A Free Moment

Because of a computer glitch or someone dropping the ball or some act of God, the workplan on the site I was writing for today did not appear in the system until today. Normally, I would have had to have stayed until I finished up the site as it would have been due today, but because of this snafu, my draft now is not due until Friday, which gives me about 15 minutes of play time before I have to go to a meeting and then head home. I suppose I could be productive and work on my site, but I have done the preliminary work on it and it can wait.

I (along with a few of my other cohorts here at the office) were invited to go to an actor friend's Halloween farce in Minneapolis tonight. So co-worker Grant and former co-worker Anne Marie and I will go see our pal Joe. There is a prize for the best costume, so we're all trying to think up something to wear on the fly. Anne Marie has not given us any idea of what she might be. Grant might go as a trucker. I have opted to wear a costume I'd worn to the last Halloween party I went to (oddly enough, my old roomie Natalie and I hosted said party). Is it kosher, I wonder, in the Halloween fashion world to repeat the same costume on two occasions? Even if there's been a span of four or five years since the last occasion? Well, I'm doing it any way.

I'll be going as a mad butcher: t-shirt with cigs rolled up in the sleeve, arm tattoo, heightened stubble, chewed cigar or cigarette in mouth, meat cleaver (plastic - I'm not an idiot), black eyes with purplish/yellowish bruising, my retro specs, and an apron and chef's hat with a fair amount of blood spattered about.



Should be fun!