Go West Young (Wo)Man!

The month of August was a VERY busy travel month. I may post about it. I HOPE to post about it. In the meantime, here's the flickr pics of the drive I took across the country with my sis as we ventured from her place in Chicago back to my place in California. Peep them here.

Tr!ckster!...The Legend Continues

Oh, how the time flies! Many apologies for the late update. Where were we? Oh, yes! Setting up shop!

(above, Tr!ckster glasses with the first of our "High Five" boozes. This was for our "Quality Control" test. Never let it be said we don't care about quality!)



It's still Sunday and we've sorted all the books and started to lay out the store. Steve starts putting the shelves together. Scott and Ted get the tables set and I triple check the inventory to make sure I've got everything and know where it's all sitting.






We get some merchandise on the shelves before it's time to call it a night. Only one more day of set up before we OPEN!

Monday dawns bright and sunny. We all get straight to work. Quickly putting stuff on the tables and arranging backstock as fast as we possibly can. It takes a LOT longer than we could have imagined.







Sooo much stuff!

Scott, Ted and I take a break to celebrate my birthday - a day early. My actual birthday would fall on our opening day and we didn't think we'd have any time to dash out (we were correct). So we opted for what has become the traditional place to celebrate my bday in San Diego (as 'Con tends to fall on my bday) Lou & Mickey's! Ah, steak and Maytag martinis. Does it get any better?



I can taste that cool martini right now. Refreshing!

Before you know it, Monday was done and we were scrambling to finish our set up for TUESDAY - Opening Night!


Here's Scott assuring Allen Spiegel and Co. that we'll be finished with the set up by the time the doors open for business. HA!

And suddenly, we were off to the races!*
*I neglected to snap a single photo on the first day. Too busy! Here are photos from the following days. All excellent!



Inside the store! Madness!


The patio was the place to be!



Thanks, Ted - for making Tr!ckster happen.

Thank, Scott - for making Tr!ckster happen.

I cannot tell you guys (all) how much it meant to me to be a part of this wonderful event. Inspiring, exhausting, exciting, entertaining, hectic, stressful, wonderful!


Thanks to all who stopped by! Hope we see you at the NEXT Tr!ckster!