{"id":78134,"date":"2026-10-31T17:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=78134"},"modified":"2026-10-31T17:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:03:44","slug":"happy-halloween-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=78134","title":{"rendered":"Happy Halloween 2026!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We did it, once again.  Thirty-one days of posts, ending with a Halloween celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight, I&#8217;ll put on a fancy shirt, a cape, and a crown.  I&#8217;ll be King of something.  If the last month is any indication, King of Blog posts.  It doesn&#8217;t have to be much.  I&#8217;m dressing up a little bit, but mostly hanging out in the living room to answer the door and give full-sized candy bars to the kids that come knocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier today, I recorded episode 6 of Write Something Good.  I&#8217;ll post a more thorough announcement for it on Wednesday, when it&#8217;s available.  It&#8217;s uploaded to scheduled to roll out on Spotify and YouTube.  I&#8217;m afraid the YouTube video this time is going to be pretty bad.  The software I used last time would not accept a background.  OBS worked, and it looked fine for the first minute or two.  Then it started turning into a slide show, and I didn&#8217;t know it until I&#8217;d finished the recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m going to have to find a better way of recording these things.  Maybe spend some money on some specialized software.  I&#8217;m not going to worry about it for at least a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Halloweens, I look backwards and remember my Dad.  He was born February 14th, 1914 and died October 31st, 1988.  I still miss my Dad, and I wish he could meet my kids as they are now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead of looking back, I want to look forward.  What does November look like for me, especially with regards to my writing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m going to keep posting a blog post a day, until I run out of things to say.  With the election close to completing, I think I&#8217;ll have quite a bit I <em>have<\/em> to say.  We live in interesting times, and if the democrats take The House and Senate, the times will get even more interesting.  I&#8217;m certain the fascist arm of our government will be stretched, trying to block the results of a fair election.  I&#8217;m mostly certain the efforts of the fascists will be thwarted in the courts.  That doesn&#8217;t mean we won&#8217;t have chaos and carnage and other unthinkable, unprecedented things tried by Trump and his goons.  I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll have plenty of things to say, and I&#8217;m honestly not looking forward to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The original NaNoWriMo org is gone, but there will still be lots of people attempting to write 50,000 words in 30 days.  If I write 50,000 words into <em>The Psychic Out of Time<\/em>, I will have a completed first draft.  I very much want to do that.  I don&#8217;t know how feasible it will be, but I&#8217;m going to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is one last convention to attend, which is Loscon.  We&#8217;ll fly down on Thanksgiving and fly back late on the following Sunday.  We&#8217;ll have a table at the con.  I&#8217;m hoping I don&#8217;t spend <em>all<\/em> of my time at the table, but I&#8217;ll do what I must.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s No Shave November for a bunch of folks, but I just got clean shaven.  I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s something I&#8217;ll be participating in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I need to work on my health.  I&#8217;m overweight, with terrible cholesterol, high blood pressure that&#8217;s barely held in check with blood pressure meds, and I&#8217;m tired most of the time.  I need to work exercise into my life.  I&#8217;ll try getting up early tomorrow and getting on the exercise bike for a while.  I have to do something, if not for myself, then for the people that care about me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s the future, I suppose.  In a very short time, my doorbell is going to start ringing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wherever you are, whatever you&#8217;re doing, I hope you have a wonderful Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did it, once again. Thirty-one days of posts, ending with a Halloween celebration. 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