Just a brief post to catch up on things. Yes, we have heat again; I hate our oil delivery company. How they managed to sludge up the tank so badly in less than three years is beyond me. Our HVAC repair folk are awesome, though. I can highly recommend the Baltimore-based MYCAV to anyone in that area.
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Today we hit a new milestone in our cafepress venture: we sold a thong.
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Our entries for the CafePress Anti-Valentine’s Day contest can be found in the Caffeinated Chicanery holiday section. All items in the two AVD design sections are marked down through 2/14/07 (Valentine’s Day). Here are the basic designs on a couple of representative items:
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So, as you may or may not remember, we entered our I’m not lazy, I’m just out of mana dark t-shirt in CafePress’ “Big Idea Holiday Contest” 2006. I wasn’t convinced that such a niche design could place, but hell if I wasn’t going to try my hardest. Well much to my surprise and delight, we came in second!
Not content to rest on our laurels, we fully intend to enter the upcoming “Anti-Valentine’s Day” contest, which begins on the 15th. Keep an eye out here for an announcement when we put our design up in a couple of days.
Molten to the Core Dark T-Shirt
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Selene update: the collar came off on the Friday before New Year’s. She’s all healed up, although it looks like she’s going to have a straight scar line down her belly, which is pretty weird, since this thing started out as an allergic reaction. Of course when she had the collar on for several weeks she couldn’t groom her fur, which drove her nuts, so now she’s over-grooming and leaving herself with little bare patches. Hopefully we’ll get her to stop that soon!
I have some good news regarding the cafepress shops, but it might be a couple of weeks before I can post it, so instead in the meantime here are some of our latest designs. First, the ones from the Gamers’ Heaven store:
And then of course, the ones from the Caffeinated Chicanery store, still in that new series of ours:
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The problem with taking a week off is that invariably we end up playing Warcraft with friends, which means we come up with more T-shirt ideas, but I’m not also putting together new designs–so I end up with a stack of ideas that could last me the rest of the year! I’ve gone ahead and put up the first few new ones, although I intend to stretch them out a bit so there’s always something new going up.
By the way, I don’t think I’ve noted this before, but cafepress does provide a nice little newsletter interface so that folks can sign up for newsletters from their favorite stores (the signup box is generally found at the bottom of the left-hand nav bar in each shop). We do use this feature, although we keep the newsletters brief and to the point, and once monthly for each shop. We’re going to start including subscribers-only sales in each issue, so please sign up if you like our stuff!
We have one new design up in the Caffeinated Chicanery shop, but it’s the start of a long series. In it, a mysterious graffiti artist has found a number of quotes about life and crossed out the ‘l’, replacing it with a ‘w’. The results should prove interesting, particularly as we were really on a roll the night we started churning these out (we have more than 30 ideas to cull):
Get a (W)ife Women’s Dark T-Shirt
There are also a couple of new designs in the Gamers’ Heaven shop, some of which are appropriate to both mmorpg and rpg players alike:
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Vacation starts tomorrow for me and goes through next week, so don’t expect to hear much from me around here. 
I gather cafepress has been on the receiving end of a bunch of DoS attacks this week, so also don’t be surprised if you have trouble getting to gamers’ heaven or caffeinated chicanery. It sucks that someone would screw over every single person running a shop there or trying to shop for last-minute gifts there, but there are always asses in the world happy to ruin someone’s day.
Have a merry holiday-of-your-choice, folks! Best wishes to everyone!
Well the antibiotic for my ear infection hates my stomach, but I called my doc more than two hours ago and still haven’t heard back (sigh). A gift my husband and I had sent to some good friends was supposedly delivered Friday (according to usps tracking info), but has not been seen. Not that this surprises me mind you–I still remember the time last year when a postal delivery person lobbed a small package into a snowbank in our lawn and walked off. If I hadn’t seen it I wouldn’t have even known it was there until Spring. It was soaked by the time I got to it, and to add insult to injury, it was meant for our neighbors across the street and a house or two down, not us (and no, the address wasn’t wrong or illegible). I’m still waiting to hear back from customer service at the company I ordered it from. I’m a huge fan and long-time customer (as in I think I’ve been buying from them for at least 15 years), but I don’t know how much they can do if the post office claims they delivered it.
I did manage to get a couple new designs up at cafepress, but then my computer locked up (I swear this thing is dying a slow death), so I think I’m going to quit while I’m ahead. Here are the new designs:
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I tend to be a bit behind the times, but hey, I did finally watch an “ask a ninja” video, of his first live appearance. (I originally embedded the video but I hate autoplay and for some reason couldn’t get it to shut off, and am not in the frame of mind for extended debugging.)
Now I’ll have to go find more. Which is probably why I resisted so long, of course; I didn’t want to have yet another time sink on my hands!
I haven’t been playing much Warcraft lately at least; I can’t get into much of the endgame stuff and I’ve gotten a tad bored of the leveling. Not to mention so many other people have dropped off lately due to boredom as well. If the expansion had come out at its original release date it probably would have been perfect; as it is it seems to be a bit late to avoid the boredom creep. Anyway, I’ve finally redone the rest of the level 70 dark shirt designs:
I also stumbled on an absolutely gorgeous piece of Warcraft fanart called The Winterspring Assault. Frankly it’s better than any official art out there!
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