fine whine

Well, five minutes or five dollars. I found out today that the party we'd been invited to attend tonight was in fact a costume party after all, and we had about an hour to create a costume from scratch.

I spent at least a couple minutes thinking about this quandary. What could I do with my fedora, for example? Then I thought of splashing some paint on some old clothes and going as a painter. Then the idea struck me for a truly easy costume: a lawn and leaf bag.

I could merely take the four-foot tall cardboard bag and poke some arm and leg holes in it.

In the end, I kept my jeans and SETI@Home shirt on and donned an aluminum foil beanie and went as paranoid.

It got a laugh or two.