Tales of Halloween Ends & Webber International University Football

Since I last wrote, there isn’t too much to write about; I haven’t gone to too many new places or had too many worthwhile experiences unless people want to hear me about getting food from Hardee’s for the first time in a few years so instead I’ll mention a few things on this day that I’ll always have fond memories of-due to childhood and those chilly nights spend trick or treating in the neighborhood. Sigh… yet I know no one wants to hear me act melancholy either so instead, what I saw two weekends ago.

That was when I saw Halloween Ends. Already by that time I heard all the bad buzz and how mad it made most people, although some others did love it. Me, my reaction was more “meh”. Of course this movie would have been better as the middle of a trilogy rather than its conclusion and there still were some dumb moments, it was not a film I loathed. Heck knows there are some actual horrible movies in that franchise.

Two days ago I saw what is likely the only live college football experience this year; as I’ve done in the past it was local lower division football. I went to the campus of Webber International University to see them play against the Virginia University of Lynchburg. I’ve seen Webber before but just recently they opened a small stadium on campus; while it doesn’t have much in the way of seats and those are portable bleachers, at least their games aren’t in random municipal and high school stadiums in the area. VUL, meanwhile, isn’t in any division of the NCAA or NAIA (Webber’s the latter) and instead are something else but their games still count in the standings. VUL hasn’t won any games this season yet all their opponents were much better so the outcome of this was in doubt for me beforehand.

Turns out, it was competitive at first but the Webber Warriors pulled away and ended up defeating the Virginia University of Lynchburg Dragons 38-20; yes, afterwards I heard someone utter the phrase “slaying the dragon”. It was a nice quaint experience in what looked like a nice quaint little town of Babson Park. Admittedly you’d have to drive 5 to 10 miles to do much of anything but I was glad to finally visit the campus. The concessions were either a Kona Ice snow cone truck or a group of people under a tent grilling food & selling Great Value soda.

Last night I went to a Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux for food & drink in what may have been the first time in over a year. I’ll be back sometime in November.