Clapboard - Full Frontal Nerdity

When you need plexiglass in LA and you don't drive a full-size truck, you're going to have some trouble.  There are places that will deliver to businesses and there are places that will deliver for any order of $250 or more, but there aren't any places that deliver a single piece (or even two pieces) of plexiglass.

Until Gavrieli Plastics.  I'm withholding full judgement until the delivery is complete, but their plexi prices were competitive and the delivery charge was high (at $60!), but not as high as a place that quoted me "$90 or so" when I asked if there were any non-commercial options.

Anyway, in case you were interested in how I (re-)found Gavreli, I searched Clapboard.  Honestly.  I had exhausted fuckin' Google searching for things like "plexiglass 90068" and "plexiglass San Fernando Valley" - it was a full-on Google fail.  But here we are.  I had to look in the code because the old site wasn't translated exactly perfectly (an href had somehow become a comment...), but that's okay - there was a telltale gap in the story (that I'm going to restore RIGHT NOW) and I checked the code and bang.  Gold.

That is all for now.  Plexi on Monday.  More code right now, then cooking later.  Fun fuckin' times.  Thanksgiving is coming and that table won't collage itself.

Yesterday, I did a short prompting gig with Natalie Cole - this music prompting thing is kinda cool.  I got to hear Natalie perform "Unforgettable" live (although she wasn't singing full-out, because it was to tracks), which was fun.  Then I came home and wrote code for the better part of six hours.  I've been watching Star Treks to keep me from going stir crazy, but even they aren't doing it 100%.

I've been working on three websites at the same time these days, which can get hectic, but has the benefit of providing me with an ever-changing cornucopia of code and nerd choices to make.  Otherwise, it's been a pretty uneventful few days.  I'm already nervous about Thanksgiving - how am I going to have everything ready in a mere week?  You can bet I'll be spending afternoons making food pretty much from now till next Thursday.  At least Applesauce.

Right now, the number stands at 24 and I don't think I can handle any more.  That's already pretty crazy, but it'll have to do.  I think on my list for tomorrow is going to Home Depot and buying some of the crap I need, as well as one thing I sorely want.  I'll update as I know more.

Stressful day on the tech front as I update the ShoeHardware.com website and hope it all goes according to plan.

I finished my green screen, too, which is pretty rad.  I'll post pictures below the jump.

Now I'm working on ilpunali (again, I know) and hoping that we're going to be ready to go in mere days, rather than in, oh, never?  This thing, while awesome in theory, has become a nightmare in practice.  I'm a little past frustrated with this thing, and I'm ready to see some sales.  I'm gunshy, of course, because I sent out 1000 emails last time and ended up looking like a fool in front of all those people.  This time, we're going to soft-launch and take things as they go.  At least, I am.

I also bought a Pelican Case yesterday to fit our Presidentials setup, which is good, because we booked a new gig for Tuesday.  Fun times.  Pictures of that, too, below the jump.