Halloween festivities

I had a wonderful Halloween yesterday. No I didn't go trick or treating - And no I didn't wear a costume. I did however attend this giant party here at work where I'd seriously say >70% of the people who were there were wearing costumes. Costumes ranging from Dr. Evil to Star ship troopers (is that what you call them?) to Mark Foley to Pirates to Mr. San Francisco (this guy who's 80% naked wearing S&M outfit and showing off his BUTT!). I was suitably amused.

The highlight of my day came from a quote that my colleague had said in the morning:

When I went to breakfast this morning, it occured to me, "Only in SiliconValley would you see a gorilla carrying a laptop."

I guess I find that to be quite true. :)

Near the evening it finally dawned on me for the first time that I really should go trick or treating. I mean, I've been in the states for over 12 years and I haven't once walked around the neighborhood with a basket-full of eggs. Right at the moment as I was about to leave work and head over to Costco to buy a couple dozens of eggs, Andy called and challenged me to play in a game of ping pong over at his house. How could I resist the opportunity to kick his ass, especially since he said "Oh I'm pretty good at ping pong. I'm pretty sure I can beat you." Oh well. Maybe I will go trick or treating next year instead.

Having just sat down comfortably at his house, the door bell began to go off in an increasingly annoying pace - "DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG!" In my head I was thinking "SHUT THE F!@# UP!!!!" Andy frantically ran down to open the door and it turned out to be a few kids stopping by to trick or treat. The first thing that came out of Andy's mouth as the kids said "Trick or treat?" was "What the hell???" Haha. What a punk.

After two hours of fierce competition, Andy and I split the series at 1-1. I think I would have won both of the series had he let me use his juiced up ping pong pedal that he was using against me. But it's ok - I don't really need an edge to kick his sorry butt! :-)