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Mischief Night
Here in the States, the night before Halloween is known as Mischief Night or a variety of other titles. As the name suggests, it’s a more of a night for tricks than for treats.
Mischief
There’s plenty of mischief going on these days.
In Washington, the Democrats are trying to enact an administrative coup by means of a secretive impeachment process. It hasn’t occurred to them that if they achieve their goals by being lawless, they are essentially condoning lawlessness in response. That could get really ugly. Hopefully, they will be thwarted before they get too far in their ridiculousness.
In the entertainment world, people think that because they’re famous that it makes them policy experts. People who are barely competent to tie their own shoes are holding forth with grand opinions about every subject under the sun, expecting to be taken seriously because they play sports, read “news” off of a teleprompter or pretend to be someone on TV or the movies. Jeez! Stick to the topics you know, folks. Leave reality to the rest of us.
In academia, we’re being inundated with bad ideas of every variety: Global Warming, socialism, revisionist history, Common Core, Political Correctness. It’s horrendous. People graduate college saddled with massive debt, holding degrees that are utterly worthless to them for getting a job that will help them pay off their student loans. All the while, the propaganda their professors have been feeding them echoes back when they bitterly face unpayable bills and dead-end jobs.
Used to be, Mischief Night only came once a year on the 30th of October. Renegade children would toilet paper trees and porches, write on car windows with bars of soap, perhaps even egging the house of someone who offended them. Now it’s mischief without a stop, 24x7x365¼.
Is it any wonder I always look forward to Christmas?
Night
Well, it’s technically Thursday but I still consider it “today” until I actually go to bed. I did get a bunch of stuff “mostly” done today. That is to say, they’re done but need to be uploaded somewhere to be officially finished.
I finished my bonus for Ken’s Puzzle Book Mastery program, but I need to package it up and put it on Warrior Plus so people will have access to the bonus if they buy through my link.
Since the bonus was based on me walking through the creation of my lastest puzzle books, I’ve got to upload those books to KDP so I can add them to my library. The great thing is that I found a site that will add page numbers to PDF files. I was a bit concerned about having a table of contents on documents with no page numbers, but now they will have them. It’s a good thing none have sold yet. Nobody will ever be the wiser…
Even so, it’s close enough to done for me to consider it so. I need to do a bit of uploading and then I can get back to the Sentinels.
🦇👻🎃Halloween!🎃👻🦇
Some people are born for 🦇👻🎃Halloween🎃👻🦇, and some are just counting the days until Christmas. 🎄🦌🎅 ~Stephen Graham Jones
I always enjoyed Halloween as a kid because, well, free candy. Of course, the performance aspect of it was great, too. Getting to dress up as a monster or whatever suited me in any given year was always a treat.
Just the same, I viewed Halloween as the front door to the overall holiday season. Once you have Halloween, you immediately start thinking of Thanksgiving and Christmastime. The better part of the 4th Quarter is basically holidays, parties, seasonal movies, decorations, comfort food of all varieties.
Add to that the fact that it’s no longer hot and it’s easy to see why it’s my favorite time of the year.
I’m getting in somewhere in the general vicinity of the wire today. That’s what I get for getting into all this mischief.