Last week my wife and I worked long hours making a Halloween costume for the contest at my work. Thursday night I wrote a blog post which never got posted because it got deleted some how. Anyway, we were up until 2:00 in the morning on Thursday getting everything finalized on the costume. On Friday morning I was so excited to win the iPod Touch that was being given away for the best costume. This is until I got to work and saw some of the other costumes. I started to doubt I would win. Its amazing how much people will work for a great prize like an iPod Touch.
Today the voting was finalized and the votes were counted. I am sad to say the iPod went to someone else. However, he had a great costume. This guy looks a lot like Johnny Depp and he dressed up as Edward Scissorhands. He looked really good. Infact one person asked who let Edward Scissorhands enter the contest.
Before starting to put the costume together I wondered how much would be too much to spend on a costume and it still be worth it. Granted since we made the costume we now have a nice jacket, shirt, and pants. These can be used again for another contest. It's still disappointing to not win the big prize. Well, their is always next year.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Ding-Dong
This evening, I drove past the old neighborhood where I used to deliver newspapers. This reminded me of an experience I had while going around to collect payments. I stopped by one house which was always late making payments. The lady I was going to collect from would tell me to come back later. It was later, so I was stopping by.
I rang the doorbell and waited for someone to answer the door. No one did, so I rang the doorbell again. Still no answer so I figured that no one was home. Besides, who doesn't answer the door when someone rings the bell? Anyway, since no one was home I decided to just ring the bell a bunch of times. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Over and over. I did this for about a minute or so. Well, low and behold, someone was home and this got their attention. Finally, someone answered the door and said to me, "that is not the way to ring the doorbell. Go back out and ring the bell right." She then closed the door and I rang the doorbell again. She answered the door and asked what I wanted. I told her I was there to collect for the paper and she told me, again, they didn't have any money to pay for the paper.
I rang the doorbell and waited for someone to answer the door. No one did, so I rang the doorbell again. Still no answer so I figured that no one was home. Besides, who doesn't answer the door when someone rings the bell? Anyway, since no one was home I decided to just ring the bell a bunch of times. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Ding-Dong. Over and over. I did this for about a minute or so. Well, low and behold, someone was home and this got their attention. Finally, someone answered the door and said to me, "that is not the way to ring the doorbell. Go back out and ring the bell right." She then closed the door and I rang the doorbell again. She answered the door and asked what I wanted. I told her I was there to collect for the paper and she told me, again, they didn't have any money to pay for the paper.
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