Halloween

Rich and I are feeling pretty clever after coming up with this idea for his costume:

He's a MAILER-DAEMON. You know, that process that runs in the background on a mail server, delivering all the e-mail that comes through? You may be more familiar with MAILER DAEMON@domain.com as the address that sends back your message when you mistype an e-mail address. In any case, that's what Rich is. You can't see it in the picture, but his messenger bag is full of scorched envelopes. Fun times.
Quite possibly the coolest part of his costume is that the only thing we had to buy was the pitchfork. But we needed one for the compost pile anyway. We were thinking about getting the postal service patches embroidered somewhere, but we never got around to it. So last night, I had the idea that we could get one of Rich's old white undershirts and cut out a few pieces. We taped them to a fairly stiff piece of paper and just printed on them, like they were paper. They turned out really clear, and we just stuck some duct tape to the back to keep them from stretching. We were glad we didn't spend like $5 apiece to have them embroidered. The only downside was that it was a pain to sew the patch to the cap with duct tape backing...