Well Halloween is closing in with just one full week of October left.  As for me I am enjoying one of those fall like days with clear skies and a nice breeze blowing in through the office window while working on my post as my little Chihuahua lazily snores in the blanket in the adjacent room doing his best to stay warm.  My freak today is hardly freakish and despite being different from those he was struck with he must have spent some time out in the world doing his best as a member of commerce.  With him being found under sized and underweight I doubt he ever enter a coin operated mechanism like the pin ball games that use to be stationed at the vestibule at the local Kmart, also gone from the landscape.  I do suspect at least for a time he went from change drawer to coin purse to pocket and back again during his working career unnoticed and unloved.  I imagine that when he first was notice it was the lack of having a copper edge that generated the initial excitement.  I know I get excited when I see that silver reeding without a copper edge on coins in my pocket change.  This exciting event is getting to be a pretty rare these days.  My last such find was the change I scooped out of a Coinstar reject bin that had been left behind in a little Northern California town while on vacation.  It was a quarter as well, oops sorry about that the wind through the window blew me off course so back to my little friend here.