That’s unfortunate. I hope you and your son had fun watching movies, though! Halloween candy works just as well as a “eat this while we wait for the turkey to cook” on Thanksgiving or Christmas, if you do that sort of gathering.

We set up the projector outside and played a few family Halloween movies like Hocus Pocus and Hotel Transylvania while we handed out candy. Had roughly 60 kids come through but it died off way sooner than we expected. Usually we have groups coming around until 9 or even 9:30, but last night arrivals stopped at around 8.

I hope it’s one of those traditions that doesn’t die off, because it’s fun to see the costumes and it gets people out to see/meet their neighbors. We met a couple last night that just moved in down the block that we likely otherwise would not have interacted with or ever run into knowingly.

With beloved TV action star Ernest Borgnine!

Would you like an apple pie with that?

I once had a user open a ticket for a network issue at 4:47pm on Friday.

Right before he went out on scheduled PTO for two weeks.

Yeah, let’s see you try doing German ballads better than The Hoff, you pussies.

/s

For the uninitiated: https://youtu.be/yT5rqKMaHAg

M-O-O-N, that spells The Stand (1994). Such a great miniseries.

Misery, Stand By Me, The Running Man (1987), and The Dead Zone for movies and 11/22/63 and Under The Dome for TV shows.

Because they were names I’d been scrolling by for years and will never, ever intentionally call them. Nothing bad, just things like old work contacts, or even people from college and high school that were added decades ago and never left my phonebook.

I never wanted to delete them just in case one day I needed to get in touch with them, but it ended up turning into a digital junk pile that I need to clean out now and then.

I can always add them back in if we ever cross paths in the future.

It’s pretty insane. Need to be prepared for any kind of weather. We had a 121F swing this year in Minneapolis. It was -21F on January 23, 2026, and 100F on July 27, 2026.