Super Tardis!
This morning's moment of funny:
For those who don't know, I work for a liquor wholesale company--restaurants call us to place their orders, we deliver, blah blah blah. Considering the area (SE Texas), we get a lot of A) Mexican restaurants, and B) restaurant owners/employees that speak little to no English, or who have C) extremely garbled accents. As no one in our office speaks fluent Spanish, at current, this can lead to the occasional issue, but we usually manage to work around it.
First thing in the morning, I come in and check our voice mail to see who placed orders there over the weekend. There were only two messages, and one was not an order. The one that was I listened to five times to get all the information. Most of it made sense, except for the name of the restaurant:
Super Tardis ala Coco
After searching through quickbooks for awhile, I found the correct name: Super Tortas Acapulco. XD
In other news, I was mildly productive this weekend! :3 Just... not in the way I was supposed to be. D: I got most of my room cleaned and re-organized--all that is left is the bedroom area, which doesn't really bother me so much. I need to strip the bed and wash the linens, but I can do that tonight. The business end of the room is nearly complete, however.
I moved furniture, dusted everything, and basically got myself set up with a much better work-space than I had before. I really, really wish I had a place for my old art-desk, but that isn't going to happen--at least not until I get rid of some shit. I wouldn't mind being able to take down the rickety make-shift "shelves" my cousin rigged up in there, but that is the sort of job that requires a weekends worth of full-time attention to, plus enlisting Jr.'s strength. (The structure is part aluminum siding, part concrete blocks stacked to the ceiling. It's dangerous, and not at all attached to the wall. x.x)
If I were to get rid of those, I could find a cheap desk/shelving unit at IKEA or something that would give me MUCH more organization and work space (hell, I already picked out two from their uncatalogued that would be awesome)... shit, now I want to do that. =.= But I shouldn't. Not, at least, until I know if I'll be moving soon or not.
All this uncertainty is ruining my nesting tendencies.
Another product of this weekend is that I'm thinking about getting into the Artist Alley con-life. I've thought about it before, but I now that I have friends who are doing it, and I'm not in school anymore, it seems like it could be fun. Navigating the tax laws for it is difficult, but I think with a little bit of research that it's navigate-able.
The bigger issue is about things to sell, and if I even have a chance at it. Original works are all well and good--and I would obviously be trying to produce some for con purposes--fanart sells better. I wouldn't (and don't) really expect conning to be lucrative, but I would hope to be able to at least make back my investment, after taxes and everything is concerned. The only real "issue" with this is that I don't have much to do with the current anime fads.
I'm going to be going to the Anime Matsuri con two weeks from now--for Saturday, at least, and maaaybe Sunday--and doing some market "research" there. What people are offering, the major characters...but more importantly, what characters are missing. I have a strong feeling that doing buttons or the like of characters who are lesser known might have a bit of a market. For instance, Sailor Moon is still VERY popular, but I rarely see any buttons/chibis/etc of the Amazon Quartet, even though they have a fanbase. Or the Shitennou for that matter. Most of what gets made are the Senshi and/or Tux Max.
Granted, this might not be true at all cons, but I don't remember seeing anything of the like at the few I've been to, or posted to places like dA, where button designs are often displayed with a "will be at X con" note.
If anyone has suggestions of lesser-noted characters from like... Naruto, Death Note, Soul Eater, Kingdom Hearts, etc... pls to be mentioning it. XD
Right now I'm looking at getting a table at the Delta H con in august as a test run. Mostly because it's a tiny, second year con with cheap tables. So if I hate it, I haven't wasted that much money. I'll also (probably) be dragging Ami with me, who is uber excited. She was supposed to go to Matsuri with me, too, but that is, sadly, not working out. D:
Which reminds me, if anyone is going to be at Matsuri on Sat, and you wanna get together, SAY SOMETHING. :D I would love to have company! I know I need to mention it to you, Natalie, since you asked a few weeks ago, but there are a few other Texans on my f-list....
Hmmm, what else.
V, you need to help me beat Keanu into shape or something if you want that chapter. Though Nick has been making noise that his chapter might come first. If you're wondering what is taking so freaking long, it's the fact that I ended up writing 6k words of useless material for Keanu because I started the chapter "too soon." (I seriously had to cut it, or else the chapter would go massively slow and be about fifty pages long--aka, the problem with MIN.)
Also, I cannot breathe. GD I LOVE ALLERGY SEASON. /slits wrist/
For those who don't know, I work for a liquor wholesale company--restaurants call us to place their orders, we deliver, blah blah blah. Considering the area (SE Texas), we get a lot of A) Mexican restaurants, and B) restaurant owners/employees that speak little to no English, or who have C) extremely garbled accents. As no one in our office speaks fluent Spanish, at current, this can lead to the occasional issue, but we usually manage to work around it.
First thing in the morning, I come in and check our voice mail to see who placed orders there over the weekend. There were only two messages, and one was not an order. The one that was I listened to five times to get all the information. Most of it made sense, except for the name of the restaurant:
Super Tardis ala Coco
After searching through quickbooks for awhile, I found the correct name: Super Tortas Acapulco. XD
In other news, I was mildly productive this weekend! :3 Just... not in the way I was supposed to be. D: I got most of my room cleaned and re-organized--all that is left is the bedroom area, which doesn't really bother me so much. I need to strip the bed and wash the linens, but I can do that tonight. The business end of the room is nearly complete, however.
I moved furniture, dusted everything, and basically got myself set up with a much better work-space than I had before. I really, really wish I had a place for my old art-desk, but that isn't going to happen--at least not until I get rid of some shit. I wouldn't mind being able to take down the rickety make-shift "shelves" my cousin rigged up in there, but that is the sort of job that requires a weekends worth of full-time attention to, plus enlisting Jr.'s strength. (The structure is part aluminum siding, part concrete blocks stacked to the ceiling. It's dangerous, and not at all attached to the wall. x.x)
If I were to get rid of those, I could find a cheap desk/shelving unit at IKEA or something that would give me MUCH more organization and work space (hell, I already picked out two from their uncatalogued that would be awesome)... shit, now I want to do that. =.= But I shouldn't. Not, at least, until I know if I'll be moving soon or not.
All this uncertainty is ruining my nesting tendencies.
Another product of this weekend is that I'm thinking about getting into the Artist Alley con-life. I've thought about it before, but I now that I have friends who are doing it, and I'm not in school anymore, it seems like it could be fun. Navigating the tax laws for it is difficult, but I think with a little bit of research that it's navigate-able.
The bigger issue is about things to sell, and if I even have a chance at it. Original works are all well and good--and I would obviously be trying to produce some for con purposes--fanart sells better. I wouldn't (and don't) really expect conning to be lucrative, but I would hope to be able to at least make back my investment, after taxes and everything is concerned. The only real "issue" with this is that I don't have much to do with the current anime fads.
I'm going to be going to the Anime Matsuri con two weeks from now--for Saturday, at least, and maaaybe Sunday--and doing some market "research" there. What people are offering, the major characters...but more importantly, what characters are missing. I have a strong feeling that doing buttons or the like of characters who are lesser known might have a bit of a market. For instance, Sailor Moon is still VERY popular, but I rarely see any buttons/chibis/etc of the Amazon Quartet, even though they have a fanbase. Or the Shitennou for that matter. Most of what gets made are the Senshi and/or Tux Max.
Granted, this might not be true at all cons, but I don't remember seeing anything of the like at the few I've been to, or posted to places like dA, where button designs are often displayed with a "will be at X con" note.
If anyone has suggestions of lesser-noted characters from like... Naruto, Death Note, Soul Eater, Kingdom Hearts, etc... pls to be mentioning it. XD
Right now I'm looking at getting a table at the Delta H con in august as a test run. Mostly because it's a tiny, second year con with cheap tables. So if I hate it, I haven't wasted that much money. I'll also (probably) be dragging Ami with me, who is uber excited. She was supposed to go to Matsuri with me, too, but that is, sadly, not working out. D:
Which reminds me, if anyone is going to be at Matsuri on Sat, and you wanna get together, SAY SOMETHING. :D I would love to have company! I know I need to mention it to you, Natalie, since you asked a few weeks ago, but there are a few other Texans on my f-list....
Hmmm, what else.
V, you need to help me beat Keanu into shape or something if you want that chapter. Though Nick has been making noise that his chapter might come first. If you're wondering what is taking so freaking long, it's the fact that I ended up writing 6k words of useless material for Keanu because I started the chapter "too soon." (I seriously had to cut it, or else the chapter would go massively slow and be about fifty pages long--aka, the problem with MIN.)
Also, I cannot breathe. GD I LOVE ALLERGY SEASON. /slits wrist/