A hobo would make a mark near a house, often carved on a fence post or tree, letting those who came after know what his experience knocking on that door was. Nice lady, mean dog, good soup. Here’s that sign language. Why didn’t we think, like these guys have, of using chalk marks like these on the sidewalks at Halloween? Same basic situation.

the mark above is the symbol for “this house gives Reese’s peanut butter cups”.

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Here’s some links to posts from past Halloweens: Win and Bo. A good set of getups from Taylor and Evan. David Webb’s first Halloween costume. Taylor’s last trick or treat. Randy’s Jack o’ Lantern. The real Kim? The real Casey? The real Jonah? The real Jimmie? I’m going to be in trouble for that one. It’s all in fun!!

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I had mentioned to many people in the family that I was going on a road trip. I’m gone. On the road for four days to Springfield, Missouri and back. See you later!

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Click any marker for a secret fishing tip. Zoom in and out from space down to a single house and use the hand to pull yourself up and down the coastline, it’s amazing!

This is a great time of the year to go fishing. A lot of fisherman these days will glance at webcams before they go out. The Internet will take you there live in three seconds. I’ve noticed that these water proof webcams usually make things look dingier and darker than they really are. BUT… you can watch to see if anybody’s taking pictures of their catch at Deep Sea Headquarters, if there’s seaweed on the beach at PINS, watch cars lining up for the ferry to see how long the lines are running. Each of the photos down this page will open up a central coastal webcam.

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Last week Haley and I carved pumpkins but apparently the Archer girls are just not as skilled- our pumpkins were a little special- we used old steak knives and I free handed mine- but even though my slit-nose pumpkin was a little unconventional the Olmos Bharmacy still wanted mine so now its sitting on a table outside their door. Take note that the optometrist’s pumpkin has one eye that is bigger than the other- Tonight I’m carving pumpkins again and we’ll see if my second attempt is better than my first…

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but Mitch and Hillary had a flock of little David sized humans at their house yesterday for his birthday party. He loved it. Hillary may be emailing some photos so these are just a couple of teasers for aunts, uncles and cousins around the world.

Mitch has become the suburban Dad with a video camera.

San Antonian David Webb at the bat.

Vann Allan says “What do you mean cupcakes? If there’s cupcakes then give me one because I haven’t had one yet.” “Chocolate beard, what you do mean chocolate beard?”

David and his buddy. Comedians.

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So last night around 5 pm I started throwing up blood. So I tried to wait it out but by 10:30 I couldn’t take it any more. So Sean took me to North East Methodist and it took 7 hours to see a doctor. I realized where I went wrong was I went to a hospital that accepts people w/o insurance. I have great insurance I need to find the expensive hospitals if I want to be helped in a timely manner. Also they tried to stick a tube down my nose to collect samples from my stomach and it turns out I have small nasal passages because it hurt so bad, got stuck, and bled everywhere. So I got a cat scan and everything is ok as far as there is no ulcer but I do have elevated white blood cell count so something is going on. So I need to go see a gastrologist and have a camera put down my throat. Sounds like fun. Not really. Well it is 10 am and I am just now getting to bed. Goodnight everyone!

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From BoingBoing:
For Weekend America’s Halloween show this year we invited some writers to come up with scary stories that last no longer than half a minute. We did it last year too and it was lots of fun. I figure scary stories are fun but honestly who has time for the whole “he walked down the hall, step…by…step” nonsense, GET TO THE ACTION, I always say.

So this year we have an interesting crew: David Rakoff, Dana Gould, comics creator Richard Sala, a children’s book writer, a horror writer, all adhering to the strict 30 seconds or less rule.

It’s on the air 10-25 or found online here: Tales of Terror. Here’s last year’s edition, which featured Neil Gaiman among others.

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beautiful outdoor architecture site called Modern Outdoors Lots of category links on the side.

This is a moleskine and these are examples of them being used like this. Like graphic novels of personal art.

If you read this you’ll understand a lot more about motor oil. It’s more interesting than you think. You’re thinking zero but it’s more. You depend on oil, you know. Read ahead a little and you’ll get the drift. 0w-20? ZEROw-20? This guy thinks so.

If you’re interested in the music business, check the new LaLa out. Songs only 10 cents. How about three for a quarter? And this is what Lefstz sez about it. And then what Bill Nguyen said back. I think this is the readers’ digest version; you pay a dime but don’t get the MP3. You’re buying a

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