Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Jay: Still Poor
When I popped over to Hannaford last night to get final provisions for today’s cookout and swimming ("go pool!” as Sadie would say), I bought a Mega Millions. Alas, not one number matched. So sad.
It would have been a great Independence gift, and the founding fathers would be so proud in many ways.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Jay: Happy Birthday
To my only grandnephew so far, Elijah, who is 2 today.
Deb: One out of one Jedis agree.
Nine out of ten doctors are complete pinkytoes.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Jay: Online Ordering Can Be Fun
I attempted to order business cards from a prominent online printing place that’s been in the business since the nineties. They have a nifty new card designer I used for laying things out, and a decent price.
Trouble is, you find out that the price is for 500, not the standard 1000, and there is absolutely no way to select another quantity. Well, there is, by telling it quantity 2 for the 500, which doubles the price, where normally business cards change minimally in cost going from a run of 500 to a run of 1000.
Suddenly, that makes them more costly than the place that is okay to relatively high in base price and quite overpriced in shipping. And that happens to take PayPal. And is somewhere I might just have a bit of extra clout should I need it.
What’s really annoying is doing the layout of the card, having it get eaten without creating an order, having to do it again, then figuring out the quantity issue after all that.
Oh well. Back to it…
Update:
It took me until after Hell’s Kitchen, but I got them ordered so in 1 - 2 weeks I’ll have an initial supply. The place I was going to fall back on turned out only to offer one color ink on raised print cards, and having come up with a pleasing layout in maroon and black, I wanted to keep it. I ended up locating the very best online card designer utility imaginable, which works great if you don’t abandon it partway through to cook supper, eat and give baths. Yay! While I wait for them, besides cleaning out the office and other old business, I’ll get the domain hosted, create a site and e-mail accounts, and figure out some of the other details.
Jay: Mmmm… Chicken
In case you don’t check it regularly, I posted about chicken, drumsticks and otherwise, in a “seeks input” sort of way, over at The Married Guy Cook.
Jay: Welcome to Change at the Last Minute
For a year I’ve been doing too much thinking and not enough acting on the new busines, conceived as a possibly viable supplement and now needed as a replacement for the former big client.
The planned name had medical inspiration, which presented some cool possibilities. It also contained the word “geek,” which bothered many people. So did most of my alternate names, most of which wound up as domains that could be used for promotion or whatever down the road. I just couldn’t think of anything not geek that I liked.
More recently, I came up with a tagline for which the domain was shockingly available. The more I thought about it, the more I liked it, and it’s long been in mind as a possible alternate name if the original name didn’t fly in actual practice. It could also have been used for a specific aspect of the business. Finally, I’d decided the phrase would be how we answered the phone, as well as a tagline.
Today is D-Day for ordering business cards, even if they are basic starter ones and change after the first thousand are exhausted. Which could take surprisingly little time, considering that I already know where at least 500 of them will go within the first few days I have them. So I found myself in the shower this morning, thinking about the tagline, being more and more convinced it should be the name.
Still, I worked on designing cards, thinking I could backtrack and changing names would be a good excuse for a second pass at everyone who gets the original cards. You know how you get fixated and it’s hard to contemplate really changing? Yeah.
When I showed Deb the card design, which she liked a lot, I mentioned how strongly I’d thought of making the tagline the actual name up front. I’d been thinking how sad it was my self-imposed card ordering deadline didn’t allow me to run the idea by my usual advisors, but forgot to mention it at least to her. She loved the idea, and like me, liked but never totally loved the original name. For me the liking of it has decreased with time. As I said, it sounds like a good name for a tech blog. For a business, it’s burdened with “geek” overuse and even negative connotations for some. By comparison, the other name is welcoming, with positive, customer service, make you happy connotations.
I’m convinced.
Nothing like last minute changes, eh? I’ll have the time it takes for cards to be printed in which to get the domain hosted, and a site created as needed to be done either way.
So here I go, tangenting off into designing an entirely different card, based on last minute inspiration. Wheeee!
Now what about a new tagline… Perhaps “we’re in ur computrz, fixin ur prollemz” or such? Naw, too lolgeekz.
Jay: Mmmm… Science
Via Rob “Tard” Sama, who actually did quite well, considering the quiz is constructed and scored in a way that will ensure a large proportion fail it.
Deb: Eeeeeeeek!
It just dawned on me that it’s just about time for that pre-baby trip to Wal-Mart. You know, the one for little-tiny-diapers and nursing pads and all of those other things you need with a newborn in the house.
Because in 7 weeks, there’s going to be a baby here again.
Hot damn.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Jay: Golden No More
I know I had things to post about. Really. Why can’t I remember what they were?
I could always post pictures, come to think of it. I could try to remember the latest antics of the kids, like the fact that Sadie refers to the van, truck and Sentra as the van car, truck, and pretty car respectively.
I could turn something I saw elsewhere into a meme, but that would take brainpower and time.
I could write about how I need to do this or that, including telling the manager of the realty trust, who is also the manager of the former big client, that I either have to close the office at the end of the month or shrink it to less than 1/3 of the current size and cost and use it mainly for storage and a physical business address. Which will also include telling her I intend to pay the accumulated rent out of the portion of the proceeds of a specific large invoice the former client one of her other hats applies to is 50% likely never to pay, which ought to go over interestingly. In fact, my big plans for the day are to go to the store, from which I just returned, write that e-mail, and go to the office to continue some work I started yesterday. Much of the former big client’s software was still in my office, some organized and some not so much. I took part of it up to the server room yesterday, have more ready to go, and need to go through more, segregating out what is obsolete. That and the office needs massive cleaning and organizing, with stuff coming home, going to storage, being offered to the partner who doesn’t even know the big client is no more yet, being sold off, and potentially being offered to former partners in cases where it was stuff they owned personally (mainly books) and left with us. Lots of work. I think we may be participating in a well-timed yard sale that could factor in for liquidating some stuff.
Oh well. Back to work, I guess.
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