It's the little old lady from Pasadena. The little old lady from Pasadena (Go granny, go granny, go)

Photos now online:
Remodeling Monster part 19: Painting Touch-up, Spare Room Closet Repairs (03/04-Oct-2007)
... part 20: Water Heater Closet, Painted Shed (09-Oct-2007)
... part 21: Guest Room Floor, Water Heater Closet Checking (15/16-Oct-2007)
Anime Los Angeles 4 barbecue and meeting (14-Oct-2007)
Caroline's Birthday Party (20-Oct-2007)
Library Night at Malibu Speed Zone (20-Oct-2007)
Masonic Book Hand-Off (21-Oct-2007)
LASFS/Aftermeetings part 299: Coral Cafe (25-Oct-2007)

The picture of aurorahermione is from the birthday party.

Zoom, zoom. The weekend of the 20th was a busy weekend for us. midnight_rocket's birthday party AND a gathering of library_lynn's co-workers at Malibu Speed Zone (i.e, go-kart racing). On top of that, colleency asked for help with sodas for a Costumers Guild West halloween party in Orange County.

( Then on Sunday, I took my father to meet a brother Mason from San Diego fandom, to pass on a bunch of his old Masonic books )

Oh, and I heard a new light bulb joke.
How many past masters does it take to change a light bulb?
That's already been addressed.

Halloween: we got 46 kids this year. Possibly a few more blew us off because the line was too long. Doing a trick to get a treat takes some time to process. I need to print up a dozen or twenty extra copies of some of the Pumpkin Carols so we can handle crowds more readily. We gave out the jumbo Pixy Stix -- there's only 50 in the case, so when we handed out the last few I was really worried we'd run out. (Usually we get 30-36 kids.)

A few of the kids came prepared with something to do. But most of them ended up singing a pumpkin carol, hopping on one foot while turning around, doing a couple of cartwheels, or the stick trick (let go of broomstick, twirl, grab it again before it falls). For the under-five set, we were satisfied if they could hop up and down for each year of their age.

I think I want to get a "plank" like the pirates use for the "Rum Party." A "walk the plank" trick might be fun, and easy to store from year to year.

I need to go out and get some kind of light-up halloween decoration. Need to have a little pizazz so they notice our house.

Oh, and how's animelosangeles coming along? Pretty good. We had a long meeting in mid-October. (Next meeting's in December, because Loscon gets in the way of things.) We barbecued up lunch at noon, and got down to business about 1:30; we were mostly done by 4 o'clock with the general meeting, and other smaller meetings broke out after that.

The hotel's playing silly games with us. Their construction means that we're missing about four rooms that we hoped to use, so things will be tight. Our room nights are strong, though. We'll be sharing the hotel with West Point Academy -- we don't know if it's a recruiting thing, or an alumni meeting or what.

We do still have a number of positions that need to be filled. If you're interested in helping out, the Committee Structure and Roster is on the website -- lots of places with "Help Wanted" on them.

I'll be at Pacific Media Expo, the 9th to 11th of November; then in Indianapolis on business, the 12th through the 16th. Anyone in the Indiana area want to meet up?