The children were either terrified by my very presence or thought I was Spy vs. Spy (modern goth edition I guess). One really young boy said “you’re a penguin!” Some yard snaps:

I’m about as sleepy as can be.

I haven’t decided what university he’ll have gone to so the hoodie is temporary. (Waterloo’s not a respectable plague doctor university anyway.)

We were kind of busy (and lazy) this year so we didn’t really get up to a lot of the ideas we had. But I got to play with my jigsaw and made this witch and cat:

The resulting shadow was pretty good, though the cat didn’t show up very well:

My costume turned out nicely. This flash photo doesn’t really do it justice:

I’m really not much for scaring kids so what I would do instead of jumping at them or anything was stand completely still. The kids would see me and know something wasn’t quite right and they’d stare and stare. And I’d stare back at them and they’d just be completely unnerved, thinking something was going to happen I guess. And it seems I’m okay with doing that to children as I feel no remorse.

Everything went over real good. The black light where we gave out the candy was a big hit. We wound up dragging a big mirror out so that kids could see themselves glowing and they really dug that. You can see more pictures here if you’re interested.