Just in case you were curious, it turns out:

A government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from this earth. [1]

We recently engaged in some seasonal fall activities.

On the 15th of October Sara's sister, Katie, was in town. We made a heaping pile of macaroni and started a new brewing experiment with the first fermentation of our hard apple cider.

On the 17th we got together with some of Sara's grad school friends to make some caramel apples and spiced hot apple cider at Chris & Lindsey's place. After dark we made a trip out into the county to explore a corn maze.

The 25th was homecoming at Purdue, and somehow I was conned into going out to breakfast club, a Purdue tradition of heading to the bars very early on the morning of a home game. This was the second time I have attended a breakfast club event and I must say that it was vastly preferable to the previous attempt. The key seems to be to get blisteringly drunk as soon as possible.

Our group went as characters from the Batman comics. You can see the photoset here.

On All-Hallows-Eve we spent the early part of the evening at the house where we received 22 trick-or-treaters. This is down significantly from last year. Later in the evening we spent some time at the Black Sparrow with RJ and Tiffany.

You can also view the All-Hallows-Eve 2008 photoset.