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Halloween is this weekend, what is everyone doing to celebrate the holiday?

My next question is, happened to October?

Halloween's my favourite time of year, but in this little backwater town, there's never much to actually do. Here's the rundown of this years plan.

On the 30th: Halloween Dance at the town hall, with prizes for Best Costume, Scariest Costume, and "Sexiest" Costume. The chance to see everyone I know embarrass themselves by showing up in their underwear is too good to pass up. Drinks will be a must, but I can't stay too late since I work at 6:30AM the next day. I will be going in a black suit and a Guy Fawkes mask.

On the 31st: Working during the morning. While at work in my retail nightmare, we're only EVER allowed to wear the full approved uniform. To this end we're not allowed to dress up on Halloween. To combat this, I will be placing a rather shiny capital H on my forehead. That evening it's the annual Halloween fireworks show, and back to my house for a movie night.

Also, to answer the second question: The passage of Microsoft Time happened to October.
Microsoft time is a pocket of space-time where events can move quicker or slower at seemingly random intervals. This is how, on a computer, an install can take 5 minutes according to the clock, but be sitting at five minutes for three hours. Similarly this is how a file transfer can claim it will take well over an hour, and be done in ten seconds. In Reality, pockets of Microsoft Time show up without warning, and are completely undetectable to those experiencing them. These events can allow thing like people arriving at work the same minute they left home, or in other cases taking five minutes to walk somewhere only to find that a half hour has passed.

Samsonator wrote:Halloween's my favourite time of year, but in this little backwater town, there's never much to actually do. Here's the rundown of this years plan.

On the 30th: Halloween Dance at the town hall, with prizes for Best Costume, Scariest Costume, and "Sexiest" Costume. The chance to see everyone I know embarrass themselves by showing up in their underwear is too good to pass up. Drinks will be a must, but I can't stay too late since I work at 6:30AM the next day. I will be going in a black suit and a Guy Fawkes mask.

On the 31st: Working during the morning. While at work in my retail nightmare, we're only EVER allowed to wear the full approved uniform. To this end we're not allowed to dress up on Halloween. To combat this, I will be placing a rather shiny capital H on my forehead. That evening it's the annual Halloween fireworks show, and back to my house for a movie night.

Also, to answer the second question: The passage of Microsoft Time happened to October.
Microsoft time is a pocket of space-time where events can move quicker or slower at seemingly random intervals. This is how, on a computer, an install can take 5 minutes according to the clock, but be sitting at five minutes for three hours. Similarly this is how a file transfer can claim it will take well over an hour, and be done in ten seconds. In Reality, pockets of Microsoft Time show up without warning, and are completely undetectable to those experiencing them. These events can allow thing like people arriving at work the same minute they left home, or in other cases taking five minutes to walk somewhere only to find that a half hour has passed.

Sounds like fun! Halloween is my favorite time of the year too. Sadly this year I haven't been in the spirit at all. I think this month came and went way too fast. Today I'm going to Vegas for a day trip. I will come back home and go to a local bar's Halloween Party. They are going out of business and this is the last weekend they are going to be opened. With that said I may go by there tomorrow as well.

Tomorrow I probably go to the movies to avoid the trick or treaters and watch Paranormal Activity 2.

So as it turned out, I stayed at the party til it closed, got home around 2-2:30 in the morning... barely slept, went to work the next day still drunk , and sobered up and started to have a wicked hangover during the course of my shift. Still, wouldn'ta traded that for the world, it was fun!