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THIS IS ROBERT TALKING . . . Or, the Dark Side of Etiquetteer :-)

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Hallowe'en Night, 2018

October 31, 2018

1) Yes, I brought the Weeping Baby Pumpkin Heads to the office today, but in boxes to prevent the tragedy of last year.

1a) But the haters don’t have to worry! Hallowe’en is when Weeping Baby Pumpkin Heads go back in storage until next October. The glass pumpkins stay out through Thanksgiving.

1b) I’ve nicknamed 3.0 (seen at left above) “Stepford,” since the eyes are hollow.

2) On the train home I sat near a woman in a Scooby-Doo bodysuit and a guy with a costume involving a sword.

3) I made a list on the way home - no lie, I wrote it out and everything! - of several things I could do tonight. Not even one of those items included the phrase “ Fall into a deep sleep at 7 PM for three hours,” and yet somehow that is exactly what happened.

3a) Three hours!

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