BOO!
We had our annual Halloween party a little early this year… since the 31st is a Tuesday, we decided to have our party on Saturday, April 22nd instead.
Sorry it took so long to get some pics up!
Notice I’m a ninja? You can barely see me wailing on my sweet electric guitar and then popping a huge boner.
Also, to make my disguise complete, I hid my shoes under some chairs in the corner of the party!
BIG MISTAKE
You see, as the company grows, these parties grow! With all the friends of friends of friends we probably had about 200 people this year. I believe 90% of them were with Javier.
And, as the people attending get further and further from actually knowing anybody throwing the party, the crime rate rises and rises!
You see, when it was time to leave, my shoes were gone!
It would have been no biggie, since those shoes were on their way out anyway.. but my car keys and cell phone were inside!
We looked all around and couldn’t find it.. could somebody really have stolen my shoes?! There it was, 3am 2am, and I was stuck standing in my black socks.
I ninjad my way back to the hotel (my condo was getting fumigated for termites.. how’s that for some rocking timing), broke into my room (my wallet was locked in my car), and dreamt sweet ninja dreams.
Long story short!
The next day, I came back with my spare keys (but no alarm fob!), set off my car alarm six times trying to get it to start, went to the T-mobile store to get a new phone, but decided to give my old phone one more, final call .. when somebody picked up!
Hello
Hi. Um, I think you have my phone?
Uh, yeah, I think so.
Uh, yeah.. who is this?
It’s Brad. (New tech support guy from Indiana!)
AH HA! YOU ARE SO FIRED!
Waaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!
Okay fine, please stop crying. How about just a 20% pay cut?
Sniff. Sniff. Okay. I’m sorry. My girlfriend was really drunk last night and we were sitting on those chairs in the corner and I took her home and picked up all her stuff and I thought those were HER shoes.
You thought those size 14 velcro converse were your girlfriend’s?I was pretty drunk too.
And THAT is why ninjas don’t wear shoes.
October 31st, 2006 at 10:10 pm
Haha. Sounds like I need to ninja my way into your parties!
Bill
November 1st, 2006 at 3:52 am
“We had our annual Halloween party a little early this year& since the 31st is a Tuesday, we decided to have our party on Saturday, April 22nd instead.”
April??!
November 1st, 2006 at 4:42 am
I’m going to take a wild guess and say that the party was on Saturday, October 28th, rather then April 22nd.
It’s nice how you guys collaborate and gather all the pictures together.
Saw a Guy Fawkes mask in one of those. =)
November 1st, 2006 at 6:58 am
Is boner the name of one of the servers at DH?
November 1st, 2006 at 8:58 am
hmmm, Krackel, Dream, Charm…
I think Boner DOES fit!!!
Bill
November 1st, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Yeah, I never thought I’d see the phrase “popping a huge boner” in a company blog.
Class redefined ;)
November 1st, 2006 at 5:09 pm
If that’s the devil I want to go to hell!!
November 1st, 2006 at 10:25 pm
heh..heh…he said,”Boner”..heh…heh…
November 2nd, 2006 at 2:31 am
Heh, I always like your DreamHost Blog Stories, and the way you sign your support messages like “The Ever Happy DreamHost Billing Team” and so on;-)
Its’ one of the reasons I have chosen Dreamhost for hosting my websites… Now testing if all’s as good as your humor is:D
–Michel
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:18 am
And apparently Dreamhost hires only the hottest technical talent available! Yowza on all counts!
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:22 am
Looks like it was a great party… Good looking bunch there at dreamhost
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:52 am
Great pictures, lots of fun
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Damn, we should have signed up weeks ago and come to this party! Maybe played live music for ya ;)
November 3rd, 2006 at 5:17 pm
We handled music in “house”! =)
November 6th, 2006 at 12:52 am
第一次接触博客 也是第一次阅读你的故事 第一次浏览你的照片 发现很好 很有意思 以后我会常来看的
November 7th, 2006 at 2:36 am
So were her eyes red with contacts or something or did the camera actually have its timing right? :)
November 12th, 2006 at 4:44 am
Looks like a great party! :-)
November 12th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
It’s true, no real ninja ever wears shoes. IT IS LAW.
Other forms of footware (e.g. sandals) are generally acceptable, however.
December 14th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Who is that cute girl on the last pic? Send me her email address! :)
March 28th, 2007 at 4:00 pm
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