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Well I'm sitting at my desk at work, dressed as a pirate. I am one of the only people in my department who dressed up today. Admittedly, mine is a costume with a trick. I'm wearing my normal dress shirt and tie, with a pirate wig, tattoo sleeves, a piratey belt and boot covers, so if I really have to go somewhere today to cover a story, I can just take a couple of thing off and look like an unshaven reporter. Sweet!
Other than this, though, this Halloween is very un-Halloweenish for me. We are finishing painting at our new house, which has taken up every evening this week (when I wasn't sick and in bed) and we hope to be moved this weekend, so no decorations, no scary movies, no sifting the internet for fun desktop themes and spooky sounds, no spooky games, no Halloween RPG session, no Halloween podcast (sigh), none of that stuff.
A very sad "Yarrrr..."
ME
On the Halloween front, we had Trick or Treat Saturday evening in Williamstown and I dressed as a weather-worn pirate, directing kids onto the porch where my dad was handing out the "cursed treasure." After more than two hours standing in the cold and roaring "Avast ye scurvy sea dogs!" I have come down with a monster cold and now barely have a voice. Being a pirate is hard.
The kids loved it, though. We had some that came back two or three times, not to get candy, but just to talk to me or to dare their friends to go up on the porch.
The unfortunate part is my cold and lack of a voice puts a damper on my plans to do a Halloween podcast, which I had hoped to release before Wednesday. Dang it. This podcasting biz is hard work, and I don't seem to be doing it well at all.
ME
