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Share something interesting that happened this Halloween!

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For me, it started off as a nightmare. LOL

I thought my step-daughter wasn't going to get a Halloween this year. My wife was working, so I had my mom drive us around. We had decided to take her to a Trunk or Treat (Church Fall Festival type event) with games, events, candy, etc...

Problem was, we didn;t realize the FLORIDA/GEORGIA game was letting out AT THAT EXACT TIME WE WERE PASSING IT!!!! Gridlock is not even sufficient a word. 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes, going almost nowhere. We knew it was going to be too late to get to the festival with things like that. We finally got out on some side streets, which Georgia tourists don't know about, so that helped finally.

We rushed out toward some rich neighborhoods I knew of, from when I lived here before. But we passed some other church's fall festival. So we stopped there, but they only had events and NO CANDY! 3 minutes there, and we quickly left!

We jumped back in the car, and I joked to my step daughter... "Well honey, it's been a busy Halloween so far! In just the last hour, you participated in the Florida/Georgia game and went to a Fall Festival already!"

Poor thing did not even partially crack a smile. Nothing but a sullen look on her face.

I felt so bad.

I told her "Baby, we're gonna find some houses soon, don't worry!"

Finally we arrived at the rich subdivisions I had remembered from several years back.

CRAP!!!!

They were now GATED!!!

THOSE RICH ASSHOLES!!! LOL

Big ass gate in between us and QUALITY CANDY!!!!!

To hell with that!

I told my saintly mother... "Someone's coming in the gate... FOLLOW THEM!!!"

"I can't do that Craig."

"DO IT!!! DO IT!!! Come on mom, drastic times call for drastic measures! Hug that Mercedes ASS and follow him in... COME ON MEE MAW!!!!"

Luckily she is not too old to buckle to peer pressure!

WOOHOO!!!!

We got in the sacred gated fortress of half-million dollar homes and damn... darkness all over. Yep. Those selfish gated mutherf*ckers!!! 95% of them had their porch lights off! But luckily, the ones who had their lights on, were generoous! Handfulls of candy, not one or two pieces.

I felt like that little girl in Forrest Gump and started yelling to my step daughter... "Run honey, Run!!!!"

You gotta run up to each house, so we can hit more of them before the dreaded 9pm hour comes! Which is the unofficial cut-off of Halloween candy time. Yes you can push this. But somehow 9pm seems like everyone's time to start turning the porch lights off and call it a night!

We hit place after place... "Run, honey, Run!!!!

And by the time we were done, she had a wide-assed tote bag about half full. This was a BIG tote bag!

She made out!

She was happy.

I wasn't going to get reamed by the wifee for blowing her daughter's Halloween, so step-daddy was happy too!!

All in all, it ended well.

And I rewarded myself by hustling some of my step-daughter's candy!

Hey, I only asked for some of the ones she really doesn't like!

Good night. Scary for me, but good!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!

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Craig sounds like you had a wonderfull Halloween. You shoulda stopped by our houes. We had tons of candy and only 4 sets of tricker treaters. We played selections of loud scary music and sounds. We decorated the porch which was really cool. Lots compliments. Devin and Cassie might go to Disneyland to see the parade. Spnge Bob is the master of ceremonies. I'm glad my kids are adults so that I don't have to take them anyhwhere.

Mary,

I'm glad someone is still in the holiday spirit out there! As mentioned on another thread, people just don't go out of their way anymore. Not only do they not decorate for holidays much anymore, but porch lights turned off for Halloween everywhere. They aren't even willing to buy some candy and pass it out these days.

Sad.

I think there are a number of reasons for this. Saftey. Numerous alternatives available. Economy. But one of the biggest I think, is that we are becoming hermits. With so many options for entertainment and communication, cable, internet, webphones, high-quality gaming devices, etc... People don't have to leave home for much anymore. Holidays used to be a welcome diversion. Now there are infinite diversions ONLINE, or video games that take WEEKS to beat, with graphics that we could never have dreamed possible as children. You can download your songs online, no need to go to record stores anymore, and they have mostly gone out of business now as a result. Netflix will deliver your movies to your mailbox... no need to go to the video store anymore. More people buy books and software and clothes and everything else online than ever before too.

Communities are gated all over the place. And we lock ourselves indoors behind the gates, and have food, games, music and entertainment, all COME TO US now.

It's convenient.

But it also likely adds to us becoming a nation of islands.

How many people even bother to meet many of the neighbors on their streets anymore?

We are becoming disconnected.

And from the safety and relative anonymity of the internet, we can be more offensive to one another than we would in person. And more unconcerned as well.

We are losing the feeling of community, that once was predominant in the nation.

There is no way, that this is a net positive. On the contrary, when we are disconnected, it makes it easier to victimize others, to stop caring about others, and it makes it more difficult to BAND TOGETHER for the common good.

It's hurting us as a people.

But people like you, give me hope.

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I'm hearing swarms of invisible locusts in my clogged up earholes. Now it seems that the left ear wants to join the right in turning me totally deaf. The bronchitis hasn't abated, so I decided to stay in tonight.

Jace looked a lil under the weather, too, so he stayed in with me while Sue & Ian went out to some big spooky event in PA.

Jace & I had some fun playing around, & I scared him once with an old mask I found in the basement...eeek...& we had a fine dinner & snacks & some tv time. Fortunately, he seemed to feel better as the night wore on.

The wife & son evidently had a real good time at a haunted hay ride & a haunted corn maze & a haunted house fulla evil clowns...but I think Sue's a lil PO'd at my lack of joining in...eh...just don't feel up to much like this right now.

I took some Mucinex & I feel like an old fart with the coughing & hacking & the buzzing in my frikken ears & now I'm the only one awake in the house & I'm kinda pissed that I wasn't able to go out to have any frikken fun...but whatchagonna do?

Hows THIS for irony...

My friend Alex goes to Penn State, and we've always been fans of Billy Mays (The Oxiclean Guy) even after his recent death.

Today for Halloween, Alex dressed up as Billy Mays. Well, here's the irony...He had to throw away his OXICLEAN shirt because it got STAINED with vomit.

Oxiclean didn't work for him.

He was pretty embarrassed though, cause he ate Taco Bell, then went to a Frat and had 11 beers and threw up right in the middle of the party...Thank God nobody actually noticed :p

Well.. I had no plans last night. I went to a friend's house for a while, we had a beer and talked, no trick-or- treaters were coming by.

Then I get the call..

Hey Ted, I got 2 free tickets to Slipknot, wanna go?

HELL YEA I WANNA GO!!!!!!!!!!!

Some scalper just handed my friend Vinny 2 free tickets. Said he didn't wanna wait around trying to sell them anymore. So where were our seats you ask?

Box seats.

And who else was in our box section??

Zakk Wylde.

So yea.. Crazy night. I watched a Slipknot concert on Halloween for free with my friend and Zakk Wylde. Dude's finger was jacked up by the way. At first I thought he flipped me a bird when I went to shake his hand, but he was telling me to watch out for his finger, it has a big scar right across the tip of his middle finger (his picking hand).

THE HALLOWEEN SHOW WAS A FRIGGIN' BLAST.... VID WILL BE POSTED LATER:

CraigMaxim wrote:Mary,

I'm glad someone is still in the holiday spirit out there! As mentioned on another thread, people just don't go out of their way anymore. Not only do they not decorate for holidays much anymore, but porch lights turned off for Halloween everywhere. They aren't even willing to buy some candy and pass it out these days.

Sad.

I think there are a number of reasons for this. Saftey. Numerous alternatives available. Economy. But one of the biggest I think, is that we are becoming hermits. With so many options for entertainment and communication, cable, internet, webphones, high-quality gaming devices, etc... People don't have to leave home for much anymore. Holidays used to be a welcome diversion. Now there are infinite diversions ONLINE, or video games that take WEEKS to beat, with graphics that we could never have dreamed possible as children. You can download your songs online, no need to go to record stores anymore, and they have mostly gone out of business now as a result. Netflix will deliver your movies to your mailbox... no need to go to the video store anymore. More people buy books and software and clothes and everything else online than ever before too.

Communities are gated all over the place. And we lock ourselves indoors behind the gates, and have food, games, music and entertainment, all COME TO US now.

It's convenient.

But it also likely adds to us becoming a nation of islands.

How many people even bother to meet many of the neighbors on their streets anymore?

We are becoming disconnected.

And from the safety and relative anonymity of the internet, we can be more offensive to one another than we would in person. And more unconcerned as well.

We are losing the feeling of community, that once was predominant in the nation.

There is no way, that this is a net positive. On the contrary, when we are disconnected, it makes it easier to victimize others, to stop caring about others, and it makes it more difficult to BAND TOGETHER for the common good.

It's hurting us as a people.

But people like you, give me hope.

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We didn't get very many kids...about 5 groups but still had a nice time. We have about 20 units on my side of our group of townhomes and I just saw one other unit giving out treats. I always tell the kids that they are so scary that I'm too afraid to come to the door. I also have the kids tell me who/what there were supposed to be. I mean, don't come to my door without expectin' a conversation. One kid told me he loved me. I told him that I loved him too. I told him to work hard in school.

So I thought that it was all worth it.

Crip2Nite wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBlXfA9378Q

No wonder we didn't get many tricker treaters...they were all partyin' with you!!!

philbymon wrote:I'm hearing swarms of invisible locusts in my clogged up earholes. Now it seems that the left ear wants to join the right in turning me totally deaf. The bronchitis hasn't abated, so I decided to stay in tonight.

Jace looked a lil under the weather, too, so he stayed in with me while Sue & Ian went out to some big spooky event in PA.

Jace & I had some fun playing around, & I scared him once with an old mask I found in the basement...eeek...& we had a fine dinner & snacks & some tv time. Fortunately, he seemed to feel better as the night wore on.

The wife & son evidently had a real good time at a haunted hay ride & a haunted corn maze & a haunted house fulla evil clowns...but I think Sue's a lil PO'd at my lack of joining in...eh...just don't feel up to much like this right now.

I took some Mucinex & I feel like an old fart with the coughing & hacking & the buzzing in my frikken ears & now I'm the only one awake in the house & I'm kinda pissed that I wasn't able to go out to have any frikken fun...but whatchagonna do?

Oh, I love haunted hay rides. I've not seen any in California. They probably have to regulate all that haunted hay, which means costly paper work and insurance for liability crap. So they go to Disneyland instead since they can afford law suits.

Mary,

You friggin' rock!

You just friggin' rock! That's all there is to it! I just love your personality, and especially so, with that generous and good natured heart of yours!


Shredd,

WTF bro!!!! You've built up some good Karma my friend! But now the obligatory chastisement.... BRING A DEMO EVERYWHERE YOU GO BROTHER!!!! You should have been able to hand him a demo of "Burn" and one of "HaleAmano"!!! But I'm glad you had such a great and... UNEXPECTED experience like that! Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy!


Crip,

I had a good Halloween, but it would have been better if I was rockin' it out playing music throughout the night! I'm still trying to find all the good musicians in Florida! But I'm glad you had a rockin' Halloween brother! You can tell that you are always having fun at your gigs! I MISS THAT!!! But I'm working hard on changing all that for me, and getting back out there!

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Nothing I was directly involved with thank goodness.
A lady at the hospital who's family called the nurses station concerned that she was not answering the phone in her room, this is a common occurence as the phones often get knocked off the beds or bedside tables and are disconnected. However when staff went to determine the problem it was noted the lady had passed. ( it must be noted that most of the patients on this particular unit are very sick)
I am glad it was not I that had to go back to that phone at the nurses station.
Hardest job I have to do as a nurse is inform familys of the passing of a loved one.
Second hardest job is to realise that despite all the advances in medical technology, when it's your turn to take the dirt nap, your gone.

CraigMaxim wrote:Shredd,

WTF bro!!!! You've built up some good Karma my friend! But now the obligatory chastisement.... BRING A DEMO EVERYWHERE YOU GO BROTHER!!!! You should have been able to hand him a demo of "Burn" and one of "Haleomano"!!! But I'm glad you had such a great and... UNEXPECTED experience like that! Couldn't happen to a more deserving guy!


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Yea, I know. But in all honesty, I don't think I can get in a concert in Vegas with a cd. I'm pretty sure they consider it a projectile. Hard-core concerts are especially strict around here. They damn near strip-search you. Sometimes you can't even bring in a lighter. I was made to throw away my Carmex one time. But you're right. I should be doing that even if I have to just give them out before going in.

But I do have a weird karma when it comes to the Palms. Last time I went there some dude asked me if I wanted a box seat, and I watched Puscifer from a sky box. People were just buying me beers and Red Bull Vodka all night. I don't know what it is, but I always end up in a box section when I go there. Hahaha.

Shredd6 wrote:
But I do have a weird karma when it comes to the Palms. Last time I went there some dude asked me if I wanted a box seat, and I watched Puscifer from a sky box. People were just buying me beers and Red Bull Vodka all night. I don't know what it is, but I always end up in a box section when I go there. Hahaha.

Because you are rock and roll royalty brother! Maybe the universe is already serving you as such?

Are you still writing?

hello...

ARE YOU STILL WRITING????

I told you HaleAmano would be good for you, but they are only a step. You have further to rise eventually, and your songwriting is a major part of that. DON'T LEAVE THAT OUT!!!

DON'T FORGET TO KEEP WRITING!!!

Have the songs READY, so when the opportunity comes (and it's coming) you have your ducks in a row, and you have the right songs for that opportunity!

Then when that day comes... Someone with the keys to the gate will be put in your path and be able to hear MANY of your songs, and they are gonna say something like...

"Holy sh*t dude! This stuff is deep and tight! Where the hell have you been?"

And you will be able to say...

"I've been expanding my musical universe, and strengthening my Karma, in a badass Reggae band bredda! Jah know!"

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