Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Friday, April 01, 2005
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.
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Wow, Technicow *is* a lousy website, and it’s got spelling mistakes, too. No money for them.
My favourite part of this particular blog entry was when my tired eyes blended together the title and the first two lines, so in my head I thought you’d written something about how this was the start of the rest of your life because of a huge poop which had left you sore. Yes, I really thought that’s what you wrote. I’m confusing you with Derek or something.
Mudpuppy on 04/01 at 08:29 PM -
I’m not yet ready to share my pooping with the Internet, but I can see how you saw that. I’ll try not to do it again.
on 04/02 at 07:52 PM -
Hello,
I read your site quite often and came in today to see what is new when I saw my name, Technicow. I feel horrible that I ignored you, I try to meet everyone. I feel MUCH MUCH worse that you thought I was a man. I even wore a black dress on Friday
I know I looked rough because I had just finished a huge window contract the night before and had 1 hour of sleep before setup. I am hoping that this situation occurred when one of my student’s showed up with her wife and I asked them to watch my booth. I was filled with umm water and had to take a break. One of the wives wears a baseball cap constantly, but she has long hair. The other wife has longish blond hair. If it was one of them, they were overwhelmed as neither has ever worked a booth. I apologize if that was the case. They are both awesome individuals. If this happened on Sunday,however, that is a totally different story. I did have a fellow behind my booth as I was running to the corridor, and he camped my booth for 3*&#*#%@ HOURS!! Holy cow. He thinks he is charming, amusing, and adorable. Oops, sorry, ranting. Bottom line, he makes me nuts. I tried to drink less liquid that day, to no avail. I had to leave the booth. Great, you do not want to be reading all this, anyway my friend, I wanted to apologize for the rude service you received from me. I honestly did not mean to do so. I felt guilty as I would walk out and stop people walking by my booth, you have to admit tho, my booth looked cool, kind of like a disorganized garage sale I had no idea what to expect as that was my first show. I figure, it was romantic, I was in a dark place, tiny booth, extremely far away from any restroom or food, BUT right next to the exit door. On a happy note, I tried to sell the fellow in my booth on Sunday to a really nice guy, he thanked me, said no and bought a saw instead. I tried throwing the fellow in as a bonus and my client explained he would only come into the store if my little buddy was not here. That works out well as my little buddy never comes in. He does like to call me at home, however. Ack, sorry, now I am rambling and you do not know me from Jack Adam. One more thing my dear, do you have any suggestions for my website? Yours is lovely. I had someone else do my site as I set up one a few years ago and it took me months to get it attractive. I have not had time to even eat let alone check my site. I will look at the misspellings and have the designer fix those. I like your lavendar color, I will not steal it tho, that is just wrong. If you can bring yourself to do so, I would love for you to stop into the store. That way, you can make sure that it truly was me who offended you, and, I can meet the person with the awesome personality who writes the rants. Again, I apologize for the treatment, Robin
on 04/05 at 10:25 AM -
You are a truly nasty beast, Ms Blogger. Thank you for apologizing to the nice lady. Her website could use some touching up, though.
I have two, count ‘em TWO, stained glass windows that we use as wall art.
I come down firmly on the side of Starbucks in this matter.
TresGay
on 04/05 at 03:01 PM
