Friday October 23
Mother-In-Law's Day?
Or Mole Day?
Mother-In-Law's Day is the world's most dangerous holiday. Whatever you do will come back and bite you on your good intentions.
Because it is also Mole Day, your best bet is to go underground by arranging to be out of town, leaving your cell phone behind where it can be found. Accidentally meeting a married ex-fiance who is also avoiding Mother-In-Law's Day can provide opportunity for a private party.
Wait, Pre has just told me Mole Day isn't about moles!
It seems Mole Day is not about little blind creatures you want to ruin your lawn. It is actually a holiday celebrated by wild and wacked-out chemists who get jiggy exactly at 6:02 am and later exactly at 6:02 pm, because, get this, the date is 6:02 10/23. Get it? What a hoot! Don't get it? Well, the time and date are derived from Avogadro's number, which we all know is (c'mon say it all together) is 6.02× 10 to the 23rd, defining the number of molecules in a mole gram. Uh, we think this does not require comment except that we could not make this up.
Recco: Since we don't much care for Mother in Laws Day, let's geek out with a Mole Day Party for which everyone must be present at 6:02 pm.
Drink: You must provide Nerd-Wackers or that Chemist's fave Formaldeyde which is used for preserving relationships that otherwise would decompose
Grub: Avogadro's Pizza?
Dress: Like a Chemist. Or if you want to be reallly out there, like an Experimental Chemist.
Party Favors: Uh, maybe chemicals? Like better partying thru Chemistry?
Nostalga Moment: recount the first time you ever used the Avogadro number in that experiment in which you tried to try to make CrystalMeth in your bathroom
PartyMix: Should includee Hampton The Hamster's Hamster Dance — assuming your can't find a Mole song.

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All thru October
Oktoberfest
A month of beer beer beer? Ja wohl. And you are already behind the Germans! Yawohl!
The real Oktoberfest in Munich officially started already. It started pouring on the third Saturday in September and will end on Friday night, October 30 at 10.30 pm precisely. But basically you can start Octoberfest now and keep hoisting until Halloween.
Key Worden: Bringen Sie bitte, ein glass bier!  Wollen Sie schlaffen mit mir, liebchen? The first phrase will get you beer. The second will probably get you kicked in the knuts.
Dress-Up: Traditional German garb like leiderhosen, drindle dresses, SS uniforms, whips, and leather cavalry boots, etc.
German Grub: Brats, und Wiener Schnitzel, und German Potato Salad, und pretzels und sauerkraut
Oktoberfest Up Your Music Mix: Sneak in polka numbers until you get death threats, then as many beer drinking songs as you can you can take, and then back to whatever you would have played if you didn't love making everyone nuts with old-time music.