My thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy. I hope that everyone can begin to resume a "normal" life sooner than later. It's been interesting watching the news coverage. The reporters go out into the storms, into dangerous places, to tell us normal people NOT to go out into those dangerous places. Go figure. Just be careful in any storm that you happen to be in during the winter season.

I have family flying back to Portland this coming weekend, and I'm fairly confident that they'll be fine getting back, but I wonder what it's going to be like... will the airports be horribly backed up, or will things have settled down by the weekend?  We shall see.

On the west coast, we had earthquakes all over the Canadian coastline last weekend. I think there were over 25 of them, but I lost track after awhile. Fortunately, here in Portland all we've had to deal with lately is just wind, rain, and colder weather, and by cold weather, I'm referring to temperatures dropping down into the 40s. That's October for you.

Halloween is almost here, but I'm not wearing a costume to the hockey game. I'll probably just go as myself; that should be scary enough. 

Cheers!