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Devil’s Night
The house is mostly set for tomorrow. Being Devil’s night, I haven’t bother to put out all of the decorations, but I’ve got everything ready. All I need to do is move it all to the front yard when I get home from work tomorrow.

Tonight I finished off the plumbing for the pumpkins. It works really well. I’ve fashioned some 1/2″ PVC to pipe the fog from the fog machine up and into my two pumpkins. The effect of the fog rolling out of them is wonderful. They will be lit by some red glow sticks. All I really need to work out is where to place the strobe light. I think it will go off to the side and bounce off the front of the house. That should take out the harshness of the light while provide the fun strobie effect we all love.

2 Days / 8 Days
Two days to Halloween! The pumpkins have been carved. The new fog machine is ready, along with plumbing for pumpkins. Now it is time to cook pumpkin seeds! Yes!

Eight days and we’ll be in the U.S. Virgin Islands! And, Sarah and I have decided that next summer we are going to Italy. Yes!

Notwork
Well, our network is down so I can’t work. I wish I had something more exciting to post. I need to try and find time (and thoughts) to post more often.

[edit] OK, the network is back. I guess I should work now.

I Hope This is on ESPN
I surely don’t want to miss the Rock Paper Scissors World Championship. Check out the rules, especially point 2: the forbidden throws. I didn’t know there was anything besides, oh, rock, paper and scissors. Silly me.

And don’t miss The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide. I particularly like the Gambits section.

There is something sad about this. Of course, there are professional Magic: The Gathering players and it was on ESPN2 at one point. And for some reason I can’t help but watch the World Tournament of Poker when its on.

Cheap Faux
In tonight’s chapter of Sex, Drugs and Coco Puffs Klosterman relates an evening he spent interviewing a Guns ‘N Roses cover band. The very notion that a band doesn’t want to be a band but rather act like a band is very strange. But at least they are honest about it - it isn’t about making music, it’s about making money and getting chicks (not very much money, but more than they’d make as a “local band”). Very strange what our society produces.

In other worlds, over on James’ gaming page there is a thread about non-rpg games. It seems we are in agreement that we should hold a Cheap Ass Games game session. With the holidays and the Virgin Islands I’m not sure when we could do this, but it definitely sounds like fun. If you are interested, let us know. Oh, my warning: I plan on playing Time Machine and Witch Hunt, two time-consuming and possibly convoluted games.

Finally, I’m now going to head into Icewind Dale now to kill some verbeegs and stuff. Ah, D&D in nifty computer graphics. My party of 6 is at 5th level now and going quite nicely. (For geek: Two fighters, one specialized in two-handed sword, one in the bow; one fighter/thief; one cleric; one mage; one cleric/mage.)