…and boy are my arms tired.

Didn’t really eat all that much candy, actually. Although my respect for junk food is ever present, I’ve found that my tastes for sugary treats has been edged out by my aforementioned favourite food stuff, chips and salsa. I will have a chocolate bar every now and then, but, honestly, once you get a little old you start to worry about cavities. Darn you age! Darn you all to heck! Poop!

Yup! Got a little Tourettes Syndrome there, but had to keep it clean because of the all ages blog thing.

I promised pictures of the pumpkins and now I will deliver pictures of the pumpkins. Just know that they suck! The pictures, not the pumpkins. I accidentally took my camera, which is super spectacular, as I’ve mention before, off of the setting that automatically senses all the surroundings light, temperature and smells while enacting an impenetrable force field around the viewing area so as not to allow any disturbances to interfere with my shot. Oh, it also makes me coffee and rubs my shoulders when I ask it to (don’t tell Michelle). Somehow I put the camera on some sort of setting called “The Operator Knows What He’s Doing!” Why would I do that? I wouldn’t do that! It even came with a DVD that explains in simple, one syllable words how to do everything with this camera, and I haven’t watched it! No way! It’s instructions! I’m a man! Sorta! Exclamation mark!

Yeah, pictures. Here they are:



This one was Rylee’s, but I hesitate to say that either pumpkin belongs to either daughter because it is I who ultimately carves the stupid things. Rylee had a small mishap with the tiny saw that she broke from our carving kit. It involved blood but not a lot of it. I had to dig the broken piece of the saw out of the pumpkin.



This design was chosen by Kristen (there, that’s a better way of saying it). Can you see what it is? Probably not because of my craptacular picture. It’s a wolf! Kristen picked this design after we had destroyed the pumpkin carving kit, and I seriously tried to talk her out of it. My suggestion of a pumpkin with a near perfect circular hole for a face was met by a blank stare. Thankfully (hah!) we were able to rustle up the borrowed kit (see last post). Kristen thinks it looks like the Husky symbol.

And finally, here are some blurry pictures of the girl’s costumes:



Rylee is a Geisha, not a zombie at an oriental restaurant. Some people mistake “Geisha” for prostitute, but if you think I’d let my daughter be one of those for Halloween, you've greatly mistaken my powers as a father. Prostitutes have bows in the front, Geisha’s do not. She bought that dress herself with the birthday money her GG gave her.



Kristen is recycled, meaning that she wore some costume we had lying around and wasn’t really into Halloween other than the fact that she’d collect humongous sacks of sugar. I believe this costume was called “The Medieval Princess.”

I packaged up my animation for the challenge, but I didn’t get to finish it due to coming up with the idea really late in the game. For what I pulled off in the last six days, I’m really rather proud. Let it play through once before you really watch it as the file starts to play before it’s completely loaded. I needed to put in a preloader which allows the file to completely load and gives the viewer a chance to start it when they want to, but, alas, time was not on my side.

Yup! I had two whole months to do this but pretty well did the entire thing in the last six days. Why? Am I lazy? Nope! I had an awesome idea at first, but like I said in the forum, it grew into something more than I could contain in this challenge. It will escape from my brain onto the computer one day. Also, I have a metric tonne of false start .fla files on my computer for the dry spell that came after I gave up my first idea. They all sucked...

...until last week when I came up with this idea. I thought it was doable, and I was right. It's not done, but hopefully done enough for the challenge. I know it has a non-ending, but look for that in the future. This is literally my first animation!

I will continue to work on it, but not at the pace I’ve been keeping the last 6 days. I need to clean it up, put in some sound and add the ending I intended. Then maybe I’ll submit it on some of those Flash sites I go to every now and then. Until then, enjoy The Pixie, The Cyclops And The Golden Apple!