Halloween costume party turned into birthday party

One of my clients invited me to a superhero themed Halloween costume party. Recently I got a phone call that too many people are coming and several cannot attend anymore including myself due to parking and space problems for that apartment building.

Today I was told about a superhero themed birthday near my home that I could possibly attend. Hopefully that will actually happen. The person who said I could come mentioned that it would be funny if I show up in a female costume. Based on what is left of all the people renting from me, I might end up having to do that.

Metrorail annoyances

The last couple of days have not been a great experiences for Metrorail customers in the Cape Town area.

There have been several cancellation announcement in the morning while people need to get to work as well as announcements of delays. Often the delays are caused due to signal power failure. After all of these years of that, I would expect engineering to come up with a way to make these more robust that a slight drizzle doesn't kill the entire system.

Yesterday morning was another great example where trains were just standing on the tracks two sides of a station. I know that they were not waiting for a line change due to construction work going on. Yesterday evening was a case of an announcement of a delay of 8 minutes and about 13 minutes later when the next train was scheduled to show up, there was an announcement of a delay of 12 minutes. This morning was at least nothing happening for 20 minutes.

Work getting busy

Both of my jobs are getting busier this time of the day. What doesn't help is that clients are sometimes asking some really stupid questions and then repeat them three times in a row. Sometimes I feel like I have to do all of the thinking for them.

BKE Costume Rental blog created

I have finally created a blog for my costume renting company called BKE Costume Rental (both the blog and the company have the same name). This was long overdue to split that into its own section.

Costume modelling

Lately I ended up modelling several male and female costumes for my website to be able to show what to expect. For some of them I really need some smaller person to model them because I barely fit in.

New mask promotion on costume renting website

Finally I have started promoting foam latex masks on my costume renting website. When somebody searches for something and gets no results, then the following image with some text appears:

The photo took a few minutes to make which included putting on the mask and holding up another while setting up the tripod.
The main purpose of this is to see how many people are actually interested.

Seven new realistic foam latex masks ordered

Last night I finally ordered seven mostly realistic looking foam latex masks from Greyland Film in Europe. One of them is a replacement for another one that got torn, the other six are new faces to use for costumes or just simply for some parties. I am very much looking forward to trying them all on.

Barney themed children's birthday

There are several here that are having a Barney themed birthday for their 1, 2 and 3 year old children and are desperate to get a Barney costume for the event so that Barney can make an appearance. There are some remotely similar looking suits available, but they are rare and difficult to get. Somebody asked me to wear one of those at the end of October. It will be really hot in that suit around that time of the year here in the southern hemisphere.

My late father's 60th birthday

Yesterday (5 October 2009) was supposed to be my father's 60th birthday. He died in 2008 after three years of chronic kidney failure. His ex-fiancé and myself went to one of the restaurants that he enjoyed going to just for remembering him with things that he loved to do. It would have been great if he was along.