Archive for October, 2006

For Halloween this year, I have decided to dress up as a business ninja. Morah and I made several stops last night in an attempt to find halfway decent costumes, with little luck. I was beginning to think that I would have to abandon my idea for lack of a decent katana, but I finally found one at a party store (30 minutes before they closed, no less).

I chose business ninja because I wasn’t sure how people at work (mostly my superiors) would react to a costume, so I wanted something that didn’t violate the employee handbook, and that could be easily taken off without leaving me naked (in other words, if I have to lose the ninja aspects of the costume, I’m still dressed for work).

I thought about trying to find a white lab coat and going as Dr. McNinja, but I had that quite late last night.

Did anyone else dress up for Halloween? What costume will you be sporting today?

UPDATE: It occurred to me that, since my outfit is all black, you probably have no idea what makes me a “business” ninja. I’m wearing a black dress shirt, a black tie, black slacks, and black dress shoes (I’m also wearing black dress socks, black sock garters, a black undershirt, and black underwear. No really, I actually am!). So in case you weren’t able to guess, I’m wearing business attire, plus a ninja mask (what’s it actually called?) and a katana (that I wish were real). I looked for some shuriken, but I couldn’t find any. I guess I could find some razor blades or make bo-shuriken out of pencils.

There’s so much for me to blog about! So much, in fact, that I’m still working on outlining it all. Once I’ve finished that, I’ll start writing the posts, which will be long. My current plan is to write three posts about the trip, but I’m not sure that I’ll be able to cram two eventful weeks into three posts; I guess we’ll see.

In the mean time, here are some photos that Lindy took of our wedding and rehearsal, and here are some photos she took of the Hawaii trip.

If you’re reading this, I’m officially married! Tomorrow, it’s off to Maui for a week for our honeymoon.

Back up the short bus for a moment.

On T.V. this morning, I saw an Amish woman making a statement to the media condemning the “secular world”, because lying is taught in public schools.

Wait, what?

So, the Amish eschew our way of life, but when some nut critically injures a few of their kids, suddenly they’re begging for us to stick their kids in ambulances and rush them to the hospital? One of the girls who recently died was on a life support system! Talk about modern technology.

I’m not trying to be insensitive. Those poor girls are dying for no good reason; they deserve every chance to live. But who’s going to pay the hospital bill? It sure as shit won’t be the Amish; they don’t have health insurance.

What really pisses me off that after this happened, while children from their community were dying in a hospital, they had the gall to tell us what assholes we are.

You know, at least one of the Amish guys was wearing sunglasses. Isn’t that against the rules? And what about the woman who made a statement to the press? Shouldn’t she be shunned from the community? If they want me to respect the whole “graven images” thing by not taking pictures of them when I’m in Pennsylvania, they shouldn’t be holding press conferences on national television.

Fucking hypocrite Amish.

Society has reached a new low.

Some nut job walked into an Amish school and killed three people before killing himself.

Who does that?

I saw some video on T.V. and while I did see some Amish folk, I mostly saw Mennonites. Unless it’s =me= who’s uninformed.