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...but I have to keep posting or you people will lose interest and stopo hitting my site on the internets. You know I plan to build this thing up to be one of the most popular sites, like The Google. Well, lemme see, what has the ol Icker been up to...Well, last night I whipped up a big ol chicken enchilada cassarole, invited the neighbors over and we all chowed down before taking the kids trick-or-treating. We had four kids in all, a pirate, a cowgirl, one of mine as Darth Vader, another one of mine wore his favorite pajamas which have a picture of a gecko and the words GECKO NATION on them. So he went as Gecko Nation. We went to the historic Greensboro Street neighborhood, where the houses are larger than most in the downtown and they have interesting, gingerbread-like details, even a wrought-iron fence here and there. Sadly, only about one quarter of the houses even had lights on. But the ones we found were friendly enough. The kids came home with a lot of candy. Before that, over the weekend, we had dinner at a faculty member's house. Her teenage son was gone, but my kids went into his room and found an arsenal of guns of all shapes and sizes. Most were either toys or dummy guns used for military training, but there were also a few pellet and bb style guns, and a paint gun. Our host said that she had child-proofed everything, but how can you be sure? The food was good and we got out with all our fingers and eyes. I went to iTunes to download "Angel From Montgomery," you know, I did not even realize that was a John Prine song! I am such a doofus. So I will try to get that one down. I am working on my definative list. When I get back in the game I will do a whole set of just covers. How you like them apples. I have "Gimme A Pigfoot" on my iPod already, so if I can figure out the chords I'll do that one too. One thing about Halloween, it's one night I am glad that I am not back in Chapel Hill. The other day I watched a local hunting show on TV where the panel was having a discussion about why is it that in Mississippi it is illegal to hunt over bait. The guys were pretty upset about this. In Texas, Arkansas and Alabama, you can throw corn out on the ground, then sit and wait for something to come along to eat, then move in for the kill. But here you get a ticket for that! I was with them, man. Makes no sense to me. As an environmentalist and amateur ecologist, I don't like the idea of corn or other forage plants being propagated unrestricted in the wild, but you should be able to sit under a white oak tree ankle-deep in acorns if you feel like that's a fair hunt, for goodness sake...