Back home, a weekend report and a discussion of Sirius Satellite Radio
Well THAT was an exhausting weekend. Usually, I take an extra day or two off work the weekend of the Sebastopol Celtic Festival. Otherwise, I end up doing what I did this weekend ... pack up, drive, unpack, work, work, pack up, drive, back to work and unpack sometime during the week after. No time to stop and relax. Mason, bless his heart, helped me out all weekend and managed to tolerate with some understanding my general grumpiness and neverending exhaustion. I ended up missing my Monday night class in Tucson last night -- definitely not a good thing, but I had my homework done ahead of time and was able to e-mail it to my professor at approximately the same time he would have been collecting them from my classmates, so it should be OK. I hope.
In the end, though, it was a pretty good weekend ... probably the slowest Sebastopol business in years, but I blame that partly on the fact that other than the new stuff I had for the San Diego debacle in June, I didn't get any new inventory for this festival. On top of that, though, attendance seemed to be down a bit. Still, it wasn't a total disaster the way San Diego was this summer and Salt Lake City was last summer. And we got in a Saturday evening visit to Ikea in Emeryville, managing to get out with just a rug, some napkins and a few light bulbs.
So anyway, I rented a big freaking SUV for this weekend's travel and got to experience the installed Sirius Satellite.
(This just in: REALLY funny station promo just ran on our local Air America affiliate. More to come in the next journal/blog entry)
OK, so back to Sirius. Hooked. Totally hooked. It rocks. Spent most of the time listening to the Air America station, the New Wave station and OutQ, which bills itself as something along the lines of America's GLBT station. This last is uneven but occasionally really entertaining, especially the eclectic late-night music show. LOVE the New Wave station, too.
Costs too much. But we're getting it anyway. Score one more for cooperative marketing.
In the end, though, it was a pretty good weekend ... probably the slowest Sebastopol business in years, but I blame that partly on the fact that other than the new stuff I had for the San Diego debacle in June, I didn't get any new inventory for this festival. On top of that, though, attendance seemed to be down a bit. Still, it wasn't a total disaster the way San Diego was this summer and Salt Lake City was last summer. And we got in a Saturday evening visit to Ikea in Emeryville, managing to get out with just a rug, some napkins and a few light bulbs.
So anyway, I rented a big freaking SUV for this weekend's travel and got to experience the installed Sirius Satellite.
(This just in: REALLY funny station promo just ran on our local Air America affiliate. More to come in the next journal/blog entry)
OK, so back to Sirius. Hooked. Totally hooked. It rocks. Spent most of the time listening to the Air America station, the New Wave station and OutQ, which bills itself as something along the lines of America's GLBT station. This last is uneven but occasionally really entertaining, especially the eclectic late-night music show. LOVE the New Wave station, too.
Costs too much. But we're getting it anyway. Score one more for cooperative marketing.
posted by Chris | 9:54 AM
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