Author: Tony

I’ve decided to fill the trunk of my car with ashes.

That way when the leathery-faced old smoker in the car in front of me flicks ashes out their window onto my car I can simply pass them and pull the trunk release.

Now, does anyone know where I can pick up 11.5 cubic feet of ashes?

Here are a few of the pictures from the Festival of Pumpkins:

Mommy and Matthew are all smiles.

That’s Matthew sitting on his first bale of hay.

We don’t look very happy because the sun was in our eyes.

Matthew was not so sure about Sparky the fire dog. There was another fireman standing back with a remote control and a microphone talking through Sparky.

Matthew tried to make friends with some llamas. Unfortunately, they didn’t know the llama song.

There were quite a few classic cars there. Is this Geoff’s dad’s car?

Matthew couldn’t quite reach the pedals. If you look close on the right side of this picture you can just barely see Paige’s hand on top of a mailbox. Luckily Matthew was pretty interested in the tractor and didn’t try to jump off.

Overall we had a really good time. We ate a hot dog, some kettle corn, and a fried pie. It should be even more fun next year when Matthew is big enough to run around and get into things.

We’ll probably also enter him in the costume contest next year. We didn’t know about it until we got there and we were too late. Check back tomorrow for a few trick or treat pictures.

Boo!

I think I’m feeling the benefits of the end of daylight savings time today. We had a really busy weekend, but I’m not at all tired today. I’ve been tired for so long, I had just about forgotten what this feeling was like.

Also, now that robotics is over I have some more free time in the evenings. I’m planning on spending a lot of time writing code for the next few weeks (months, years, etc.) Hopefully my geeky ramblings won’t spill over onto this site, but don’t hold your breath.

Check back later for pictures from the Pumpkin Festival. We had a good time there Saturday morning. Matthew was too little to do most of the things, but he did get to see his first llama.

I complained the other day about Serenity not coming to Paris so I guess I should mention the fact that it is playing this week. We watched most of it on Tuesday evening, but unfortunately we had to leave a little early.

I was hoping to go back and catch the rest of it this weekend, but of course the Cinemark in Paris has failed me again. Today is the last day to see Serenity. That’s right, it started last Friday and it’ll be gone tomorrow.

Since we’ve already paid for tickets I feel totally justified in downloading a copy to watch. After all, we purchased the rights to watch the whole movie. I even bought a $3.00 bag of stale popcorn.

There’s good news and bad news… The good news is I don’t have to stay up at the school until 6:00pm every night anymore. The bad news is we didn’t do so well on game day. As a matter of fact, we didn’t even place.

We came in 8th place on the field again this year. We made it to the semi-finals thanks to our performance in the wild card match just like before. Last year we came out in 3rd place for the BEST Award, this year we got nothing.

I honestly don’t know exactly how we did, since they only announce scores for the teams that place. I’ll have to try to e-mail somebody at BEST and see if we can get our score.

We may not have won a trophy, but no one can deny that we had spirit:

Oh well, we’ll try a little harder next year…

Here’s a tip for movie theater owners: If you’re concerned about people downloading movies instead of paying to see them, why don’t you try actually showing the movies that people want to see?

Everyone I know would gladly pay to see Serenity. I would probably see it more than once. Unfortunately, that’s not an option in Paris.

Oh well, I’m sure I’ll find some way to watch it…

Here’s Matthew with his first pumpkin.

Paige bought this kit that you stick on a real pumpkin like Mr. Potato Head. It’s a lot less messy than trying to carve the pumpkin.

Not to mention I’m no artist.

In my younger days, I loved to burn things. I remember hanging out at the Foster house and trying to find anything we could set on fire. Everyone had bad hair and smelly armpits because we burned up all of the hair spray and Right Guard.

I’ll bet there are still marks on their back porch were we would make puddles of whatever we could find in the kitchen and try to set them on fire. But we were never stupid enough to fill a melon with something flamable and then try to hit it with a bat…

Fire Melon

This is one of those things that makes the Internet so great. If you’ve ever wondered – “What would happen if I set a melon on fire and hit it with a bat?” Now you know.