Greetings, once again from ramblings land. In this issue, we explore fun with the alphabet, poorly photographed Halloween decorations, and my disturbing fascination with doing the dishes.

CORRECTION: In my last post, I mentioned it had been four months since I'd previously posted. It had actually been five months. This is because I forgot to include October when I was counting back to June. I do that a lot. I also confuse portions of the alphabet on a semi-frequent basis. In my brain, I want J to come after K, not before it. G should come after H. And Q... well, Q doesn't exist. Looking for a name in a phone book or a word in a dictionary is all kinds of fun when I'm around. I literally have to sing the alphabet song in my head when I'm scanning the pages.

Anyway, I regret the month-counting error. It's likely to happen again, though, so I won't make any false promises otherwise.

In Halloween decorations news, here's the link to photos of most of the decorations I put out this year:

http://specialweb.com/halloween2005

It rained, so they're mainly bunched up under a tent to keep the electronic ones dry. I was darned near asleep by the time I finished decorating, so the pictures aren't great.

The 3rd annual M&M pumpkin is Red (at left). It's a handy dandy fake pumpkin, so I get to keep it for next year. That makes me happy. I did realize after Halloween I forgot to include eyebrows, so I'll make that addition next October. Provided I remember October exists.

In household chores news, I've developed what I consider to be an unfortunate affinity for doing the dishes. We recently bought a new dishwasher after not having one for well over two years, and ever since, I've actually looked forward to loading the darned thing. I get annoyed when it's not full enough to run it.

This is significant, because growing up, one of my chores was to unload the dishwasher. I hated doing it, and would find all kinds of excused to put it off. I'm afraid this means, at the age of 31, I've finally grown up. At least partially. I still refuse to learn how to run the washing machine.

That's all for now... I have to go rest so I stand a chance at being awake Thursday night for the midnight showing of the new Harry Potter movie. Does it mean I'm still young since I'm going to see Harry Potter, or does it mean I'm too old because I'm concerned I won't be able to stay up that late?

Maybe I shouldn't think about it too much. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a dishwasher to unload.