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Last night we and some other folks went over to Lisa's place to watch Nightmare Before Christmas. What fun. Joe declared the moral of the film to be "you can find true love when hell freezes over."

We spent a lot of time talking about Space Ghost Coast to Coast, as it turned out that Georg, Joe, Ray and I were all pretty big fans of the show. Unfortunately Lisa had never seen it, so that particular part of the conversation probably dragged on a bit for her. After we got home Georg and I dug out some old videotapes we had made of Space Ghost, back in the day when it used to be on after our bedtime. As opposed to now, when it's not on at all. But according to Ray there's a DVD coming out sometime this month, with new episodes no less.

I'm still thinking about Lina's surgery. The vet said that the veterinary college would be state of the art and would do a really good job (which opinion has been repeated by several other people). But, would be more expensive. The question in my mind is, would the merely competent surgery she'd get at the vet's office be problematic? Would she be more likely to limp permanently, or have arthritis in that knee? I don't feel the need to take her to the best place just for the sake of it being the best. But if it would have a substantial impact on her future health, then it's worth the extra money. I'm going to call the vet tomorrow morning and ask her about this.

Two things I forgot to mention about Halloween. First, Lisa handed out cute little glow in the dark thumb puppets, which we named Bingo, Pogo, and He Who Must Not be Named. We spent much time wrestling our thumb puppets in between trick or treaters. Second, I never knew what a pain in the ass it is to wear false eyelashes. I kept thinking that I had something in my eye because I could see them on the edge of my vision. Also I don't know if I didn't use enough glue or if I was sweating too much or what, but they came loose on one end. I don't think it was too noticeable, they weren't hanging off my eyes, but it made the "ack there's something huge in my eye oh wait it's those damned eyelashes" feeling worse. They did make a huge difference in my appearance though. I had Georg take a photo of me wearing just one of them. Freaky huh? That's even before I put on the Cleopatra eyeliner. Speaking of which, who knew that liquid eyeliner was so much harder to apply than the pencil kind. I ended up having to make this humongous thick line to cover my unsteadiness. Which probably worked out well for the mod look, now that I think about it.