Friday, January 04, 2008

OMG!!!!!






THE DEED IS DONE!

Leave this old blog behind and.....
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Thank you Dave! Thank you Brock!

C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A

Hello folks! Its finally time to start the ol' blogger again after a brief holiday hiatus! As some of you may know, I'm spending 2 months in Cali visiting family & working on personal portfolio stuff while Ray is in training for his new job. My parents welcomed me (housekeeper/dogwatcher) with open arms and occasionally they let me out of the house for a few hours! HA!



For nearly 3 weeks I couldn't stand to look at my cameras or talk about weddings. The itch to shoot, from the heart, is back again after a nice break. Here are a few snaps from the Marina area! Ich Liebe California! (i love california)

A neat little factory hung in the background...


My first time seeing an artichoke in the fields!

Here's my goofy parents trying out their new motorcycle PA system.


On our way to the New Year's celebration downtown. The "first night" celebration kicked off with warm weather & GREAT musicians! The shuttle carted thousands of people downtown, felt like we were in Europe again riding public transportation.


HELLOOO!!!!


Party animals in the crowd-hundreds of people stormed the stage

my dad & I at the British pub. Happy times

my mom experienced Captain Patron for the first time. don't think she liked it! ha!!!

Local Belly dancers performing downtown

The explosion of confetti at countdown!


Feeling a little woozy at this point! I guess the tagline should read: you don't need to be 100% sober to take a picture. :-)


HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

How NOT to treat a customer

Customer service is extremely important to me, I'm careful who I give my business to. Life is too short to pay for bad service.

story: I requested information from this website company I've decided to launch with. Mistake #1 . Why? No returned coorespondance for weeks. If its one thing I can't stand, its flakey people. These web gurus never answered my emails, no phone number is listed, so I just fired off emails backdating to Dec 19th, as often as I could to various addresses on their site, hoping to get in contact with ONE human being. I waited. And waited. And waited. If they didn't have such great websites, I would go elsewhere.

At long last, this morning I get a note from the project director, whom I have never spoken with (hence no phone number listed on their site) and i LOVE her snide approach. This tells me that I can take my business elsewhere and give them the finger.

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April,
I emailed you yesterday why are you telling our support team you have not been contacted. Did you and I not speak late last night during my time off .Let me know maybe you are a different April Greer.

Signed xxxx**

Here's me giving them the finger.