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So this weekend I started on my next creative creation. As I mentioned in my last update, This week is our cellebration of Customer Service week and each day are different features and contests. For example, today is Bagels provided for lunch and wear your favorite team jersey day. Tomorrow is crazy hat day. Wednesday is crazy shirt day, and while I don’t know what I’m doing for any of those, I do know that thursday for dress like your favorite video game character, I’ll be dressing up like Pac man.

Here’s how I’m making it:

I started by making a 40 inch round Pac-men (Pac-mans?) out of 4 pieces of foam-board. I made 7 triangular cross-braces (20 inches long) and attached them to the Pac-man halves using tape and glue. I made a few larger cross supports to hold the costume as well as support straps that will go over my shoulders to hold the costume in place.

Instead of my head poking out of the top of the costume, I made a window and used black material that is somewhat thin, so from the outside, it will appear like the black interior of Pac-Man’s mouth but I will be able to see out it, much in the manner that Window Tint works in a car.

Tonight, I’ll finish the “shell” by wrapping oaktag around the frame, enclosing the whole monstrosity. Then it’s outside to spraypaint the entire costume yellow. I’m hoping to get home as early as possible so I can spray it by 10 or 11 PM. This will give me around 3 hours for it to dry outside at which point I can bring it in to finish drying and finally attach the final details.

I have created Eyeballs, and am considering putting styrofoam balls on a hanger wire and extending it foward from the mouth. We’ll see if I wind up doing that.

I may need to cut arm-holes but I want to wait and see how the “suit” fits prior to cutting any additional holes. After all, Any time I make a cut, I lose stability in the costume.

It should be interesting. My next problem is going to be getting the costume to work. I think it’s bigger than my car door. Oops. 🙂 Anyone with a truck want to give me a ride to work?

It’s that time of year again. Time for Haloween costumes. Now, I actually have two occaisions I need to dress up for. One is Halloween and the other is work’s Customer Service week. I am not prepared for either.

I have some great ideas, mainly I thought of making a Voltron costume. Think of it. “Lion” shoes and arm pieces… I could make it out Foam Board, the same stuff I made the Motorolla Modem last year. Freakin’ thing won me $100 and a reputation as “The modem guy” at work. lol.

During Customer service week (a whole week where each day they have some wacky cellebration) the year before, I won an MP3 player by dressing up as an asshole during Science Fiction day. See, there was an “80’s” day, a sports day, a science fiction day, pajama day and some other (on my day off). The best costumes won prizes.

I’m actually pretty good at winning these things. It’s my creativity and willingness to do something completely obscure and stand out (like dressing up as a 5 ft. tall/working lights/cablemodem)

Those of my friends who have friends or family in Europe will recognize that I have been trying to get my hands on Crumpets for quite some time. Only recently, have I searched the Internet shopping mall known as Amazon.com and finally found these english muffin-like treats. I placed the order less than a week ago, and they arrived at my doorstop.

Let me start with the packaging. Definitely exciting as they say right on the package that they are incredible. “Incredible Crumpets”. I am dissapointed however, as they were Made in America, but I guess I can overlook small details. They are, after all, european style Crumpets, from a company that sells all european groceries.

I invite all of you (yes you too) to join me one of these days, for a relaxing afternoon or evening of Tea and Crumpets.

I wish I had a camera right now. I’m sitting at my desk under a palm tree sipping a pina colada from a pineapple with 2 beach balls and a shitload of candy.

Today is our companies annual BBQ. They bring out food (burgers, dogs, chicken, sausage, etc), games (contests, dunk tank, basketball, etc), and give staff additional time to enjoy the festivities. As always, I made it a point to sign up for everything (somehow, they didnt schedule me for the water-baloon toss, but I took part in the limbo and pie eating contests.

I didn’t have much of a chance in the Limbo. It was me and 2 other big guys up against a gymnist. She was tiny and could practically walk under the pole while we were straining to get under the damn thing. She could even get under it at it’s lowest placement. I guess I could say I tied for second place, but I don’t know thats much of an accomplishment.

I had my chance to shine in the pie-eating contest. I won it last year, so I had a reputation to uphold. We were given a small 5 inch pie with whipped cream topping piled on. Mine was a cherry pie! Upon being told to begin, I plowed right past the whipped cream into the pie itself and sucked down that pie like.. well, no need to get vulgar in here… Needless to say, I prevailed once again and maintained my title as pie-eating champion.

So here I sit, with a pineapple water bottle filled with pina-colada (non-alcoholic unfortunately), a few beach balls, a pile of candy pouring out of a canvas bag, a yo-yo, and an inflatable palm tree which I stole from the hallway.