Following our annual Hammock tradition of dressing up for Halloween, we decided to increase the stakes this year and have an official Costume Contest. The field included:

Black cat (Lena), Little Devil (Carrie), G.I. Jane (Emily), Count Chocula (Jamie), Surfer Dude (Patrick B), Orangutan (John), Little Red Riding Hood (Barbara L), Edie Sedgwick (Allison), Nurse Gollum from South Park (Barbara M) and the Crazy Cat Lady (Megan G).

Our special guest judges from Capital Records weighed in and awarded first place to Count Chocula, second place to the Crazy Cat Lady and third place to Nurse Gollum. A special honorable mention was awarded to the Orangutan.

Happy Halloween!

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Being the big Apple nerds that we are here at Hammock, we've been waiting with bated breath for the release of Apple's new operating system, OS X Leopard (that's 10.5 for you Apple n00bs out there). Not wanting to wait until the 6 p.m. retail release, IT Director Patrick Ragsdale cleverly pre-ordered the systems so we would receive them first thing this morning.

Unfortunately, all the excitement that comes with a new Apple operating system was a bit much for Patrick to handle so early in the day, and he was found laying near his desk mumbling something about "Time Machine... Spaces... 300 new features..."

Thankfully his iPhone rang, jarring him back into reality and on to the task of installing the OS onto our office computers so we could start basking in its much-anticipated glory.

We've all been so busy, that Hammock Publishing's official 16th Birthday on October 1 snuck right by us. Time to fire up 16 candles.

At last, we can legally drive the company car. Next year, we can
do magic.

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