Want to know something not so scary? Vampires are a mathematical impossibility. Whew, I can hand out the candy without worrying that one of those little ghouls is for real.

Happy Halloween!

Check out this article from Special Events. It’s all about blogging, and yours truly drops her pearls of non-wisdom throughout, along with meetings industry bloggers Patti Shock, The Party Goddess, and Shackman Associates New York. It’s a fun read, if I do say so myself!

In the only non-spam comment out of dozens I faced this morning was one from Steven Hall, founder of a site that sounds kind of interesting: TravelerVideos. From what he says, it’s a new travel video directory and sharing site, where you can upload your travel vids, or check out other people’s takes on various destinations via photos, movies, and even travel blogs with Web links, ratings, and a section where visitors can leave comments.

While it appears to be geared mainly toward vacationers, I could see this becoming a great resource for meeting planners—if planners use it to share info about destinations as meetings destinations. If you want to get your feet wet on the site, they are trying to entice people to participate with a travel video contest. Click here for details on the contest.

An online group I’m involved with has been having some fun with regional phrases, or just colorful phrases they know and love. I know I’ve had projects that could best be described as being “like nailing Jell-O to the wall” (I have to remember that one!). Others being batted around are:

Like herding cats
That dog/puppy won’t hunt
He could mess up a one-car funeral
He/she doesn’t know come here from sic em!
Her face could curdle milk at ten feet!
It’s higher than a cat’s back
She’s no bigger than a minute
He is wearin’ me slick!
She is slower than honey in January
It’s rainin’ so hard the animals are linin’ up two by two!
He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer

I love this one, too, from a Southerner: You can say anything, as long as you add “bless his/her heart” to it.

My favorite from growing up was my mom’s reply whenever I couldn’t find something right under my nose—”If it was a snake, it would have bitten you”—and my dad’s advice to help me find something I lost: “Look in the last place you put it.”