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Is It Hot In Here …

Strange week. I’ve been sort of blank all week. Nothing to write about, nothing to really observe, just sort of sitting here bored to death.

It’s Halloween week, so Wifey™ and I bought a few bags of candy to give to the brats that come knocking at our door Friday night. Of course we bought candy that WE like, because if we are left with the shit, at least we can feed our fat asses.

Funny thing is that for the last few years, at the old apartment, we didn’t get even one kid knocking on our door. I don’t even think we bought candy last year. This year we asked a neighbor about it and she said that kids DO come trick-or-treating at this complex, so now we are prepared. The bitch better be right or we’ve got 25 pounds of candy sitting in our apartment.

It kind of surprises me that kids even go trick-or-treating anymore. When I was a kid, the streets would be filled with kids running from door to door looking for candy. We’d be out there for hours until all the adult got tired of walking around and made us go in. These days, kids get driven in cars from house to house … if they go out at all. Most go to Halloween parties, where they can get their candy fix that way. More and more people don’t even offer candy anymore. It’s depressing as hell. Someday I’ll have a kid and there won’t be any trick-or-treating to do, so I’ll have to set up a god-damned party so my kid can have good memories of Halloween and how he had the cool parents that had the annual Halloween party. Or something like that.

The beginning of the week was hot as hell. The kind of hot where your skin feels like it’s on fire. A couple of days later and it’s colder than the tundra after a snowfall. Its a great way to catch pneumonia.

Living in California, you’d have to wonder if the heat is coming from all those fires going on in Southern California. Alas, it’s not. The cool air should help the firefighters though. I can’t imagine working a fire on an already hot day. Ugh.

The thing about the fire that annoys me is the news reporting. They mention something like, “it’s heading towards an area with over 300 houses, 50 of which are multi-million dollars mansions” or “the firefighters are trying to save a gated community of multi-million dollar estates”. Ugh. The problem I have is … why are those houses so much more newsworthy than the other houses. Like, shouldn’t every house be equally important. I’d hate to think that the efforts to save my house were less, because the firefighters were putting more of their efforts toward saving these “multi-million dollars” estates. Chances are that these “millionaires” can better afford to rebuild their homes than the average Joe.

Anyhow, you’d think people would have learned by now. Those hills go up in flames every few years and every few years people just hope that their house doesn’t burn up. It’s like building your house on the edge of cliff in a place known for landslides, or sticking your house on a fault line or in a place called “tornado alley”. You are taking the chance that your house could be destroyed. If you stick your house in a woodsy canyon, where dry leaves and trees build up … chances are that the next big fire is going to take your house down with it. I guess it’s the price you pay for having nice scenery.

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