It's Friday. Big Whoop.

Second visit to the dentist yesterday, which resulted in the permanent crown being installed and even more impressions of my mouth being taken. Supposedly, the temporary partial will be in next week, and my career as Vampire Meth Addict will be over, at least until I take it out at night. When I told my boss I would have another appointment when it came in, he told me not to do it next Friday, because he would be moving his daughter to KU for the new semester. So I could be without choppers an extra weekend because of his problems. Lovely. And now, some of the 10,515 songs in the box.

1) Chump Change, The New Pornographers

2) And Your Bird Can Sing, The Beatles (Revolver Mono)

3) Serial Killer Status, Algernon Cadwallader

4) The Shawl, Metawon

5) Caravan girl, Goldfrapp

6) Just a Boy, Angus & Julia Stone

7) Anna, Ellery

8) Hear My Train A Comin' [Acoustic], Jimi Hendrix

9) Down By The Water, PJ Harvey

10) After The Gold Rush, Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Aichken Taiikukan, Nagoya, Japan 3/3/76)

and the rest:

11) Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense: Special New Edition)

12) The Crab Louse, Lords Of Acid

13) The Mayor, Rasputina


And off we go to Ha//ma/k hell. And an ugly-hot weekend. Maybe I'll post about last Saturday's adventures later on. Or not.

It's Friday. Big Whoop.

Second visit to the dentist yesterday, which resulted in the permanent crown being installed and even more impressions of my mouth being taken. Supposedly, the temporary partial will be in next week, and my career as Vampire Meth Addict will be over, at least until I take it out at night. When I told my boss I would have another appointment when it came in, he told me not to do it next Friday, because he would be moving his daughter to KU for the new semester. So I could be without choppers an extra weekend because of his problems. Lovely. And now, some of the 10,515 songs in the box.

1) Chump Change, The New Pornographers

2) And Your Bird Can Sing, The Beatles (Revolver Mono)

3) Serial Killer Status, Algernon Cadwallader

4) The Shawl, Metawon

5) Caravan girl, Goldfrapp

6) Just a Boy, Angus & Julia Stone

7) Anna, Ellery

8) Hear My Train A Comin' [Acoustic], Jimi Hendrix

9) Down By The Water, PJ Harvey

10) After The Gold Rush, Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Aichken Taiikukan, Nagoya, Japan 3/3/76)

and the rest:

11) Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense: Special New Edition)

12) The Crab Louse, Lords Of Acid

13) The Mayor, Rasputina


And off we go to Ha//ma/k hell. And an ugly-hot weekend. Maybe I'll post about last Saturday's adventures later on. Or not.

One for the Anglophiles

I work for a company that produces large-format graphics: posters, banners, floor graphics, vehicle graphics, that kind of thing. Being as we are in Kansas City, we get a certain amount of work from a large greeting card company whose name rhymes with Ballpark. They spread the stuff around, in part to keep from being stuck with a single supplier, as well as to give local companies a piece of the "very best" pie.

Most of what we do are short run items for promotional displays to be shown to store owners at their trade shows. We make a couple of dozen of things, they are shown, stores decide to order them, and the actual product is produced in China. We are very small (5 people, including the owner), and couldn't produce the quantity of product they require. We got lucky (for miscellanous values thereof [thank you, elaine_brennan, for that lovely phrase]) in 2006 when CVS bought Osco and got tabbed to come up with the materials necessary to convert those stores to Ballpark sellers. Damn near killed us all, including the "Mexicans" (the boss's term) he picked up at the day labor place to help with the cutting.

Anyway, we're doing another set of Xmas products, and one of the items is a set of sales items that look like 2D holiday ornaments, to be hung in the store at various places, I assume. As I was opening the files, I was barely able to restrain myself when I saw one of these "ornaments" with a picture of a reasonably attractive woman hanging decorations on a tree on one half, and on the other half the following slogan:

"Trim with Fun!"

Well, one would certainly hope so, or what's the point? I hope that this will be marketed to UK outlets, I really really do.

One for the Anglophiles

I work for a company that produces large-format graphics: posters, banners, floor graphics, vehicle graphics, that kind of thing. Being as we are in Kansas City, we get a certain amount of work from a large greeting card company whose name rhymes with Ballpark. They spread the stuff around, in part to keep from being stuck with a single supplier, as well as to give local companies a piece of the "very best" pie.

Most of what we do are short run items for promotional displays to be shown to store owners at their trade shows. We make a couple of dozen of things, they are shown, stores decide to order them, and the actual product is produced in China. We are very small (5 people, including the owner), and couldn't produce the quantity of product they require. We got lucky (for miscellanous values thereof [thank you, elaine_brennan, for that lovely phrase]) in 2006 when CVS bought Osco and got tabbed to come up with the materials necessary to convert those stores to Ballpark sellers. Damn near killed us all, including the "Mexicans" (the boss's term) he picked up at the day labor place to help with the cutting.

Anyway, we're doing another set of Xmas products, and one of the items is a set of sales items that look like 2D holiday ornaments, to be hung in the store at various places, I assume. As I was opening the files, I was barely able to restrain myself when I saw one of these "ornaments" with a picture of a reasonably attractive woman hanging decorations on a tree on one half, and on the other half the following slogan:

"Trim with Fun!"

Well, one would certainly hope so, or what's the point? I hope that this will be marketed to UK outlets, I really really do.