Looking at the world the Sunday night before Halloween

Thoughts from a guy who went to a Halloween costume dressed in the cap and gown that he wore for his college graduation. That costume was six years in the making.

… I thought my parents weren't romantic. I never saw them hug or kiss when I lived at home. They spent their nights at home watching Spanish soap operas. The only thing they ever did together was go to Mexico three different times for three weeks starting when I was 15. I was home with my one of my sisters and brother.

So when I called my parents today to see how there were doing, they surprised me. They were going to renew their wedding vows early next year. My parents were married in 1960 and had their first child in August of 1961. So I guess they never had time to their own to do what they wanted until the last child moved out in 1997.

I'm so excited and I can't wait. It's the best thing I've heard in a while.

…A columnist for the Oregonian bloged about a run in he had with the wife of the head football coach at the University of Oregon. She wasn't too happy about him writing a column about their son getting arrested for their second DUI. Her and her nanny began to verbal berate with no words barred. By the way, this took place in front of her other children while the nanny was holding one, in the middle of a press box during the USC-Oregon football game.

She may have figured he'd never write a column about this and the public would never hear about it. But she's not up on her Internet.

…Speaking of college football, "The Play" now has a rival. For those unfamiliar, the play was when Cal defeated its archrival Stanford with five laterals on the final play of the game with the Stanford band on the field.

On Saturday, Trinity defeated Milsap in their Division III game by using 14 laterals to win the game on the last play of the game.

While the Trinity play is exciting and enjoyable to watch – unless you're on the other side – it still does not overtake "The Play" as the greatest play in college football history. For starters, Cal and Stanford are Division I and as mentioned before, it was a rivalry game for the Stanford Axe (the trophy given to the winner). Second, this game ended the college career of John Elway at Stanford, as the Cardinal would have been bowl eligible with a win and it would have been his only bowl game. Third, there is still controversy on whether the play was legal. The Stanford Axe has engravings with results of each year and every time Stanford wins it, they change the 1982 result to a Stanford win and of course Cal sets the record straight when it wins. Fourth, the call of the play-by-play from Cal announcer Joe Starky is priceless.

And finally, Cal player Kevin Moen scored the winning touchdown by running through the Stanford band and jumping on Cardinal trombone player Gary Tyrrell, giving new meaning to the word: tromboner.

…I got another Baltic Ave. That makes five.