This old A&J is from October, 1995. Note the email address in the third panel. No, don’t write me there; it won’t do either of us any good. I called it to your attention, so I could mention that Arlo & Janis was one of the first strips out there to make use of email. Innovation was so easy back then! Speaking of innovation, I have seen the beta version of the new GoComics website, and you can, too. Go to the GoComics site and select “blog” from the menu there. Scroll down until you find the post about the new changes, and there’s a link there. It isn’t exactly what I was expecting, but I also was told this was to be a multi-phase project, so I will withhold comment. You, on the other hand, needn’t feel so constrained.
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Good morning Villagers….
Today’s real time strip….a keeper 🙂 And Jackie’s right…good one Jimmy!!!
Steve, so glad to read about your walk….and the gorgeous day you had to benefit your walk.
I think yesterday just about cinched my decision of what to do…unemployment or retire. At the other henhouse, the feed bins went dry on Thursday and they were to start ‘terminating’ the hens today….they pushed that back to Wednesday….with no feed delivery. They. The Corp, made that decision….I am very angry about this, very upset and I am going to do my best to let it be known. I have to phone in totals every day, and have made friends with the lady who answers the phone at the Corp….she’s going to hear about it. They don’t deserve to starve to death, if it bleeds, it has a heart.
May your Monday be a good one, and oh, Boo!
GR 😉 I will keep ”dropping” in……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld1l4Ud7jp8
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Busy again. Son’s house has floor crew due soon. Also picking up grandkids.
God bless us every one.
God bless the USA.
Good morning. I need to call my insurance agent and tell him about wreck. I reported to Allstate home offices already but need to call Larry and Susan personally.
Mark must be asleep in his room, no sound from guest room! Just Dickens and I over here. Noisy highway but it is Monday.
Have missed Halloween this year, along with lots of other things I love. This has been an often period of missed chances, missed events, missed people. You can just grab at the ring as the carousel goes around and around.
Reason Mark is so quiet, he went to eat breakfast and locked himself out in hall! He had to call me to come let him in. Mark is a friend, not a boyfriend, there is a difference of course. He didn’t want to wake me up. He had managed to cause the burglar lock to drop over the door and lock him out.
Almost never eat things on motel buffets, seldom healthy. I do like room service in good hotels but not breakfast bars in LQ.
All: Orcalab highlights, humpback whales now. Close expl ore. Peace,
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Debbe, that is heart-breaking.
It’s Halloween and I’m dressing as a lost, confused, disabled retiree. No, wait, I am a lost, confused, disabled retiree.
Trucker Ron: That is quite an accomplishment. You certainly made an impact in 2 lives. My daughter saved a woman at the gym that she worked at the time and I’m not sure if she ever understood the impact. She did not like the job and was wondering what purpose she had in life. I told her God had her at the right place at the right time that day. Right now she is about to get her 2nd BS degree, this time in Mechanical Engineering and she is fretting about staying at the place she is interning for less pay or go out and test the market. I told her that she is not getting married and a job is not necessarily a lifetime commitment, but she should be an attractive hire, so she should try to get the best possible position. That might mean more money or not.
A tip of hat to JJ for today’s strip. Just awesome.
I live in a gated retirement community. The bad news is that there’s no kids going Trick or Treat. The good news is that there’s no candy in the house to tempt this diabetic.
Had a late afternoon dental PM visit. Dental staff dressed up for Halloween. I enjoyed seeing some plunging necklines that are not normally a staple at the practice. One assistant was in a bunny costume, but unfortunately the big pink fuzzy kind of bunny, not the Playboy kind.
I was hoping for a slutty vampire like I saw at my Credit Union one year, but I settled for the receptionist’s semi-slutty witch costume…which of course featured one of the plunging necklines. Overall, I judged it to be a “treat”.
My part-time job at the local state technical college gave me the chance to see a lot of lovely young ladies in costume today, but there were no plunging necklines. The instructors are mostly female and they insist on decorum.
‘The bad news is that there’s no kids going Trick or Treat.’
This community is not gated, but there are usually no kids except for occasional visiting grandkids. A few residents leave their outside lights on and maybe also have decorations, but traffic is light and most of us simply shutter and leave lights off. To me that’s good news. Chacun à son goût.
Elaine used to enjoy t.or.t visits in our old neighborhood, and I helped out. Good marriages work that way.
Friends, ages ago, were surprised by a bunch of their other friends, all w/ empty cocktail glasses: ‘Trick or treat!’ Fortunately, they were the sort that kept a selection of ingredients on hand. All I have is a dozen kinds of good beer.
Peace,
Slow night on our street. Only had 3 groups of trick-or-treaters for a grand total of 14 kids. Did hear one mom say “best house yet” and another “I’m totally stealing your idea next year” (that would be our usual routine of giving out little bottles of water.)
I was raised not to go t/t on Halloween or any other time; it was frowned upon. It was especially frowned upon because “ministers’ children should not be beggars”, or words to that effect. I guess the European immigrants & their offspring – which composed almost all the folks in the area – brought with them the idea that, for a clergyman’s kids to go door-to-door asking for handouts was insulting to the population, as it implied that the populus wasn’t offering enough salary to said clergyman. Whether or not that was the reasoning, I do not know, but I don’t have any better reasons available.
On the other side of the coin, my MBH was raised to go t/t and even do some harmless pranking in her tiny town of under 275 souls. She seems to have turned out better than I in spite of that!
Did our kids do it? Let me just say that the afore-mentioned MBH had much greater influence than I.
Do we now give out candy? Yeah – in the three-digit amounts. Tonight, we ran out after only 2:15, thanks to at least 7 different groups of 5+ individuals each showing up. A few even rang our bell after we ran out and, thus, had doused the outside light. [“no light” = “don’t bother”, for any reason whatever]. One group of unknown size even rang the bell a full hour after we ran out and also quite a bit after [the town’s edict of stopping by] 7pm.
If anything, I wish the little ones were local, but they drive ’em in from unknown places by the van load. IMHO, such does not set a suitable example, but I realize I’m in the minority.
c x-p. ‘I realize I’m in the minority.’ Glad I’m not alone re t/t. It’s foolish, wasteful, bad for their teeth, and not much of a source for lessons in behavior / citizenship. A pox on it!
Pranks are rare here. One time, well below freezing but also well after Hallowe’en, our old house got egged. Of course it froze solid, so graced our entry area for some time. No idea who did it, though a couple of nearby residences housed some likely candidates. Of course, could have been fallout from campus: disappointed test-takers or anti-Enlightenment sorts. But a few minor incidents in over 46 yr. at the old house isn’t bad.
Peace,
c x-p: We may be in the minority but we have plenty of good company.
GM Debbe
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Good luck in whatever endeavor you choose.
I know you will do well.
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Don’t give up on your boss. There are other egg buyers out there.
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Have been driving all afternoon and night and ready to quit. I am tired and frankly exhausted. Back in Little Rock in LQ motel I use over here. Used my points for another two room suite so they hopefully are holding it. Not how I planned to spend Halloween.
But I am wearing a suitable outfit, snakeskin flats and hand bag in gray and black, Ash gray silk leggings, a mesh black tunic with gray ruffling, gray and black silk chiffon flowing long jacket with black palms all over and black onyx beads, antique silver bracelets.
Oh yes, my straps and the tank under mesh tunic are all black and match. I may not be high class but I am not white trash. Not totally anyway. Happy Halloween.
Could probably come up with a slutty costume out of my clothing inventory but have an unworn complete costume for Killer Queen from two years ago. Have to find somewhere suitable to wear it someday.
Actually my favorite unworn costume is a Black Widow costume with bustier. Still nowhere to wear so many spiders and so little material.
https://youtu.be/2ZBtPf7FOoM
Perhaps we can find a place.
TR: “Plunging necklines”, relatively speaking. Lower cut than the scrub tops they normally wear, but not unprofessional. Besides, I’ve been going there so long, they’re all friends, especially the “witchy” receptionist. We used to work together. Still a “treat”, though. She’s well-endowed. 🙂
Lot’s of good memories of Halloween from when I was young…and we never even left the old neighborhood.
Debbe 😉 Seasonal music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pzvqunZlLc