Halloween, as long-time readers know, is my favorite holiday. It (a) requires no gift purchases; (b) doesn't demand the cooking of a fancy meal; (c) allows one to roam the neighborhood and get free candy. That all works well for me.
I am fortunate enough to live in one of the nicest neighborhoods in the Bay Area, but it butts right up against one of the worst (East Palo Alto). Because EPA basically sucks out loud, all the kids (including teenagers) cross the various bridges into Crescent Park each Halloween for a safe, lucrative trick-or-treat mission. It thus gets really, really, really crowded with a lot of (rather rude, pushy) children.
I thus made a pointed effort to navigate my kids and their friends away from the swarm to a very nice, but much less crowded, part of the neighborhood. The end point of this journey was Marissa Mayer's house, which always is really well-decorated for the season.
Below is a picture of one of the pumpkins. Because a kid's head is near the shot, it makes it seem like the pumpkin is on the small side; it's not. It's something like six feet across.
Earlier in the day, I also enjoyed my 4th reason for Halloween, which is the opportunity to dress up (believe me, if you lived my life, you'd want to pretend to be someone else too). I appeared on my regular Tastytrade show as Tim Sosnoff. I don't think I've ever received so many positive emails from viewers.
