Look at it all bein’ packed up. Well, at least the most grueling part of show is over… the behind the scenes work has been happening all day today. I’ll place my bet that we made over $200,000 during show this time… which is a major haul. It’ll be days before we have a final number, but I’ve seen some of the preliminaries and it looks swell. So, what kinds of things did we learn during show this time? Well, for one… I love models:

They just make show great! I also learned that you should never question anything. What do dancers have to do with a hair show? Couldn’t tell ya, but here they were:

They were a huge hit, but I still have no idea why they were there! I’ll tell ya, the show was completely packed this time, I know I haven’t been to many, but the last few paled in comparison. There were people everywhere, and I was told that most of the special shows ended up being standing room only towards the end. Some action (or inaction) shots:

Now that we have all that out of the way, I did wanna talk a bit about what I could only call “scams” but because of length those will probably be my next couple posts. In short, beware Ion Cleanse and LED Light Therepy, unless you like giving away money. If that is the case, I’ll take as much as you’d like to give!

Finally check out this neat place called St. Baldrick’s… from their site:

St. Baldrick’s is the world’s largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research. Thousands of volunteers shave their heads in solidarity of children with cancer, while requesting donations of support from friends and family.

At a St. Baldrick’s event, something amazing happens. People who normally shy away from the very thought of childhood cancer find themselves compelled to support this cause after looking into the face of these brave children who are smiling broadly as their friends and family members proudly display their newly shorn heads.

Volunteers and donors see it can be fun to support a serious cause. Young cancer patients and survivors see how many people care. And researchers see St. Baldrick’s funds helping to find cures!

How awesome is that? As a cancer survivor myself, I think this is truly a great program… so did Scott (on the right), as you can see below:

All in all, it was a great Show, but I don’t think I’ll be fully recovered until this weekend… it’s a rough job, but someone has to do it!

Models!

Nudity (missed that pic, sorry fellas!)!

More tomorrow!

Really, a basic understanding of English would be nice if you’re going to post signs all over the building.

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Bonus Fun Fact of the Day:

Did you know that Chlorphenamine (known over the counter as Chlor-Trimeton®) is an SSRI anti-depressant? It’s true! So if you know someone with allergies who is also on anti-depressants, have them steer clear of this stuff! Just a friendly fact from someone in the know!

http://www.dulceinc.com

The whole thing validates XHTML 1.0 Strict (nice!) and the only issues I can find with it so far (which I’ll be working on) are:

1. CSS issues in Safari.
2. CSS issues in Opera.
3. Calender doesn’t popup in IE due to a paragraph tag.

That’s not too shabby for a week’s worth of work, methinks! The next step is re-coding his MySpace page to match the rest of the site (if you see his gallery, that’s actually my custom coding of PixelPost). Anyway, it was fun and now I’m feeling all creative! I wonder what I should do next?

As someone in the IT field, I’m sick of consumers who don’t understand what they buy. If you go into a store and purchase a new laptop with Windows Vista on it, I don’t want to hear you keep asking “Where is my XP? Why did I get this Vista thing?” Seriously. I don’t know why it’s still acceptable for people to not know anything about technology. I’m not asking that everyone be a technophile, but really, have a little basic knowlege.

Above is a quick example… this is a scan of an actual note I got with a laptop yesterday (the color was added by me, it was a black & white scan). Sure, I’ll look into “Delete Vista” for you. *sigh*

Anyway, it’s time for me to rest my poor feet before I have to go back to work tomorrow… now I know why people cringe when someone mentions that show weekend is coming up.

I will say this, the show itself was amazing. I’ve never been to anything like it before. I was told that although we had thousands show up, next time will be bigger. Wow.

After show they put on an open house here at the new offices and invited all attendees to show up, so I decided to come and protect my office aquariums from all the now liquered up patrons (kegs + unlimited martinis downstairs = danger). Nothing happened, thank goodness.

All in all it was great, though I may never walk again…. except when part 2 happens tomorrow.

I haven’t been to ND for about 7 or 8 years now… I wonder if it’s changed much. Oh well, I got much more to do and not much time to do it in. My next post will probably be from Fargo, brrr, I get chills just thinking about it.