happy halloween

From our new Volvo until now, we've been fairly busy in our corner of the world. On Friday, I found out that the venerable old (1964) Cal Fed building at Carson & Bellflower is slated for demolition, which means a story. It's been a whirlwind since then.

I did my show on Saturday A.M. and in the P.M., I took Sylvia to Hof's for her birthday two for one dinner, half slab of ribs for me, seafood plate for her. Great food; good time. We were colorful, noticed most everyone else, especially the young, of which we're not, wears black, white or drab.

Sunday was an uneventful Halloween day and even less so at night, with just three or less or more trick or treaters, despite our best efforts to decorate invitingly. Maybe having a burned out and abandoned house next door has something to do with it.

That night, Sylvia went to Barb's for celebrations, I stayed home, didn't need to see the great pumpkin, big pumpkin, or whatever. This A.M., we took the turbo to Russ's, hoping he gives it a great report...we think he will, but you and I never know. Then we stopped at the church rummage, 4 shirts for a buck, then to 99 Cents store to get for sale sign for the 81 Volvo.

As we were leaving, a really old man (80 years old to be exact) was picking up shards of headlight glass between his beat-up Mercedes and our wagon. He told us he hit the side of our car, broke his $80 light and caused a tiny bit of our stripping to come loose from the wheel well. I guess it was Volvo 1, Mercedes 0. We told him to forget about it.

Waiting to hear from Prach Ly, world famous Cambodian rapper, about a story and his own personal tour of Long Beach, which I look forward to doing.