Day 24

Who else is exhausted today besides me? My body clock is so messed up. Between being in Pacific Time Thursday and Friday, coming back to Central time for about 10 hours Friday night, waking up at 6am to fly to Cleveland where I was in Eastern time, and the gaining the hour Saturday night, the dry-mouth vodka induced 7am wakeup Sunday morning and then flying back to Chicago and Central time yesterday - I'm just beat down. Today is a strange day, I came back to a ton of work and a lot on my mind. I woke up at 6:15 for no reason and lied in bed listening to Howard Stern. It was pitch dark. I hate daylight savings time. Anyways, I have a general feeling of malaise over me today. It's gray and eerie out there and its Halloween.

On to my least favorite Holiday of the year as an adult. The two nights I dread the most are always Halloween and New Years. Nothing worse than drunken morons dressed up like bumblebees, Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, or the oldest of bits "70's guy" or a pimp. Talk about the most tired costume ever. I never liked it in college either, even though many of my friends loved it. To my boys Teddy and The Buatch, this is like the Super Bowl of nights out. Teddy has gone as the Unibomber, Saddam Hussein, Magnum PI, and the campus freak "Dillon's guy" in college. Then there's me and Sean, who in college dressed in our normal clothes on Halloween and when asked what we were, we said "cool frat guys." I'm sure the majority of my readers do not agree with my sentiments, but as a wiseman once said "opinions are like a-holes, everyone's got one."

All of that being said, I love Halloween for little kids. I have great Halloween memories with my father taken us into Shaker on Lymon Circle where they had the best decorations and the scarriest houses. I used to hate that we had to have our parents go through the candy before we ate it. The classic old wives tale was that people put tacks in the candy to mess with kids. Was there anything worse than the house who gave you a Unicef donation and not candy? Seeing pictures of Jace in his Thomas the Train costume last year was so cute. He is going as a Train Conductor this year. I asked him Saturday what he says on Halloween and he responded "Trick or Treat, Candy please!" Great stuff.

Props go out to the great Julie D for hooking me up with that great Timbuk 2 bag. Check out her stuff at www.timbuk2.com I love my Commute.

Song of the Day: "Soul Dream" by Greyboy Allstars. Known in these circles as "Song 1."