Fall Back

Scott Hardie | September 17, 2017
What is your favorite autumn tradition?

Erik Bates | September 18, 2017
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Chris Lemler | September 18, 2017
Being on vacation from work and playing in a couple disc golf tourneys

Scott Hardie | September 21, 2017
Fall in Florida is pretty much the same as summer, the only difference being that the heat is less intense. (Our "fall" comes around February-April, when there's no rain and the grass turns brown.) So I don't have much fall-specific outdoor activity to look forward to. But I do hope to mount a Halloween party this year and make it an annual tradition. We have a new house that's big enough to fit lots of people after being cramped for years, and I want to use it. (If there's sufficient interest, I might even resurrect an old fall tradition and host GooCon here at our new house, but not until next year at the soonest.)

Pumpkin spice as a seasonal flavor has gotten so big and overdone that it's been a joke for the last few years, but companies keep selling it because it's a safe bet. When do you think this huge pumpkin spice fad will fade away? And if it's before 2020, do you think we'll come to associate pumpkin spice with this decade?

Erik Bates | September 21, 2017
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Scott Hardie | September 21, 2017
Yeah, I like pumpkin pie fine, so I'm inclined to have maybe one pumpkin spice treat in the fall, like a single pumpkin spice milkshake or something. But I don't need pumpkin spice cookies, candy, donuts, crackers, coffee, wine, and on and on. It's all too much. To paraphrase Waylon Jennings, don't you think this pumpkin spice bit's done got out of hand?