Change your clocks back an hour, sometime before tomorrow.

I don't usually keep track of when this is supposed to happen. I notice that it's happened when my computers all change, and then I change such few non-computer timekeepers as are around here (basically, the microwave oven).

On other subjects, I'm in serious pain today. Enough so that I hauled out the emergency measures and took an ibuprofen. I think that's the first NSAID I've taken in about five years; it's just not something I use.

My neck right now gives me major pain signals every time I move my head in any direction, and I don't have any idea what I did to it to make it so awful. Presumably it'll get better in a couple of days, and it's not so bad as to make me scream, so I'll just put up with it. But it wasn't fun last night and it ain't gonna be fun tonight, because I can't find a position laying down which isn't continuously painful. Not impossible, though; I was able to knock out for a nap this afternoon for a while.

UPDATE: I wonder if any kids will knock on my door this year. A couple of years I got none. Last year it was just once, two girls. I had a big basket of candy, so each of them got a big handfull. The basket this year is even bigger, and any kid who braves our apartment complex will be glad.

But I bet I don't get any. Times change, I guess. When I was little, and living in this same area, we used to go around about 8:00 or even later, and there were always a lot of kids around. These days people are afraid to leave their kids out after dark, I guess. It's sad; something has died. Halloween is supposed to be about pretending to be afraid, not about really genuinely being afraid.

It's after dark now, which probably means the window is closed.

UPDATE: My neck doesn't hurt as much as it did this afternoon. Whether that's the ibuprofen or just that it's getting better, I don't know, but it's certainly a relief.

1945 and no kids yet. Probably won't be any at all. What in hell am I supposed to do with all this candy?

At the rate I eat it, that'll last a year. (And I shouldn't eat it any faster, because I"m trying to lose weight.)

UPDATE: 2000, and I'm saved. I just got a big bunch of kids, and managed to get rid of about two thirds of that basket. Whew!

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Daily Life at 04:41 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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