Nothing This Weekend!

Despite my positive outlook from Friday when I talked about starting my new game, I actually got nothing accomplished on it this past weekend. Two things happened.

First, Saturday was Halloween and my daughter's soccer team had an away-game. The game was delayed for a while because no referee showed up. By the time we got home, it was almost time for the trick-or-treat to start. Everyone quickly ate dinner and got into costume. The rest of the night was spent walking around the neighborhood asking for candy.

And then that stupid clock-change thing happened. Actually the inspiration for today's comic, I hate Daylight Savings Time. Well, Daylight Savings Time itself is fine - I hate changing the clocks. It messes me up. It doesn't matter that in the fall we supposedly gain an hour of sleep. I never really do. Especially when there are young children in my house that don't care what the clock says. They are going to get up at the same time no matter what. And now I'm getting hungry an hour before lunch, getting tired at 9:00 in the evening, and just off all day. Why do we do this to ourselves? I'm a big proponent of eliminating the whole time change thing. But I'm also in favor of eliminating local time zones and switching to metric time. Nobody cares what I think.

So instead of some Phaser game code and examples, today I'm just sharing a picture of my kids in their Halloween costumes. We get back to software on Wednesday.

Tasha, on the left, is wearing her R2-D2 dress, which I think counts as a costume. She stayed at our house and handed out candy while my wife and I walk around with the other two. Gladrielle, in the center, is Anna from Frozen. Alexandria, on the right, is Sabine from Star Wars Rebels. We had a total Star Wars theme going if you count the fact that "Anna" held a light saber while we walked around. Gladrielle thinks that Anna might have Force powers. They're all owned by Disney now, so it's plausible.

Here's the comic for today, although this 1-frame sample doesn't do it justice. You have to visit the site.

Amphibian.com comic for 2 November 2015

Give Me Some Sugar

Since today is the day when children typically put on costumes and go around to their neighbors' houses to ask for candy, I thought I'd take a minute to let everyone know about my favorite candies.

Milkfuls

I love Milkfuls. Like so many other things (why did they take away Dunkin Donuts Cereal???), they are no longer available. At least not in the United States. I think they might still be sold in other parts of the world.

Werther's Original

Werther's Original is another one that I really enjoy. Thankfully, these are still around. I used to eat these all the time at my grandparents' house.

They're not in stores this time of the year, but around Easter I buy a lot of Cadbury Mini Eggs. I absolutely hate the Cream Eggs, but the Mini Eggs are just chocolate with a hard candy shell. Like an M&M I suppose, but with more chocolate and the shell tastes better.

I don't really love chocolate. I like it, but rarely eat it by itself. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are good, but the small size Reese's Eggs they have around Easter (again, Easter beats Halloween for candy) are the best. The chocolate-to-peanut-butter ratio is perfect in those - more so than any other variety.

Stock up on these at Easter!

Snickers bars are okay, and just about the only American candy bars I will eat. I have to say that my favorite candy bar is the Nestle Lion Bar. I got hooked on those things when I was in the U.K. back in 1995. I buy several whenever I find them anywhere in the United States, which is rare. Also, the U.K. Kit Kat is far superior to the U.S. version due to the use of Nestle chocolate in their European production.

My all-time favorite

Are you hungry now? Put on a costume and go knock on your neighbor's door.

Amphibian.com comic for 31 October 2014