cellio | Halloween

The city declared that trick-or-treating will occur tonight between 5:30 and 7:30. There were times when that sort of thing made sense, back when single-income couples/families were the dominant thing and 40-hour work weeks were normal, but how many houses in my neighborhood are going to have someone home at 5:30 tonight? Certainly ours won't. I'll probably get home a bit before 6:30, and Dani will do about the same. Given that it's dark by 5:30 or 5:45 now *anyway*, they really wouldn't lose anything on the safety front by making it, say, 7-9pm.

Mind, I don't really care about Halloween; I just don't get into it. But this just seems like a bad idea for a lot of people.

Dani likes to give out comic books. (It's his token pruning of his vast collection...) I told him he's on his own for that, and bought a bag of candy in case I get home first. I figure that'll hold them until Dani gets home and takes over.