thoroughly Thursday

 Today was one of those pristine fall days, clear skies plenty of sunshine no wind speak of the perfect day for traveling. After coffee this morning that's the Thursday coffee group I decided I would head into the city and go to my old workplace where they are having the annual Halloween function/party. I as a rule have not gone to a lot of these functions. I don't know particularly why but today it seemed like something I should do. I will be there again for another party in less than a month when I play Santa Claus at the regular Christmas function but that's still quite a ways off. I think I really went more for the food than anything else they usually have some simple kind of food you know sloppy joes maybe pizza depending on the event. The Halloween function started at 12:00 noon and would go on till about 3:00. I had to take two buses to get there that's okay I had to figure that in it's a nice day good for traveling.

That was astounded when I got there how many people were there and this huge line one had to endure to get to the food which was laying out on a table fresh from the cooking area. Bella Fair this year was meatballs, sausages in sauce and chips of course. Small individual bags of chips, functional and sanitary. I didn't mind the line I was sitting down. Again I cannot emphasize how many people were there and how many people were in line to get fed. Of course it being Halloween costumes were encouraged and there were many many costumes to be seen. I went as a hobo that's the most simple. I usually just wear a black shirt with a white collar and call myself a priest that works too it's minimal effort. Of course by the time I finally got my food it was quite cold but that was to be expected I had I have a low bar expectation. Staff who remembered me or knew me were quite impressed that I showed up and I think quite happy as well. It really was to a degree of coming home event. There are a number of old work buddies there from when I was there one of them being Julie whose office was next to mine in the old building actually in the new building as well now that I think about it. So Julie, another staff member, Julie's husband Kevin and I all hung out at the table and had lunch together it was kind of nice. We wish that Kim could have joined us he was the thi q1rd part of our group it seemed like back in the old days. But he's like very high up in the echelons of Direction at the center so he had to work to maintain some form of control to the chaos of the Halloween function. I hung around till about 3:00 p.m. when the event was officially over. I didn't really help put anything away or anything like that just talked with a few more folks and actually met the new director who is now basically the director his newness has worn off. He gave me his card and we plan to get together soon he wants to know what I know and I don't blame him..