Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Whew!

Published November 30, 2008 in Daily Life and Shop 0 Comments

For a long weekend I sure was away from home a lot. Thanksgiving was planed to be spent with a bottle of wine and some pie. However, my friend Devon’s aunt had a lot of people cancel out with little to no notice so I was swept away with Devon and her mom to Case Grande to feast. Yummy! Many thanks to them for having me along.

Friday was shopping day…er…night. Candace stopped over at the house after she returned from Cottonwood and we all went through the ads and researching items. At midnight we went to go sit out in front of Ultimate Electronics as there was a sound system for sale that Candace wanted. I crocheted some hats and we all played on our phone. Hahaha and always wished that they would make sweatshirts for your legs. Yeah, people say silly things when they need sleep. After Ultimate (which once they opened we were out in 10 minutes) we went to JoAnn’s for their opening. After the insanity over flannel last year I skipped the prints and just nabbed the white I needed. Some yarn and frames later were in line and out. We stopped by Target but they wwere out of the XBoxes that Candace wanted and the lines were really long. Since there wasn’t anything we had to have right now we left and went to GameStop so Candace could get the XBox. And then…and then some sleep! Devon crashed on my couch and I got some sleep too. Devon’s birthday is early in the week so some of us went to dinner at Sabuki in Tempe and then went to see Transporter 3. And yes, of course there were plenty of excuses for Jason Statham to lose his shirt. hahahaha

So today was spent watching Dr. Who and getting ready for the shop opening. I finished up some more bags and decorated the hats I have ready. The plan is to make dinner and then get to work prepping the listings. I plan to have them all ready to list at 9pm my time. That will make is December 1st on the East Coast right?

Off to cooking I go! Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all! I for one am very thankful to be here.

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Are you kidding me?!

Published November 25, 2008 in Daily Life 3 Comments

Okay…so it is Picnic Day at work so this may be short. I am just so ticked off right now that I HAVE to vent. One of the things we support is a marketing campaign server. Yeah that’s right…it spews spam. We feel gross just having to support it. Anywho, there is one marketing jerk that..ugh..is just a liar! My co-worker was working with the support for this product all week because this jerk couldn’t get a detail report he wanted. I even started helping out to figure out what was up. Turned out that the detail report would not work because when they sent out the mailing the tag was not formatted right. The server had no way to give him that detail report without the key piece of into in the database column. But I did manage to find that the table had some information in it and if they did a custom report in the web interface they could get some information so it was not a total loss. The jerk replies to thank me for volunteering to do his reports and he has a meeting on Monday and needs them by then and here are a dozen mailings he needs it for. Um what? Excuse me?!

So we get that mess sorted out and then over the weekend my co-worker gets this email from a high up muckety muck that the jerk has told her that the detail report won’t work because that part of the server has been broke for a long time and we won’t fix it. WHAT?! Um no, server is fine, jerk’s formatting was not.

In the course of all this I found that another report that we had been doing for them can be done by them using the web interface. I take the mailings from a ticket they have in to us for that find of report and make and example on the web interface. They can get their data from that and also use it to learn how to adapt it for all future reports they need of that type. I send two emails about it to them all with the details. I closed the ticket just now and the jerk send an email wanting to know why it was closed when he didn’t’ get any email with the data in it. Um high dude, what about the two emails you got about it? UGH!!!

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Modified Shape

Published November 23, 2008 in Shop 3 Comments

I had the awesome Bullfrog Graphics at Etsy cut a new template for me. The new bags are slightly more narrow at the bottom for a more snuggly fit. The top is pretty much the same but with the power of laser cutting it is actually symmetrical which is making it far easier for me. I’m not a machine so I doubt any bag is 100% symmetrical when sewn but I can sure tell on some bags (I think it is my serger driving skills haha). They work just fine but I worry people will be ticked.

Anywho, I will be putting the older bags at a lower price in the new shop and the newer ones at the normal price. I will probably also mention something in the description.

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Grand Re-Opening

Published November 19, 2008 in Shop 1 Comment

Okay, I have set a date for the re-opening of the shop: December 1st. The shop has a new logo, new URL, and will have some new inventory. I think a free shipping promo may be in order for the first week or so.

Now to just get out of work and go sew!!!

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Passing Grade

Published November 17, 2008 in Daily Life 4 Comments

YAY! I received my ITIL exam results this morning. I passed!! I missed one question, woot woot!

On the needles are several project still: Baby Surprise, Moebius wrap, Mystery KAL Blanket, Mystery KAL Bag (the one I started during the Ravelympics), and Bridget’s socks.

I am also working on inventory for the shop. The fabulous Rob at Bullfrog (where I got my stamp) is cutting me a new template for cutting out the back pieces so I’m pretty excited about that. In the mean time I am working on ones I have had cut for ages. Oh, and my new tags arrived so I will start to use those once my current ones are all gone.

Which leads me to a question about packaging. When I first started, the bags were wrapped in tissue paper. Then for a while I had plastic goody bags, and after that zip top bags. I like the zip top bags because it makes it easy to keep them lint free and visible. Plus, I figure the person can re-use the bag. I’ve been making stickers with my new stamp to put on the bags. THen I may punch a hole in the Moo cards and attach that to the zipper tab as the ‘tag’. Does the old tissue paper packaging seem more ‘special’ or are zip top bags just fine?

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