Why Ninjas Don’t Wear Shoes
October 31, 2006 on 5:11 pm | In Funnyish, Insider View by Josh Jones |
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.
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Haha. Sounds like I need to ninja my way into your parties!
Bill
Comment by bill perry — October 31, 2006 #
“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??!
Comment by jason — November 1, 2006 #
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. =)
Comment by Beau — November 1, 2006 #
Is boner the name of one of the servers at DH?
Comment by Sheldon Kotyk — November 1, 2006 #
hmmm, Krackel, Dream, Charm…
I think Boner DOES fit!!!
Bill
Comment by bill perry — November 1, 2006 #
Yeah, I never thought I’d see the phrase “popping a huge boner” in a company blog.
Class redefined ;)
Comment by Nate Cavanaugh — November 1, 2006 #
If that’s the devil I want to go to hell!!
Comment by Steve Fleischer — November 1, 2006 #
heh..heh…he said,”Boner”..heh…heh…
Comment by rlparker — November 1, 2006 #
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
Comment by Michel Bozgounov — November 2, 2006 #
And apparently Dreamhost hires only the hottest technical talent available! Yowza on all counts!
Comment by phoenix — November 3, 2006 #
Looks like it was a great party… Good looking bunch there at dreamhost
Comment by Adina — November 3, 2006 #
Great pictures, lots of fun
Comment by Greg — November 3, 2006 #
Damn, we should have signed up weeks ago and come to this party! Maybe played live music for ya ;)
Comment by Story Told — November 3, 2006 #
We handled music in “house”! =)
Comment by Brian — November 3, 2006 #
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
Comment by 雪松 — November 6, 2006 #
So were her eyes red with contacts or something or did the camera actually have its timing right? :)
Comment by Kevin Hatfield — November 7, 2006 #
Looks like a great party! :-)
Comment by Jimmy — November 12, 2006 #
It’s true, no real ninja ever wears shoes. IT IS LAW.
Other forms of footware (e.g. sandals) are generally acceptable, however.
Comment by Ninjas Don't Wear Shoes — November 12, 2006 #
Who is that cute girl on the last pic? Send me her email address! :)
Comment by Alex — December 14, 2006 #
[...] of transparency. Yeah, sometimes Josh’s frankness still gives me the heebie-jeebies (”ninja with a boner“, Josh?), but I know what the alternative is and given a choice I can’t help but feel [...]
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