Switched to the Peanuts while I vacuumed and swept my rooms. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and Linus is very excited about the annual non-arrival of his favorite holiday icon. Against her better judgement, Sally joins him in the "sincere" pumpkin patch. Meanwhile, Charlie Brown has trouble trick-or-treating and Snoopy looks ahead to Veteran's Day as he fights the Red Baron.
Started dusting as It's Magic, Charlie Brown began. Snoopy takes a book on magic out of the library and holds a show for all the gang. It's something of a bust until he makes Charlie Brown invisible. Charlie is upset when Snoopy can't bring him back right away...until he realizes that Lucy can't pull the football away if she can't see him coming...
Had lunch while watching Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special. Witch Hazel pursues Bugs, leaves Speedy in charge of her cauldron, and wonders how he managed to turn Daffy into something out of "Duck Amok" in this collection of bits and pieces from various Looney Tunes horror and Halloween shorts. At the very least, they use horror shorts and two actually set at Halloween, unlike the random cartoons on Bugs' Easter special that were totally unrelated to the holiday.
Headed to work after Bugs ended. Though it wasn't quite as busy today as it has been, I still had a hard time keeping up with everything. I'd have to race around to sweep and clean the bathrooms and put cold items away and get the carts done. At least the weather held. It was cloudy, cool, and humid all day, but it never rained (and still hasn't).
I found out why we've been so short on help when I got my schedule. To my dismay, I had two 8 1/2 hour days on Monday and Wednesday, and two 6 hour days on the weekends. Apparently, one of the cashiers got fired, and I know another retired a few months ago. They only have the head bagger to take their places. Neither has been replaced, though supposedly they are in the midst of bringing in more people.
Had a little grocery shopping to do after work ended. Had online coupons for yogurt, Made Good breakfast bars, and Listerine mouthwash. Picked up bagels for lunch and treated myself to a slice of pumpkin cream cake with pudding and cream layers and whipped topping.
Went straight home and into Match Game '77 after that. Perpetually nervous Bill Daily, sweet soap star Trish Stewart, and crusty Mary Wickes joined in for these episodes. Richard wished his younger son Gary happy birthday at the end of one episode. Brett angrily claimed "I love all the people Anita Bryant (anti-gay singer who sold orange juice in the 70's) hates" when she had to give her as an answer to a question in another episode. (And the look on Charles' face when he had to give that answer. He wouldn't even say her name.)
Finished the night after dinner and a shower with Mystery Science Theater 3000. Ring of Terror was a 1961 horror film about a college student (George E. Mather) who is almost literally scared to death when trying to retrieve a ring from a mausoleum as part of a fraternity initiation. There was one surprisingly effective sequence when Mather drove off a snake that attacked him and his girlfriend in their car. Otherwise, the movie was obviously cheap, with way too much padding and sequences showing the students in dull lectures. Not to mention, those "students" were notoriously way too old for their roles, something Joel and the robots frequently made fun of during the movie. Frankly, the episode of the serial "The Phantom Creeps" with Bela Lugosi having too much fun as a mad scientist was far more interesting.
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