Norman is celebrating Halloween tonight instead of tomorrow so that people can go to church. I suspect there will be trick-or-treating tomorrow night as well. So we unscrewed our porch light and went out to eat. Then we stopped by the airport and sat out on flight school’s deck and watched planes in the pattern land. While we were sitting there, something bit my hand. The heel of my hand swelled up in what looked like two bites. We drove over to Rusty’s Custard Stand, and my arm started itching. Then my thumb started itching. Now the swelling has gone…
We currently have no telephone service, so if you want to talk to us, you’ll have to send an e-mail. In other news I got a call today (before we lost service) from Bankers Life and Casualty Company. They found my resume on Monster.com and invited me to an open interview they’re having tomorrow evening at six. By the looks of their website, they’re hiring insurance salesmen. Sigh. So anyway, that’s where I’ll be tomorrow evening. Then I’ll come home and make an attempt at caramel apples to take to Friday’s “warehouse staff luncheon.” The theme is “food on a…
There’s an interesting article in today’s New York Times (free subscription required–and worth it) about John Kerry’s IQ: “People will often be misled into thinking someone is brighter if he says something complicated they can’t understand.” That’s okay; if a high IQ were the mark of a good president, Richard Nixon and Herbert Hoover would be at the top of the list. Michael Badnarik’s Libertarian run for president: He’s polling about the same as Nader. Why your vote doesn’t matter: But it actually does, just not in the way you might think it does. In the interest of equal time,…