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This is a tried-and-true checklist for making it through Halloween night.

Feel free to pass it on to your friends.

Step 1: Dress warm… because you shouldn’t believe 660News Meteorologist David Spence. Calgary is never mild on Halloween night.

Step 2: Take extra candy bags. That way kids must take part in your “one for you, one for me” philosophy.

Step 3: Put blush on your cheeks. The make-up isn’t part of a costume… it’s so your face looks extra-rosy. The colder you look the more sympathy candy you’ll get from homeowners.

Step 4: Take a thermos full of attitude refresher. What’s that? Coffee mixed with your favourite brand of flavoured Irish cream. I like Baileys.

Step 5: Repeat Step 4.

One final note… Step 5 is key. The attitude refresher keeps you walk another block to hit more houses for candy.

Send your survival advice to ted.henley@rci.rogers.com.

Happy Halloween!

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Kudos to anyone who has boxes of pop cans and water bottles under the kitchen sink.

Soon… being lazy and putting off trips to the bottle depot will pay off.

Go ahead… reach around… and pat yourself on the back.

The province will soon start giving more money for empties.

Pop cans are going from 5 cents to 10.

Beverage containers 1-litre and larger will soon be worth 25-cents instead of 20-cents.

We are going to cash in BIG time.

If only we could get paid for avoiding using a vacuum…

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Comedian Rick Mercer scores the quote of the night during the coverage of the Federal Election results.

After all of the political experts on CBC finish waxing-poetic, Peter Mansbridge walks over to Mercer and asks for his two-cents on the outcome. Mercer says “I think we’re spending too much time on it because we’re missing last call.”

Well said Rick.

Stephen Harper has been given a stronger mandate to lead another minority government.

Yay. (sarcastic laugh goes here)

Harper will have 143 seats in the House of Commons (as long as there aren’t any recounts). That’s a gain of 16 from when the election was called but it’s 12-seats shy of 155 (the magic number to avoid a minority government).

I think stability is a good thing for our economy right now, but deep-down I was hoping for a majority winner.

Oh well… another minority means there will be decent scraps on Parliament Hill.

And atleast I can start looking forward to the end of the race to the White House.

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Calgary’s curbside recycling program begins in Spring 2009.

It’s about time.

It irks me that it’s taking Calgary 20+ years to catch up to the rest of Canada.

Edmonton has had curbside recycling since 1988. Mississauga has had it since 1986. Ottawa has had curbside recycling since the late 1980s.

It amazes me… that we stress the importance of teaching school kids the need to recycle YET Calgary takes so long to get a curbside program in place.

Anyone who complains about the $8 per month price tag should give their head a shake. For the price of two Starbuck’s lattes we can help keep junk out of our landfills.

Count me in… I’m willing to skip the cinnamon and foam for our future.

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Tonight may be a frustrating night… because there are two debates on TV at the same time and I don’t have picture-in-picture.

I will watch the Canadian Leaders’ Debate for sure… but I will definitely flip channels to see Sarah Palin and Joe Biden duke it out in the U.S. Vice-Presidential debate.

Why?

Well… based on Palin’s performance in her interview with Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News… there is a very good chance Palin will crash and burn.

Both debates start at 7:00 PM.

Here’s to sparks flying on both sides of the border!

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