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Happy Halloween

 There is a trick-or-treating tradition at our park.  We all set up tables with treats on them and sit outside to visit.  We put small cans of cold Budweiser and little packets of M&Ms on our table.  People, some in costume, wander by to talk and sample.  Some other tables were more sophisticated than ours.  They had jello shots, rum balls, and raspberry moonshine.  There were little tiny specialty drinks in little tiny paper cups.  There are a lot of happy friendly people here. We put a lighted pumpkin out on our table, but with little effect.  The trick-or-treating started at 5 and was over by 6.  It was still daylight.  A good time was had by all though, a nice trick-or-treating tradition.  
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I’m guaranteed to be wrong

 There is a convention; a courtesy among truck drivers.  When one truck is passing another, the truck that is being passed blinks his headlights when the passing truck is clear and can move back into the right lane.  In recognition of that courtesy, the passing truck blinks his running lights as a thank you.  It’s a pleasant convention; and we find ourselves participating in it when we’re driving the freeway in our motorhome.  We are, after all, about the size of a truck, and our motorhome is equipped with buttons on the steering wheel to facilitate the conversation. Trucks blink us over.  We blink trucks over.  Most trucks include us in the ritual, but not all.  That’s where the question comes in.  When we’re passing, I can’t always tell which trucks blink us and which don’t.  If I’m not looking in the right side mirror to change lanes at the moment the trucker blinks us, I miss the blink.  If they blink me over, I should blink them thank you.  If they don’t blink me over, I don’t need to say thank you.  But if they blinked me over and I just didn’t see, and I don’t blink them back, I’ll be rude. Whatever I choose, I’m guaranteed to be wrong some of the time, so I choose to blink thank you to every truck I pass.  That way, when I am wrong, at least I’ve erred on the side of civility.  
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RE: Family pictures

Oops.  Brainlock.  (Or Spellchecksabotage.) Arie Paige’s name is spelled Paige. 

From: Steve Taylor [mailto:spt@thetaylorcompany.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:08 PM
To: Bill Taylor (Bill Taylor); David Taylor (David Taylor); Tom Taylor (Tom Taylor)
Subject: Family pictures

  We’re all excited about the baby Arie Page Taylor.      Judy and I will be headed to Colorado in a couple weeks for the big event!