[geeks] Halloween

[Phil Stracchino]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:39:52AM -0500, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 wa2egp at att.net wrote:
> 
> > Last time I had a birthday, my sons decided to put candles on the cake, one
> > for each year.  When it was lit, the smoke detectors in the neighbors
> > houses went off!  (Didn't really happen, but sounded funny.)
> 
> When I turned 25 (6 and a half years ago), we did my birthday at Chi-Chi's.
> The cake design was such that my wife felt she had to put the candles in
> a 2"x2" square where it didn't conflict with the elaborate design on
> the cake.
> 
> Twenty five candles.


We've taken to using the letter/number candles, especially for my
birthday cake.  And we candle the cake in hex.  :)


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