deal with driving around while there and setting up and breaking down. We have a little girl in both of the houses next door to us and I am guessing that if we are home, they will come by. I don’t think there will be other children unless they come with either of these girls in a group. There are no other children on the block and we don’t know anyone on the other streets (we barely know the people on either side of us). I am guessing buying small will cost more than buying large, but we don’t want anything in the house with us.
My friend who wrote/edited at DC comics used to hand out comic books for Halloween when he worked there.
@Meryl, you could turn off all the lights and hide in an interior room ….
I think Woozy has it. At first, I thought the cat had used the bowl as a litter box, and Lio was angry with his father for allowing this to happen, but then the third panel made no sense in that scenario.
Yes, Woozy got it in one.
The cat’s known for being unusually irritable (and as a consequence is often left alone). Lio, on the other hand, often sports a friendly demeanor, but this time — just this time — he wants to be left alone.
So Lio takes a page out of the cat’s playbook, and it works beautifully. So thumbs up to the cat, which is itself kind of funny and odd because the cat is showing his own approval, for once.
Yes, it’s become common practice that if lights are not on (outside, anyway), that is a ‘sign’ not to stop there. This year, we have outside decos (skeleton on bench, holding leash to skeleton dog [of course] that growls and barks and flashes red eyes) and several red-eyed flamingo skeletons (in Florida, what else would you have??), so hubby bought candy for kids (he says).
As he is a Santa Claus-lookalike, I suggested he sit on the bench with the skeleton, wearing his Santa suit to REALLY confuse the kids . . . telling ’em that in today’s economy, even Santa had to get a second job. (Seriously, he’s had kids in airports around the world ask if he was Santa; he always says, ‘Yes, I need a vacation, too’ and letting their parents take pictures with him.)
An alternative would be to have the skeleton wear the Santa suit . . . a nod to Tim Burton’s ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’. (The dogs have toys of Jack Skellington and Oogy Boogy, so why not?)
The number of kids coming by has dropped to between scarce and none. However, I buy a good selection of fun/snack size bars because this is a time when they are cheap. I allow myself two per day as my “chocolate snack”. So I’ll have some if anyone comes by, otherwise I’ll put them in the rotation.
I also tend to overbuy on “fun-size” chocolate (as opposed to “misery” size or “boredom” size or “unpleasant duty” size?). Unfortunately, I feel I ought to buy few or no bars which contain nuts, thanks to common kid allergies, and pretty much every type of candy I personally like does contain nuts, usually a lot of them.
Why couldn’t caramel or honey be the go-to allergy choice these days? I don’t like those anyway, so my problems would not arise.
We’ve lived here long enough to have gone through a complete cycle:
When we came to the neighborhood, our kids were small and there were plenty of kids around (we actually chose the neighborhood in part for that reason) . Then everybody seemed to age out of Halloween at once, and we went from giving out tons of candy (we actually gave out two tiers of candy: fun-size to the rabble, and full-size to our kids’ friends) to virtually none. One year, LITERALLY none.
And now, the parents of those kids have mostly moved on, making way for younger couples, with young kids, and we have to buy the large bags again.
You know what, Shrug, I hadn’t thought about that: next year, nut-free.
woozy, I have to admit I still haven’t gotten around to figuring out how to embed graphics into comments on the new template.
so far as i can tell: You put the url “https://i2.wp.com/lolzombie.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/image.jpeg” on a line by itself. But the url can’t have any code parameters after the file name. i.e. if the url is https://i2.wp.com/lolzombie.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/image.jpeg?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1 you most remove the “?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1”. I presume this means you must have an actual file name in the url; it can’t be a url to a script that will output a graphic.
What I don’t know is if there must be empty lines above or below the url or if thaer must be lines of text before or after the url by itself.
I never liked peanuts in candy bars. I like them fine by themselves but not with chocolate. I do like caramel though. When I was a kid, I could do quite well trading Snickers and Paydays for Milky Ways and others. Now I just buy what I like. That’s usually: Milky Way, Heath, Hershey’s plain or Almond, Twix, Kit Kat, 100 Grand, Crunch, Mounds, and Almond Joy.
The best day to buy them is often 11/1, at clearance price.
I buy a lot of bags of Hershey’s Miniatures, mostly the special dark kind. We get one or two trick-or-treaters. So usually it turns out that we have a lot of Hershey’s Special Dark miniatures to eat up.
On November 1, everybody who works in my wife’s office brings in their leftover candy.
She won’t admit it, but I have a feeling nobody really eats much lunch.
@ woozy – As far as I can tell, it works fine as long as the image URL starts at the beginning of the line and nothing follows it on that same line. Blank lines and/or text before and/or after the image are irrelevant, but the result usually does look better if you separate the text from the image with one blank line.
carlfink – Robert’s idea is to just go out straight through. I don’t think he can take being out that long right now. I did keep the birthday coupon I received from the Golden Corral in Freehold, NJ for my birthday just in case as going there would make Robert very happy – but that is at least an hour and a half trip each way and he can’t deal with the drive – and it is where we were headed on the 6 hour + trip to nowhere that we took.
The few years we were home – long ago – we had very few kids. The house to one side of us had an older woman (I think I am older now than she was when we moved in) and for a couple of years her son, DIL and granddaughter lived with her, so the granddaughter came. Then in the house beyond her a family with 3 children (which means now there are more than 5 cars at their house with room for one on the driveway and they all seem to have permanent overnight guests with cars also) who came for maybe 5 years. Other than that – no one. We live on a 4 lane main street and barely know the people in the house to each side and the family with all the cars. There are 4 houses on our side of the street – no children. There is one house across the street (it sits between 2 cross streets) and there was a family with 3 little girls – but they did not come as it was too dangerous to cross the street. People around the corner don’t know us so their kids never came here.
carlfink – looking at your post again – our only interior room is the downstairs bathroom which is 4ft x4ft – too small to spend an evening in.
Comics I Don't Understand 
The cat taught Lio how to protect his food.
I may actually have to buy a SMALL amount of candy or such for Halloween this year. Since Robert can barely put up with driving to Wendys for lunch, I don’t think he will be able to drive the RV to Pennsylvania for our usual “avoid Halloween” trip, let alone deal with driving around while there and setting up and breaking down. We have a little girl in both of the houses next door to us and I am guessing that if we are home, they will come by. I don’t think there will be other children unless they come with either of these girls in a group. There are no other children on the block and we don’t know anyone on the other streets (we barely know the people on either side of us). I am guessing buying small will cost more than buying large, but we don’t want anything in the house with us.
My friend who wrote/edited at DC comics used to hand out comic books for Halloween when he worked there.
@Meryl, you could turn off all the lights and hide in an interior room ….
I think Woozy has it. At first, I thought the cat had used the bowl as a litter box, and Lio was angry with his father for allowing this to happen, but then the third panel made no sense in that scenario.
Yes, Woozy got it in one.
The cat’s known for being unusually irritable (and as a consequence is often left alone). Lio, on the other hand, often sports a friendly demeanor, but this time — just this time — he wants to be left alone.
So Lio takes a page out of the cat’s playbook, and it works beautifully. So thumbs up to the cat, which is itself kind of funny and odd because the cat is showing his own approval, for once.
Yes, it’s become common practice that if lights are not on (outside, anyway), that is a ‘sign’ not to stop there. This year, we have outside decos (skeleton on bench, holding leash to skeleton dog [of course] that growls and barks and flashes red eyes) and several red-eyed flamingo skeletons (in Florida, what else would you have??), so hubby bought candy for kids (he says).
As he is a Santa Claus-lookalike, I suggested he sit on the bench with the skeleton, wearing his Santa suit to REALLY confuse the kids . . . telling ’em that in today’s economy, even Santa had to get a second job. (Seriously, he’s had kids in airports around the world ask if he was Santa; he always says, ‘Yes, I need a vacation, too’ and letting their parents take pictures with him.)
An alternative would be to have the skeleton wear the Santa suit . . . a nod to Tim Burton’s ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’. (The dogs have toys of Jack Skellington and Oogy Boogy, so why not?)
The number of kids coming by has dropped to between scarce and none. However, I buy a good selection of fun/snack size bars because this is a time when they are cheap. I allow myself two per day as my “chocolate snack”. So I’ll have some if anyone comes by, otherwise I’ll put them in the rotation.
I also tend to overbuy on “fun-size” chocolate (as opposed to “misery” size or “boredom” size or “unpleasant duty” size?). Unfortunately, I feel I ought to buy few or no bars which contain nuts, thanks to common kid allergies, and pretty much every type of candy I personally like does contain nuts, usually a lot of them.
Why couldn’t caramel or honey be the go-to allergy choice these days? I don’t like those anyway, so my problems would not arise.
We’ve lived here long enough to have gone through a complete cycle:
When we came to the neighborhood, our kids were small and there were plenty of kids around (we actually chose the neighborhood in part for that reason) . Then everybody seemed to age out of Halloween at once, and we went from giving out tons of candy (we actually gave out two tiers of candy: fun-size to the rabble, and full-size to our kids’ friends) to virtually none. One year, LITERALLY none.
And now, the parents of those kids have mostly moved on, making way for younger couples, with young kids, and we have to buy the large bags again.
You know what, Shrug, I hadn’t thought about that: next year, nut-free.
But full size nutty candy can save your life:
https://i2.wp.com/lolzombie.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/image.jpeg?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1
Arggh… I’ll figure it out *some* day.
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woozy, I have to admit I still haven’t gotten around to figuring out how to embed graphics into comments on the new template.
so far as i can tell: You put the url “https://i2.wp.com/lolzombie.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/image.jpeg” on a line by itself. But the url can’t have any code parameters after the file name. i.e. if the url is https://i2.wp.com/lolzombie.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/image.jpeg?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1 you most remove the “?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1”. I presume this means you must have an actual file name in the url; it can’t be a url to a script that will output a graphic.
What I don’t know is if there must be empty lines above or below the url or if thaer must be lines of text before or after the url by itself.
I never liked peanuts in candy bars. I like them fine by themselves but not with chocolate. I do like caramel though. When I was a kid, I could do quite well trading Snickers and Paydays for Milky Ways and others. Now I just buy what I like. That’s usually: Milky Way, Heath, Hershey’s plain or Almond, Twix, Kit Kat, 100 Grand, Crunch, Mounds, and Almond Joy.
The best day to buy them is often 11/1, at clearance price.
I buy a lot of bags of Hershey’s Miniatures, mostly the special dark kind. We get one or two trick-or-treaters. So usually it turns out that we have a lot of Hershey’s Special Dark miniatures to eat up.
On November 1, everybody who works in my wife’s office brings in their leftover candy.
She won’t admit it, but I have a feeling nobody really eats much lunch.
@ woozy – As far as I can tell, it works fine as long as the image URL starts at the beginning of the line and nothing follows it on that same line. Blank lines and/or text before and/or after the image are irrelevant, but the result usually does look better if you separate the text from the image with one blank line.
carlfink – Robert’s idea is to just go out straight through. I don’t think he can take being out that long right now. I did keep the birthday coupon I received from the Golden Corral in Freehold, NJ for my birthday just in case as going there would make Robert very happy – but that is at least an hour and a half trip each way and he can’t deal with the drive – and it is where we were headed on the 6 hour + trip to nowhere that we took.
The few years we were home – long ago – we had very few kids. The house to one side of us had an older woman (I think I am older now than she was when we moved in) and for a couple of years her son, DIL and granddaughter lived with her, so the granddaughter came. Then in the house beyond her a family with 3 children (which means now there are more than 5 cars at their house with room for one on the driveway and they all seem to have permanent overnight guests with cars also) who came for maybe 5 years. Other than that – no one. We live on a 4 lane main street and barely know the people in the house to each side and the family with all the cars. There are 4 houses on our side of the street – no children. There is one house across the street (it sits between 2 cross streets) and there was a family with 3 little girls – but they did not come as it was too dangerous to cross the street. People around the corner don’t know us so their kids never came here.
carlfink – looking at your post again – our only interior room is the downstairs bathroom which is 4ft x4ft – too small to spend an evening in.