The word of the day is: Awesome.
Today has been awesome. Which is awesome, because there is still some today left, in which things could potentially still be awesome.
At some point in the past, I was scheduled to do a focus group with Nichols Research. I came in, and it turned out that they had double-booked it, so I was given my money and sent on my merry way, for doing nothing more than coming into their office for 45 minutes and waiting around, drinking their free soda. The especially awesome part of that is that makes me eligible to come back for another session, since I wasn't able to do the first. Cue today. I was scheduled to go into their SF branch for another session at 11:00. I went in, and again, it was double-booked. Turns out they chose the other guy to do the focus group, so once again, I was given my money and sent on my merry way. While waiting around, I had a chance to chat with some of the people who did the interviews and screening process for the focus groups. They told me a few stories about other people they had had in for focus groups, and also told me of one kid that they had ended up not using so many times, it became a game with them to see how often they could bring him into the office and not use him. He was able to tell his friends that he had a sort-of job, coming into their office and waiting around for half an hour or an hour, then getting paid and sent on. The interviewers told me that I'm going to be their next game, which is A-OK by me. At $150 a pop, that's not chump change.
So I'm finished there in about an hour, instead of the 2½ I had expected. I go back to the parking lot, and it turns out that if I spend 1:01 or 1:59 parked there, the price is still $5, so I decide to go exploring downtown SF, and incidentally cash the $150 check that is burning a hole in my pocket. Along the way to the bank, I pass by this neat little store called kar'ikter, and it turns out to be the most awesome thing in the entire world. They had Tintin comic books, and Asterix comic books, and random assorted merchandise, and those books that were short, with iconic characters with names like Mr. Nobody, and Mrs. Nose, and that sort of thing. This was HUGE nostalgia for me, and I ended up buying an Asterix book, and volume 2 out of the Tintin collection.
The other incredibly awesome thing, which even less people will care about than Tintin, is that my dad came back from Israel recently, and brought with him two CDs: A new Ethnix CD (amazing) and a new Mashina CD (less amazing, but still really good). I've been listening to the Ethnix CD nearly non-stop since I got it last night. Whew, so good.
Man, I'm still smiling over the Asterix thing.
Oh, and a girl at the bank was carrying her chihuahua in her purse. Who does that? Hilarious.
QOTD: Here leezard, leezard, leezard... I think I'm going to need a bigger box.
Whatever happened to that dog?
At some point in the past, I was scheduled to do a focus group with Nichols Research. I came in, and it turned out that they had double-booked it, so I was given my money and sent on my merry way, for doing nothing more than coming into their office for 45 minutes and waiting around, drinking their free soda. The especially awesome part of that is that makes me eligible to come back for another session, since I wasn't able to do the first. Cue today. I was scheduled to go into their SF branch for another session at 11:00. I went in, and again, it was double-booked. Turns out they chose the other guy to do the focus group, so once again, I was given my money and sent on my merry way. While waiting around, I had a chance to chat with some of the people who did the interviews and screening process for the focus groups. They told me a few stories about other people they had had in for focus groups, and also told me of one kid that they had ended up not using so many times, it became a game with them to see how often they could bring him into the office and not use him. He was able to tell his friends that he had a sort-of job, coming into their office and waiting around for half an hour or an hour, then getting paid and sent on. The interviewers told me that I'm going to be their next game, which is A-OK by me. At $150 a pop, that's not chump change.
So I'm finished there in about an hour, instead of the 2½ I had expected. I go back to the parking lot, and it turns out that if I spend 1:01 or 1:59 parked there, the price is still $5, so I decide to go exploring downtown SF, and incidentally cash the $150 check that is burning a hole in my pocket. Along the way to the bank, I pass by this neat little store called kar'ikter, and it turns out to be the most awesome thing in the entire world. They had Tintin comic books, and Asterix comic books, and random assorted merchandise, and those books that were short, with iconic characters with names like Mr. Nobody, and Mrs. Nose, and that sort of thing. This was HUGE nostalgia for me, and I ended up buying an Asterix book, and volume 2 out of the Tintin collection.
The other incredibly awesome thing, which even less people will care about than Tintin, is that my dad came back from Israel recently, and brought with him two CDs: A new Ethnix CD (amazing) and a new Mashina CD (less amazing, but still really good). I've been listening to the Ethnix CD nearly non-stop since I got it last night. Whew, so good.
Man, I'm still smiling over the Asterix thing.
Oh, and a girl at the bank was carrying her chihuahua in her purse. Who does that? Hilarious.
QOTD: Here leezard, leezard, leezard... I think I'm going to need a bigger box.
Whatever happened to that dog?