I got a spam comment last night!  WOOHOO!  I feel so honored to have generated enough page hits (two must be enough these days) to have caught the eye of someone distributing spam.  Oh happy day!

Last night we started watching season one of the Muppet Show.  Both kids were pretty much dead set against it, but Mom insisted.  10 minutes into the first episode my step son was laughing so hard he fell off the couch.  This morning I got my step daughter to admit that she enjoyed some parts of the show too.  Even 35 years after the show initially aired, the Muppet Show can still bring in the big laughs.  I can’t wait to bring the kids to the new movie that comes out in a couple of weeks.

Changing the subject again, I scared the crap out of myself last night.  Literally minutes after writing the spam worthy post where I mentioned cooking boiled dinner and not getting anyone sick, I started feeling sick to my stomach.  I think it was my dessert that did it, not the dinner I had bragged about, but I was nervous there for a while.  No one else felt ill at all.  It was just me.  That was good.  I am fine today, but for a few minutes there last night I thought I had some how done something wrong with dinner and was going to make my whole family sick, never mind the fact that I had just minutes before bragged about how I didn’t get anyone sick.  Lucky there, huh?

The Bruins play the Islanders tonight.  Let us hope that the trend of not sucking continues for the Bruins.  I started playing EA Sports NHL 2012 last night.  They have always tried to make things realistic in the game, and that is part of the fun, but twice in one game last night I had to sit through video reviews of goals.  Ummmm… thanks but no thanks, EA.  I would much prefer to… you know… actually play the game… you know?

Today I completed what can only be described as an AWESOME personal achievement.

I cooked a boiled dinner and so far no one is dead. Can you believe it? I can’t. I mean all I did was follow my beautiful wife Jen’s detailed instructions, but really any time I cook something that doesn’t immediately require a visit to the emergency room is a big win in my book.

Trying hard not to screw this up.

Yesterday my darling wife improvised. She was out shopping and the kids and I were about to start getting ready for karate class when she called and turned everything upside down (in a good way).

She bought a turkey and all the fixin’s. And invited her folks along to join us. The kids and I started cleaning like crazy while Jen started cooking.

We can’t be sure if all of us will be able to get together for thanksgiving so Jen thought it would be nice to have a preview. It was a great idea. We all enjoyed it.

Tonight the kids will go to their Dad’s for another town’s worth of postponed trick or treating. We are going to celebrate Halloween take three by pretending it’s St Patrick’s Day and having boiled dinner.

In other news the Bruins kicked the crap out of Toronto last night. It was nice to see them do something other than suck.

Nasoalmo is still pretty useless, but I think I’m up to four lame things. Nothing near finished yet.

Kitty wonders if she heard right: did someone say turkey for dinner?

Movie shopping at Best Buy.

I was just informed that I had a monster truck on my head. Strangely enough, I did have a monster truck on my head.

Strange.

I messed together another song idea tonight. It sounds exactly like every other crap burger I’ve ever done.

It taught me a fact about GarageBand on the iPad of which I was previously unaware. You can string together a series of subsequences, but it will only let you use 10… and tonight’s stink nugget really called for 11.

Nigel Tufnel would be pissed off.

Why?  Why am I so tired.  This week hasn’t been longer than any other week, but it feels like 10 times as much has gone into getting through it.  I’m just tired I guess.  I’m looking forward to the weekend, but there are a lot of things to do.  The kids have all of their activities, I finally have to cave in to mother nature and rake some leaves in the front yard and get rid of the downed tree branches in the back.  I think Sunday will be the yard work day.  I’ll see if the kids want to help, but I won’t push them.  We have one less tree in the front yard, but that one wasn’t much of a problem as far as leaves are concerned.  Part of me is hoping for a quiet weekend, but as always if something fun comes along I’ll jump at the chance to do it.  Next weekend is a long weekend but I’m on call for the whole thing (and more) so I want to have fun with my family this weekend to make up for being a stuck-at-home bore next week.  Anyway, that’s the situation as it stands right now.

In summary, I’m tired and I want to go to sleep so I can get stuff done this weekend.

Due to the snow storm on Saturday the city of Methuen rescheduled trick or treating for Wednesday 11/2, last night. I took the afternoon off so I could pick up the kids after school, go to their Dad’s to get their costumes, then home in time to suit up for the 5:00 start.

Things were really slow at the start. We didn’t see a single trick or treater until after 5:30. I thought maybe word about the reschedule hadn’t gotten around. After the first group hit our house the kids and I went out. We cleaned up on three neighborhood streets. The kids were bombed with compliments on their costumes. One house even said they were the best of the night. I agreed.

Jen and I checked out all the haul and approved. The take was huge and delicious. It was a great trick or treat, even if it was a couple of days late.

A brief nasoalmo update. Two really bad song ideas underway. The only interesting part being that one is on my MacBook and the other is on my iPad. Yeah, it’s crazy like that.