Saturday, April 02, 2005

early evening

I Did Nothing Today

It was a totally wasted day.  We went grocery shopping and somehow spent a small fortune, dodged Boy Scouts selling stuff at the entrance of the store (I hate people standing outside grocery stores wanting to sell stuff), dodged a stupid man backing out of his parking space while dialing on his cell phone and took pills for the sciatica that has currently taken over my life.  Too much convention ambling, I guess.  My hands and arms are killing me too - I wonder if I can blame the conventions for that too.  Whatever, I have absolutely nothing of interest to say.

Friday, April 01, 2005

early evening

Murder-Suicide At Rainbow & Cheyenne

Murder/Suicide at Las Vegas intersection - yup, those het couples really know how to live it up.  “A man shot and killed his wife in the middle of a busy Las Vegas intersection Wednesday evening, then turned the gun on himself, police and witnesses said.  Las Vegas homicide detectives were investigating the murder-suicide, which shut down most of the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Cheyenne Avenue about 6:20 p.m.  Detectives said that it appeared the victim was the estranged wife of the killer and that the couple had a history of domestic violence. ”

Yeah, I can see why people would worry about them homosexuals marrying.  They might want to create a happy and loving family.  That would suck, huh?

No, I’m not bitter.  Okay, maybe just a little.

early evening

Yes, Today Was The Start Of The Rest Of My Life

Updated 4/5/05 - Oops, a case of mistaken identity.  The person at the Technicow booth was NOT the owner of Technicow.  I don’t know who it was, but I take back the rude things I said about “Mr. Technicow” because there, uh, isn’t a Mr. Technicow, but a Ms. Technicow.  I don’t take back what I said about the website though, but we’ll work with her and help her fix it.  And now, yay, there’s a cool glass place we can go to that’s actually near where we live...and NOTHING is near where we live, except Starbucks.  But, a girl can’t live on Starbucks alone, although we’ve tried.  So, my apologies to Robin for insulting her and her business.  I appreciate that she didn’t ream me, but wrote in such a way that Leigh-Ann and I will be happy to visit Technicow soon.

And man, am I pooped and sore.  Yesterday we went to the International Sign Expo at Mandalay Bay (see Leigh-Ann’s camera phone pic) and it was HUGE.  They really meant it when they called it “international” - at the very least, it was American, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.  There wasn’t much there for us, except maybe three or four booths.  Although, finally I found a place that can make a wrap for my car - APE Wraps.  I asked for a price quote because I have no clue what a wrap for my Aztek would cost.  Except for the funky (some may say, “hideous") design of the car, I find the white color really boring.  I bought it used, so there wasn’t much I could do about it.  During the presidential campaign, I wrote to the Kerry/Edwards people to see if they wanted to put a wrap on my car because, hey, I live in a red state and I have an unusual looking car.  Alas, they didn’t write back.  That might explain partially why we lost - no particular vision.

Today we went to the Glass Craft & Bead Expo, which was interesting.  Lots of pretty glass and beads.  Mostly, we went out of curiousity because, well, when you live in Vegas, you have lots of conventions you can go to, even if you’re not in that particular business.  As luck would have it, we found the exact thing we needed - dvds from Etchmaster.com which will help us get started with our sandblasting cabinet.  They didn’t have the dvds on their website and we didn’t want videos.  So, not only did we get the dvd set, we also got a really good price on them.  Plus, the people at the booth were super nice, which gave us a good feeling about possibly taking classes in Santa Fe, NM.  And really, who doesn’t want to go to Sante Fe anyway?  Almost all of the people we met at the booths were really nice, except ironically for the one person whose business is in Vegas and actually near our house.  Mr. Technicow, you lost a customer by basically acting like we didn’t exist.  Sure, it would be easy to drive down to your store at Rancho and Craig to pick up stuff, but we won’t.  Also, your website sucks.  So there.  Remember, every person you meet at a show could be a potential customer.  The woman from Diamond Tech was so nice that even though they don’t sell their parts themselves, we’ll remember the good experience we had meeting them at the show.  You, Mr. Technicow looked right through us.  Whatever.  Your loss.  Ha, we’ve spent 10k on supplies in the past month, clearly none of that supply money will be going to you in the future.

I haven’t gotten any pictures from my dad of the house yet, but the realtor will be taking pictures soon, so I’ll have those.  I’ve also asked for a picture of Mr. Smooth, which I should have within the next day or so, if I hassle my dad enough.  You’re going to think it’s the cheesiest crappiest garage sale light ever, but I LOVE Mr. Smooth.

I’m really tired or I would write more.  But, at the very least, I started April off on a good note, writing a decent length blog entry.  That’s pretty good considering my hands feel like they’re going to fall off.  Advil, here I come.