"Trade Show"

My trip to "Frost Bike" or
What I did on winter break,
by dad-e-O
Frostbike is a largish tradeshow, hosted by QBP, which is the largest distributer of most things bike in the industry. We were invited to attend by our sales rep, they picked up a bunch of the meals, and the room, as well as transportation. In addition to the actual show, there were a mess of meetings that we attended in order to learn more about the biz, processes, procedures, hints for success. That sort of thing.

Thursday AM we dropped Max off at school, took care of a few last minute errands, including picking up the camera (which we didn't use) and hit the road. We had already arranged to have one of the girls Tif works with to stay with the boys (and girls). Made arrangements for increased security at the shop, blah, blah.

Trip Highlights that you may find less then boring:
-Upon Check in, I was told that I was going to have a room mate, but it worked out, cause it was Tif.
-The room was nice, but with double beds, not being 22 anylonger, we pretty much slept like Fred and Wilma, in seperate beds.
-We had dinner at this cool place called the depot, which is a converted train station, the main room of which is an ice-rink, that they put flooring over in order to seat people, the dinner was lovely, but the entertainment was REALLY boring, I nodded off.
-We took a tour of the facility, it was fuckin huge, like mamoth. the organizational nightmare it must be to distribute that much stuff, is pretty amazing.
-At one of the meals, the "plastic forks" were actually made from potatoes.
-I drank enough beer over the few days, that on the way home, we stopped for Lunch/dinner at Outback, and I took a pass. (not on booze, just on beer, I had gin)
-We came home inspired to make more changes, and move more stuff in the shop.
-We bought tif a super cool wheels set, pretty colors, the money went to charity, the wheels go to us.

Otherwise you would pretty much have to be a bike geek to have any real interest in the goings on, even Tif had to pretend to be interested sometimes.
Thanks for listening

Crazy Hair Day 2009

sorry about the crappy pic, but my good camera is at the shop so this is a cell phone pic


Crazy hair day keeps getting funner...
This time.
Max and I missed our cue, NBFD to him.
Jake on the other hand, a few days ago he decided to dye his hair red (it came out sorta pink..)for Spirit week with his swim team, and to make it crazier, he took some red hair goop, and made some liberty spikes. All by himself.

From the Mouths

So my older son is here at the shop and we are playing sort of an informal name that tune. It's a long running game: when a new song comes on, someone spouts off with as much information about the song as possible.
It's starting to slow down at the shop so I have been playing "My" music from my laptop's I-tunes.
and Son#1 says "Dad, thanks for introducing me to the cool music you listen to" he's going to be 12 this week.
That's it, I just thought it was cool, and I wanted to share.

changes!?

the more observant of you may have noticed I have changed the link on the right side of our blog. where I was sharing pictures of my family, I am now sharing a link to my other blog. It's dedicated to our business, and the address of it will be on all my business related stuff, for now it our shops only presence on the WWW. (so if you decide to post, be nice please!)
I may later re-add the flicker pics link... when I figure out how to add not just edit stuff in that fancy computer language.
Just thought I would share....
this is a very exciting and nerve racking time for us here in AH. cause we are making MAJOR life changes, and throwing everything we know into the air.