Happy Halloween! What are your plans for tonight? Alexis has rehearsal for her play at school. Karissa and Alex are watching “Five Nights at Freddies” on Peacock. I’m not sure what Chris is doing tonight. I’m going to just enjoy my night at home.
I cleaned today. I spent most of my day doing that. A new dresser Tommy has is still under warranty so someone came out to fix that. They have to order a part, so they will be back again.
No word on my car. I feel like its been forgotten. I doubt this will happen but I fear that my car will have to be totaled out. They aren’t making Beetles right now and I really like my Beetle. So I’m hoping they don’t find anymore damage to the car and they are just taking their sweet time. My insurance is probably wondering what is taking so long.
Final Fantasy 14 has a new crossover with the game FallGuys. I’ve never heard of this game, though Karissa has and I’m sure the other kids have too. I know I’m going to suck at this event but it will be fun. Next year there will be a crossover event with Final Fantasy 16, so that is something to look forward to. Tommy hasn’t finished 16 yet, and I have to keep remembering where we left off. He’s been playing Cyberpunk lately. Oh, that would be a crazy crosover if they ever do that!
I want to work on weights tonight. I’ve been picking up 15lb weights. That’s pretty good for me. I have a hard time with 20lb weights but I will get there.
I want to make pumpkin bread. Soon, I will make pumpkin bread.
I’m staring at the screen while listeing to music, tyring to figure out what to write about. Tomorrow is November. Bring on Thanksgiving! I worry about all the treats coming up and trying to keep my weight down. I’m going to have to work out a lot to keep up with my weight.
Ok, some Halloween facts that I’ve read about in the past.
. Women who knew about health practices and nature were considered witches. One of the things they did were sweep the dust and grime out of their homes to avoid sickness…which is where the association of “witches” and brooms came from. Another thing they did was keep cats in their homes to chase away rats and mice, which carried plenty of germs and viruses at the time.
. Trick or treating has existed since the Middle Ages and was known as ‘souling’, but the roots of Halloween itself go back almost 1,000 years before that time to the ancient Celtic Festival of Samhain, which was the eve of the Celtic New Year. The ancient Irish believed that the dead returned to earth that night, so the people would light large bonfires and put on costumes to frighten away the ghosts.
. Spiders are more active when the seasons change and the dip in temperature from fall to winter (happening around Halloween) means that they will be spinning webs and entering homes to find food and shelter from the cold. That’s one of the reasons why spiders and spider webs are associated with Halloween.
. The term “trick r treat”: Kids would vandalize houses and stores on Halloween. One women bribed the kids with sweets (cakes and what not) so that they wouldn’t target her house. It worked so well that they published the idea in magazines and dubbed it trick or treaters. This is also how the candy company got involved. They saw a huge opportunity and jumped on it! Hence why we now have all these candy options on Halloween.
. The original jack o lanterns were carved from turnips.
. In Germany, it’s tradition for people to hide their knives on Halloween night. The goal is to prevent returning spirits from getting injured.
. The most popular Halloween candy is Reese’s cups.
. Are you afraid of Halloween? Then you might suffer from Samhainophobia – the fear of Halloween.
. The word “witch” comes from the Old English wicce, meaning “wise woman.”
. Americans used to celebrate the holiday by sending Halloween cards. In the early 1900s, before the telephone was invented, Halloween cards were about as popular as Christmas cards.
. Scarecrows symbolize the ancient agricultural roots of the holiday. Greek farmers created the first scarecrows that look like people to protect their crops. Crows being the primary culprit is how the name originated.
. Pumpkins are classified as a fruit, not as a vegetable. Basically, anything that originates from the likes of a flower is technically a fruit.
. According to the History Channel, the name jack-o’-lantern is rooted in an Irish folktale about a man named Stingy Jack who fooled the devil and in turn was forced to walk the Earth with only a burning coal in a hollowed turnip to light his way. The Irish began to call him “Jack of the Lantern,” and then just “Jack o’Lantern.”
. Trick-or-treating was inspired by the medieval English tradition of “souling,” which involved children going door-to-door on All Souls Day, offering prayers for residents’ deceased loved ones in exchange for food. Trick-or-treating was also inspired by a tradition called “mumming.” In the middle ages, people began practicing a tradition known as mumming, in which they dressed up as ghosts and demons, and went door-to-door performing songs and scenes from plays in exchange for food and drink. This custom is believed to be an antecedent of trick-or-treating, according to the History Channel.
. Despite colonial New Englanders’ awareness of Halloween, History.com explains that celebrations were very limited due to their strict Protestant beliefs. It wasn’t until the second half of the 19th century, when a wave of Irish and other European immigrants arrived, that the holiday became widespread across America.
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Given a positive integer num, return the sum of all odd Fibonacci numbers that are less than or equal to num.
The first two numbers in the Fibonacci sequence are 0 and 1. Every additional number in the sequence is the sum of the two previous numbers. The first seven numbers of the Fibonacci sequence are 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 and 8.
For example, sumFibs(10) should return 10 because all odd Fibonacci numbers less than or equal to 10 are 1, 1, 3, and 5.
function sumFibs(num) {
let prevNumber = 0;
let currNumber = 1;
let result = 0;
while (currNumber <= num) {
if (currNumber % 2 !== 0) {
result += currNumber;
}
currNumber += prevNumber;
prevNumber = currNumber - prevNumber;
}
return result;
}
// test here
sumFibs(4);
