Halloween came and went without the traditional bacchanalia and debauchery. I took my boys trick or treating at a few houses of friends and family, came home and made mahimahi(dolphin, dorado, etc.) steaks and enjoyed them with my wife and one other friend. Made jerky in my new dehydrator. Then I turned thirty.

not a bad birthday at all, really. but still no bacchanalia either. That requires an absence of children and just the right mix of friends and alcohol. Someone once told me acquaintances are poeple who won't walk up to the edge with you, friends are poeple who will, and good friends are people who will walk right up to the edge let you look over and yank you back by your hair just before you fall. I haven't had that kind of party in a long time