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AMY SMITH LINTON

Sliding into Month Eleven of the Year

11/1/2016

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The "fun size" candies start coming home as early as mid-September.

​I'm a sucker for a good deal, and it's appealing to load up on the cornucopian selection of kid-sized chocolate bars in the grocery store. Probably a signifier for an under-served childhood.  

And without fail, the supply fails to meet the trick-or-treating demand. Somehow, we find ourselves in a darkened house with only three or four dejected-looking candies lurking at the bottom of orange plastic jack-o-lantern when the sun sets.  
It's like the Halloween miracle: the feast of the ever-dimininishing supply of caramel-peanut-goodness.

On the other hand, the Viking outfits turned out well.

If not for the football game, we might have entertained ourselves by roaming the neighborhood, thumping our battle axes against our sheilds.  

Solidifying our reputation as the local oddballs.​
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And with this annual candy ritual complete, we mark the halfway point of the football season. Followed rapidly by the slightly panicky realization that the Earth has nearly completed its annual circuit.
Although it's random (Is the solar system really a Capricorn? Dour and humorless? Seething with ambition?), the closing of the calendar brings NaNoWriMo. Whoohoo! 

The National Novel Writing Month is (I guess) a bit like running a marathon: it's ridiculous and miserable and neato and difficult.

​Competitors/participants have 30 days to write a 50,000-word novel.  That's a short novel, but even more –– it's a tiny chunk of time for a mountain of words.  The math says 1,667 words each day.  

With time taken out for Thanksgiving and various sailing and traveling days, my average would need to jump up to 2,273 words a day.  Gah!

Not saying I am going to finish, but...


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The sword is mightier than the battle-axe. And that battle-axe HAS a battle-axe.
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George Albaugh
11/2/2016 03:02:16 pm

Amy: As you no doubt know, horned hats predate the Viking era--perhaps such head gear was a fashion statement for the funnelbeaker culture or maybe the pitted ware culture. Can't imagine a trendy, fashionista Viking being caught dead with horns in his/her helmet. Talk about your old man's "old hat"! (not that it isn't a good look, just a tad dated dear)

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Amy
11/2/2016 06:41:57 pm

Hey George
You are absolutely right, not to mention that you are a Viking by blood yourself.

We've been watching the History Channel's Vikings, so we actually knew this about the head-gear, but honestly, the horns elevate our homemade archaic-tunic and battle-axe costume from the generic to the particular (even if erroneous) Viking-wise.

Homemade: the horns are fabric so as to avoid disembowelment and eye-trauma while sailing, and all the metal stuff is actually wood, so we didn't inadvertently turn into anchors.

Happily, Jeff and I are not about fashion –– we are statement
dressers on these rare occasions when we dress up. This statement was something like, "Look out, Valhalla!"

Thanks for stopping by!

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