Birthday Present

Today is my actual birthday, and it turns out the ticket won $4.00, not $54. or $304. I read the directions wrong. Boo!
I also heard a good Halloween story at choir practice last night. You have no doubt heard the story about the woman in Costa Mesa who was driving around a mummified body in the car? It turns out that the choir director, Shannon, lives next door to a person who had that individual (the driver, not the mummy) as a neighbor. Actually, the neighbor had taken in a homeless woman who used to be wealthy but was a bit insane and had fallen on hard times. That person was the one who had been driving around with a corpse in her car for 3-6 months. Because she kept all the windows closed, it became mummified, and she covered it up with a coat. The police didn't arrest her because it turned out to be another homeless person had fallen asleep in the car and died, and she was too afraid to tell anyone or dispose of the body. Very sad, but macabre. Suitable for the season.