How do you feel today?

[matrixman]

That's a bummer, AjK. These days I guess more parents are reluctant to have their kids go trick-or-treating on the streets, and are taking them to the mall instead, where it's safer - or perceived to be.

[AjK]

That's a bummer, AjK. These days I guess more parents are reluctant to have their kids go trick-or-treating on the streets, and are taking them to the mall instead, where it's safer - or perceived to be.

And I can't blame them. It just makes me a little sad when I think about the great fun I had as a kid. Back in the day in my neighborhood there was a guy who used to set up a real, full-scale cotton candy machine (just like at the carnivals.) He was a legend and we always ended the night there and ate the cotton candy as we walked home with our loot.

[balon!]

The world had moved on, I guess.



I feel a little sad and strange. My pet beta, Frederick Fancypants died today. His water had been having some weird problems that I couldn't get rid of, no matter how many times I changed the tank. *sigh*

RIP Fred.

[Cameraman Jenn]

Sorry about your fish friend Balon. Yes the world is a very different place than it was when I was a youth, AjK. It is sad.

[Seareach]

It's Melbourne Cup day! Giddy Up!

[lurch]

Is that like a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup? They are so good. I think I'll have another one..

[Seareach]

No...no eating involved (I don't eat horse!)

But we've just got ourselves some champers and Mr Seareach has gone to the TAB to lay my bets... GO MY HORSE (I can't remember who I included in my box trifector but it's a place for Moatize (ridden by the only woman in the field), and SoS chose Lord Red because his favorite color is red.



...hmmmm....maybe I should put on a frock...and that way when I get plastered on the glass of champagne (yep, wanna get me quickly silly give me champagne...I only drink it on Melbourne Cup day) I can twwwiiiirrrrlllll in the garden and look pretty before I fall over.










(that's my visual representation of the cup field...although there's 24 horses)

...and they're coming around the track...

[CovenantJr]

After all the trick or treat sorrow I've been seeing in here, I think I must say what I say every Halloween: Trick or treat = parentally endorsed protection racket. Groom your future crime bosses early.

[lurch]

Post Halloween Uplift...Mojitos and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. YAHAAAAA!

[Cameraman Jenn]

Thanks to some problem on the bridge we got stuck in gridlock and it took over an hour to get home on the bus. Bleagh. Tomorrow has absolutely got to be better. Seriously.

[lurch]

Ya know,,when life gives you lemons,,ya just gotta turn them into lemonade.. or a lemony Mojito,,like,,every time i get stuck in the tunnel that goes underneath downtown feenix,,I take upon myself to start entertaining the folks..maybe just 2 bits on the car horn,Da dada da daa da,DA DA!,,that usually gets a response of some kind or another,,which inspires another driver to kick it up to a Mexican Hat Dance ala car horn then the aaa uuugaas and cow mooowing and the Truck blasts chime in and before ya know it..its a symphony better that beethovens 9th's Hallauya Chorus...So,,next time ya get lemons,,just start singing the Hallayuya Chorus. Ya know it based on an olde beer drinkin song. So its just gotta be rite.

[Auleliel]

I feel entirely unmotivated to do any of the homework I have to do for tomorrow, which means I will start it at 11:30ish and work at it until 3:30am, give up, and panic my way through it until 5 minutes before it is due when I will print it off and pray that the spellchecker caught everything. I seem to be caught in a vicious cycle of laziness and lack of sleep.

[Seareach]

<yawn> It's 5.30am and this is the second time I've got up to check if Obama has won yet and it's the second time I've been disappointed (ie: both him and the frozen food guy are still on zero each). Get a move on will ya US of A!

I'm going back to bed. Someone come wake me up when it's all over.

[Cagliostro]

Give it at least another 8 hours.

[Cameraman Jenn]

I feel good. I am very positive that today is going to go well. I'm over my blues and out of my slump and running wild. I even dragged my crazy building super, Jorge out to vote this morning.

[Cagliostro]

I feel good. I am very positive that today is going to go well. I'm over my blues and out of my slump and running wild. I even dragged my crazy building super, Jorge out to vote this morning.

Is that what they are calling it these days?

[Menolly]

Give it at least another 8 hours.

Oh, at least.
Does anyone else see challenges and recounts, hanging chads and lack of paper trails at electronic voting machines, in the near future?

Sea, polls don't close until 7:00 pm, throughout the country. For the western states, that's seven hours away. And even if results are tallied before then in the eastern states, the results will not be released until the western states polls close, for fear of influencing those who have yet to cast a vote if they hear the results are going one way or the other. So we won't even start to hear results for a good seven to eight hours...

[Damelon]

They'll release results. They just won't make predictions as to who will win a state until all that state's polls close. (There are a lot of other races aside from the presidential.)

[Seareach]

Morning!!!!

Has he won yet?

Yeah, ok. I know I have to wait (it's similar here in Oz. It's not until the polling booths close here that we start to get an idea of who is winning).

Anyway....I'll keep twiddling my thumbs in the meantime...or typing nonsense here!

[Kil Tyme]

5AM, then you are in the future and should know who won by now.

I'm glad it's a huge turn out, btw.

And I'm feelin fine; getting over a cold.