[ljuser]dart-dense-boy[/ljuser] and I were at Faery Fest this weekend! We had lots of fun, even though I managed to get sunburned on Saturday and Lindsay had a less-than-awesome drop in blood sugar on Sunday (such is a con, eh?).
We didn’t sell as much as we were hoping, but now we have 3 shows under our belt and are learning what sort of displays work best for what items.
We met some awesome people in the booth next to us – [ljuser]uniformgrey[/ljuser] (a fun, awesome chick who makes horns paintings and all sorts of nifty things) & Kevin (I don’t know if Kevin has an LJ or not, but he’s a cool guy who kinda looks like Adam Savage and makes his own chainmail). They had a bunch of cool things in their booth, and I bought some horns for my faun costume and a cute little bottle with “+1” etched onto it for Josh (shhh, it’s a secret!). They are awesome, except they accidentally live in Peterborough instead of Guelph. 😛 I will have to post about the stuff I bought at their booth in the VAR blog, but no time to do that this morning, it’s almost time to be off to work!
My hair bleached out in the sun sooo badly, it’s crazy. I started out the weekend with blue/green hair (Fishbowl from Special Effects), and now part of it are nearly white again and I need to re-dye because it looks like I haven’t touched it in months. Blargh.
Anyone notice anything interesting on the Child’s Play Charity website lately? ^_~
This week I will write my final exam for the online Pathology course from UBC that I’ve been taking, and officially end my academic career. Yay!
What is up with so many people I know moving to Ottawa? I just found out my good friends and former housemates just moved there. For a real job, though, so it’s all good.
It’s a busy season for SKS too. This is also a good thing, since it’s keeping Mr. Visa from trying to break my knees. It just means I have no spare time for a while. I’m also doing a craft fair in Toronto on the 16th. Come see me, if you’re interested!
Work is still good. Getting loads done, and getting more responsibility. That is good. Working my way up to where I’m supposed to be in this position. ^_^
The holidays are getting booked solid. We have a lot of family. We’ll probably be in Kincardine the 23/24/25, if anyone else is (though, like us, you’re probably busy with family).
Anyone interested in getting together for New Year’s?
Who’s (still) in the Guelph area this weekend? Wanna come keep me company at GryphCon?
It’s the gaming convention put on by the Univeraity of Guelph Games Club, this weekend March 3-5. It has potential to suck (avg 100-200 people) but this year it’s free for vendors. I can afford free, and I’m poor and need sales. Even a few.
Anyway, my roommates are out of town skiing all weekend, and Josh was just here last week (and I can’t pick him up myself since I’ll need to be at the University and bus fare + taxi to London bus station is kinda expensive >_<), and I've got no one to sit with me. :( I don't expect the booth to be very busy, especially while the various games are actually running but it would be nice to talk to someone this weekend, rather than sitting at a table by myself with nothing to do but study (and really, there's only so much studying I can force myself to do in one weekend when there's not an exam on Monday). Come seeeeee meeeeeee!
Gah. Some people. What the hell is up with everyone being so quick to take offence these days?
It’s kinda a long story, but please bear with me. I belong to a forum for independent women small business owners. It’s a great resource, and we can all share advice and experiences. This forum has a “private” area, that’s only accessable by members, and not, say, Google or random customers. The point of having it is to be able to have discussion about ‘sensitive’ issues, without worrying about customers reading it. Issues that involve things like how much it actually costs to produce some products, discussions of future plans for the business, and the occasional rant someone posts about how an annoying customer has emailed them 47zillion times. Lately there’s been some drama regarding who’s “allowed” to access the provate forums, originally stemming from one person copy/pasting posts from there and sending them to someone outside that forum, who then caused a big stink. Same ol’, same ol’.
So there began a discussion about how to make the private forums more secure Currently all you need to be given access is to provide your business number OR website address to the Admin. Since anyone and their dog can have a website, this was causing a few minor problems. Anyone and their dog can still have access to the public forum.
During the discussion, it was suggested that maybe also having a time/post count limit to join as well, because we’ve had instances of people joining the private forums only to snag all our personal info (which granted, isn’t all that personal: website address, maybe email) and then spammed everyone “advertising” their services. They have a “registered business”, but that’s not what the private forums are for, so someone thought maybe requiring members to have X number of posts, and/or have been a member for X length of time before they can apply to the private forums, to weed out the spammers and whatnot. I was one of the ones who voiced an amount of support for that idea, since I’ve seen it work quite well on other boards. It’s not a perfect system by any means, but it requires that anyone new actuallyinteract with other members, and everyone can get to know them for a little while before they get to jump right in to reading more personal information.
Well.
You’d think anyone who supported that idea had asked for a human sacrifice. People started going on and on about how it’s soooo unfair to new people to exclude them just because you don’t know a thing about them. Or how what we’re really saying is that some of us think we’re better than everyone else because we have more posts (which is obviously the only reason we support such an idea, of course).
OMG, call the whaaaambulance! It’s an emo-gency!
The thing that gets me is that these are all GROWN WOMEN! Business owners! More specifically, grown women business owners who run online businesses. You’d think they’d never been online before, what with being so shocked that anyone might disagree with them.
Gah. Some people.