Ed Icionsub

Big weekend for frightful fun. There are haunted houses, club crawls and private parties busting out all over. We’ll be dressed up and drunk within a couple hours. Really looking forward to a crazy crazy night.

It was easy to find pirate stuff this year for a costume so I decided to add a twist and be a ghost pirate. I added some shiny parts to my regular pirate gear. My yoke shirt and leather breeches still fit after all these years. So I just needed a feathered hat and new vest, and I bought some rubber gloves that are painted like skeleton hands. Stopped shaving last week so I have a scruffy face then I painted it white and grey. Bought a silly gold hoop earring that isn’t pierced – thank God.

It’s all about plundering tonight, mateys – in a good way of course.

My sister has a cat. Don’t hate her for that. There’s three kinds of people in this world: cat people, dog people, and other people. Trust me, I am not a cat people.

As far as cats go, this one puts up with a lot from her and her brat kids. Look at what they’ve done to that poor kitty for Halloween.

Wall Street Joke of the Week:

“This is worse than divorce. I’ve lost more than half of my net worth and I still have my wife.”

This is the 57 Panhead that my buddy Mike has been working on. He finally finished it up and took it out on the road for a couple of weeks while the weather is still nice. Since he rebuilt the engine it has a little over 3,000 miles on it.

This weekend he took it down to the dealer and left it with them on consignment. It breaks your heart to let something like this go, but he has two more that need work and it will take the money from selling this one to pay for the parts and time to get the other two rebuilt and back on the road.

This is a great bike. If I had any extra money laying around I’d seriously consider buying it.

It has been years since I attended a high school football game. It would probably be more attractive to me if I knew any kids that played high school football. As a kid, I went to all the junior high and high school football games. It was THE place to be on Friday nights.

There is a lot of support for high school and college football in the South. One of the nice things about living in a smaller TV market is that the local news shows actually comment on the Friday night football results and show some video highlights of a few games. I think it is great that the kids get the TV exposure. At lest it is not more crime reports and depressing crap – sports are fun to watch and to particpate in and they build character.