It feels like September sitting here on the front step. The peepers are singing forcefully, so it sounds like August. But the air feels like September. The step is just cool enough on my bare feet to be less than comfy. And the low temp and humidity make it more a night for long pants than shorts. I wish the air would check the calendar.
“Well it's a lovely night here in upstate NY, the heat wave has finally broken. It was over 90 for it seemed like an eternity, uh but, it's finally cooler and balmy and uh there seems to be an awful lot of insects chirping outside, I think they really like the heat, so they're chirping their heads off, you can hear them chirping from in here.
We live on a hill, a green tree covered hill, and if you've never been to upstate NY this is the green bumpy area of the country, if you're flying this way from the south or from the southwest the land turns from brown, flat brown, to flat green, and then it turns into like bumpy hair covered looking green. And we're in the bumpy hair covered looking green next to one of the big bodies of water. Um, so... oh the kitty cat just crawled up in my lap, I don't think you can hear him but, he's a purring, so I think I'll go waste time doing something else now.”
We bought my wife's seester Jen's Christmas present. A really nice fruitcake. I hear what you're saying....a fruitcake?!? Well yea. But this is the world's greatest fruitcake. You should see it. It's not all gooey and over preserved like the ones you've seen. It cost a ton of money too. Her Gram had to kick in to help pay for it. She'll never have another fruitcake like this one. ~_^
The developers of Guild Wars obviously spent a lot of time preparing special mods to the game for Halloween. I was lucky enough to visit one of the major cities, Lion's Arch, shortly before the arrival of the mysterious "Mad King". Since it had been advertised for a few days, I hung out to see what happened. Mad King arrived at 9:00 pm central time, heralded by the rise of the candy corn behemoths.
The Mad King put the players who crowded with him though several tests. Each test required a response in the form of a game emote command. Each time I did one correctly in time, a reward item was put in my inventory. Each time I messed up or was slow...I was killed instantly. But then rose a moment later to play further. The tests were intentionally silly...he told jokes (if you didn't laugh he killed you), ordered dances, played rock paper scissors...and at the end he gave us each a pumpkin head helmet.
So I got the bright idea of walking to work. It's only two miles, and I regularly walk two miles at lunchtime no problem. I learned pretty quickly that walking two miles on top of a very large hill did not prepare me for walking two miles up the SIDE of the very large hill. About a third of the way up I was telling myself if Patten's troops could double time all the way to Bastiogne in the dead of winter, what was I complaining about? Finally, 2/3 up the hill, long after the sidewalks had disappeared, I had my "what the hell was I thinking" moment. Fortunately, about that time a blond in a black SUV picked me up.
So from now on I'm going to drive to work and walk home. It's going to take a lot of vehicles.
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