WTF-Beta

@Bernard said:

Fourteen, but a few will not be started up so probably around 12.

Ok you win! that’s a lot!

Another thing I forgot is our outdoor lights, which are on a timer. I think they’re supposed to adjust automatically, but if memory serves, last year, I had to adjust them manually.

@kluurs holy cow! That’s a crazy huge number! also sounds like fun.

In the end, we only had the two groups. There are some families with kids in the neighborhood, but we are at the end of our street. And we didn’t have decorations up earlier, so those factors might be part of it.

Oh, and our immediate neighbors next door have two daughters but they are away, and our across-the-street neighbors don’t have kids.

So maybe I could have predicted this, but we had more last year so I wasn’t expecting our turn out to be this low.

There are two places in town (not our neighborhood but along the commute to work) that do amazing Halloween displays, one with a huge selection of those massive balloon characters, very very cute, young kid-friendly. The other is the scary kind, with giant skeletons, a skeleton dinosaur, a scarecrow man that looks like its must be 10 feet tall.

I wonder how many visitors those places get.

@jon-nyc I always forget about the car!

Actually our alarm clocks have the DST button too, thankfully!

Smartphones and laptops will update automatically, but how many clocks do you have to change manually?

We actually have a lot. The microwave, three wall clocks, four alarm clocks… some wrist watches. I think that’s it, but it’s like 9 or 10!

We’ve had two groups so far, and one of them was three boys not in costumes (they looked to be maybe 13 y/o and seemed sheepish!)

There’s only 10 minutes left.

Phooey!

Goatee

The last time I tried to use Post Images, it wasn’t working. Let’s see if it is now…

Btw our time is 5:30-8:30pm. An hour on and no visitors yet.

We are still waiting for our first visitors…

We’re waiting for kids now… hopefully we’ll get trick-or-treaters, otherwise all this candy will be for naught!

Shoes

My reaction was kind of like @dougg ’s

LLM

Wrestle

Knives

@Mik it looks like the phone shouldn’t be able to be accessed by another device unless it’s signed in to the same Apple account.

But I set mine to off anyway.

@kluurs doh! I bought that book on Kindle last year! I just haven't read it yet. And there's no audio version.

@DougG said:

“old movies”

That's why I used scare quotes in the thread title!

Oh wait, you said "talkies" ...

@AdagioM said:

He surprised me with a trip to Sonata piano camp in 2000. I went for several more years after that. Life-changing

I remember you posting about it!

Thanks for sharing that review! The writer might not have liked it, but I sure did!

@kluurs I don't know if I know that book, I will check it out.

Horde