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It's 7am and I've already had my first call from JL. Sigh. Dratted timezone differences.

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If it's Halloween, it must be...

Happy birthday, therealjae! I admire you...

And it's been exactly 23 years tonight since my first date with patgreene :-).

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Back home with David and Kevin... the latter insisted on hitting one more street after his too-tired older brother went home. James and a friend are still out there, somewhere.

I spent the day mostly hanging out with hopeforyou at work... a staff meeting, more discussions, then quiet writing, then a late lunch, then a marsh walk, then more office stuff. She's much better than even a couple of weeks ago... on Wednesday, she was her old self again, back leading a technical meeting.

Tonight... put the kids to bed, then probably nothing. patgreene doesn't want to go out, but also wants me nearby, so... here I'll stay. Even though my beautiful student intern, SD, earlier today offered me a ticket to a midnight horror movie showing at Camera 7. But I'm neither a movie buff or a slasher fan. Back to checking candy for tampering...

Thud...

James came back tonight with 382 pieces... about 10 pounds. That's more than we distributed! About 18,000 kcal. And we checked every piece. And his legs hurt.

Our children are volunteering 10% of their take to be collected by our church who distributes it to poor kids (via Second Harvest food bank).

a Halloween photo

( James and Pat's handiwork, tonight... )