Things that aren’t writing

I attended the Seattle contingent of the Wold Wide Flash Mob today. It’s a full geocaching event in 15 minutes. It was complete insanity and chaos, and I had a blast. I didn’t think they’d hold it right in front of the ticket booth. That part seemed kind of weird, but it did lead to the weirdest looks from the muggles nearby. It was a huge group. Can’t wait to hear the totals. There were well over 100 in attendance. So far there are 76 “attended” logs for individuals or groups. They’ve been coming in steadily all day. I think the organizer is going to post an official total based on the physical event logs soon. Those list number of people per log. A lot of the Groundspeak crew showed up as well.

The whole set.

While I was at it, I uploaded my work Halloween pics.

Here’s my finished costume:

Tick teet count

6:35 – 1 toddler and her parents (neighbors from across the street)
6:50 – 6 or 7 of the kids from the street. Mom came up to see the Pink Lady (me)
7:06 – 3 early elementary age kids I didn’t recognize. One tried desperately to get the hand in the candy dish. (It’s not one that attacks)
7:13 – 2 early junior high age-ish kids
7:32 – 1 more “You look beautiful! …What are you?”
7:34 – 3 elementary-ish

The pumpkin

Halloween 2007

Well, it was a rough start. My porch light sensor has gone haywire lately, which isn’t very trick-or-treat friendly. To solve that in the temporary sense, I’ve purchased a string of gravestone lights for the yard and I’m putting a flashlighty lantern on the porch. That should solve the strobe-lighty issue I’m having with the regular porch light. Also Gabe’s battery died, so I loaned him my car to go get a new one. I wasn’t about to not be home on Halloween, one of my favorite nights of the year.

I’m also trying something a little different with the pumpkin this year. Now that it’s award winning*, I decided to keep it indoors. (OK, really it’s just that I’ve never found a good place for it and the fire makes me nervous outside. I should get one of those lightbulb options.) So, I set it up inside my bedroom. In the process, I was raising the mini-blinds only to have them crash down to the flloor, much as one in the living room did a couple months ago. Perhaps I need to just buy replacements all around.

But now, I’m all set up ready to go with my annual trick-or-treater count. I notice I don’t have an entry from last year, which seems odd. I thought I remember doing it both years. Hmm. Perhaps it was just too depressing to list the paltry amount of trick-or-treaters. I want to say it was about 9.

6:45 – 2 little girls
7:10 – 3 teenagers in no costumes with their backpacks
7:15 – 4 more teenagers in no costumes who maveled at my pumpkin
8:05 – 3 neighbor kids who were very cold with their dad

And at 9:45 we turned off the lights when Gabe left. Grand total: 12 just like 2 years ago. I was very generous with the candy.

*I won “most creative” in the company contest out of 7 entries. Not that there was much creativity involved, just good pattern selection and perseverance.