So it’s been a few weeks… Vegas was an ass-kicker!  We basically had 9 solid days and nights of non-stop talking and drinking.  Between the Anti-Workshop and the WPPI tradeshow, we barely had a spare minute to eat, let alone relax.  Chenin’s blog and John’s Blog both have great recaps of the workshop, and have ample links to the online journals of many attendees, so I’ll mostly skip the workshop talk and let you read all about it there!

The WPPI tradeshow really drained us… since we’re new to doing tradeshows, and since we don’t have any friends inside the organization, we basically got the last possible choice of booth, which was in the back corner of the “Venue Booth” section.  Basically, this wasn’t the tradeshow per se, but a collection of small booths outside the main ballrooms where the bigger seminars were.  The hours, therefore, were super wacky.  We had to be in the booth by 7:30, stay till 11, then go somewhere else till 4, come back, and then stay until 9:30.  That’s basically like a 14-hour day with a long lunch break.  All I wanted to do when I got home was sleep…

But of course, I promptly came back, surfed for a couple hours, and caught a cold.  All the Vegas air, drinking, talking, and generally abusing my body for 10 days was fine… two hours of germy water pushed it over the edge.

And before I even THOUGHT about trying to accomplish any real work, I had three days of office cleaning to do… my work area had become so messy, cluttered, disorganized, and generally disheveled after months of storing a tradeshow booth next to my desk, that I literally couldn’t get anything done.  So I rented a 7×10′ storage space, and gleefully filled it up with all the crap that we don’t want but can’t part with, most of which was sitting in piles around my office chair.  The gals at the storage space were starting to get on a first name basis with me…

Then AFTER that, I had to deal with some ecommerce drama, which I’ll tell you about in the next post…

Meanwhile, I’ll just leave you with this photo of the bathroom of the Double Down Saloon in Vegas.  I don’t know why…