tricks and treats (from autosave)

[cthulhia]

I joke about how one of the perks of being a contractor is that I can wear the same halloween costume every year. This time, site du jour begged me to take the day off (without pay, alas) since Someone Else's Department is way behind schedule.

I wore my stock devil horns and tail to do errands instead.

Single moms in the supermarket managed to convince their kids I was wearing cat ears, not horns.

trick:
ME: mr. genius bar dude, please make my laptop stop crashing like a maniac. Could be a heat sink issue.
MGBD: actually, we've since updated the firmware, and that seems to work as well as the heat sink. [fiddle fiddle, reboot, fiddle fiddle, reboot] here, IM your friends for a few minutes and dare it to crash.
ME: (after a few crash free minutes) yay!

treat:
standing there with the usual vaguely dopey, bored look while the car is being inspected is, apparently, greatly improved by devil horns. Everyone at the pumps waved and smiled. One minor stresspoint alleviated. I realize that waiting one whole day would've given me an extra month next year, but, since I got an entire year free, I figure I shouldn't thumb my nose too much at fate.

Then off to wear my "costume" to the rest of the evening. (The post I was about to write when I got this here handy autosave)