2 Legit 2 Quit
Holy cow it’s been a busy past two weeks! Last week we were finishing up our big Back-to-School program at work and it was all sorts of stressful and busy. I’ve never seen us all so on edge and quick to irritation before. I seriously thought someone was going to wind up fork-stabbed by the end of the week. Luckily, we all survived without any tine-wounds.
At the end of that week I and our trusty intern ventured to the BlogHer conference in San Francisco. The conference sessions weren’t applicable to work, but it was nice to attend a couple from the mindset of a personal blogger. On Sunday, Kaboodle sponsored the UnConference, an “open space” day where the hardcore bloggers, who wanted to stay for an extra day and discuss various things, could set their own agenda and all that. We got to man a little Kaboodle demo table and tell bloggers about the greatness that is Kaboodle. By the end of the day I sounded like an old smoker from talking so much and just wanted to sit and have a drink.
And that we did at the Clock Bar in the lobby of the St. Francis. We’d popped in on Saturday for a few minutes and it’s pretty nice. The service, at least at the bar, is a little slow, but the menu is all classic cocktails and they’re really tasty. Drink a Week has a nice review. We met that dude, who was friends with the lovely and rad Anne from Elastic Waist, whom we also met there. Popping in to the bar instead of going to the Dooce keynote turned out to be a good idea. I think we need to head up there on a Friday after work and drink lots of tasty cocktails.
We had a brief respite from all the work on Tuesday when the powers that be at Kaboodle celebrated the launch of the BTS program with some champagne, cake, the gift of iPods, and an afternoon trip to go see The Dark Knight. Now, it’s not all about the iPods and the champagne, but it sure as hell is nice to work for a company who truly appreciates the work we all do and values its employees. I never want to take that, and my lovely co-workers, for granted. I get up every day happy to go to work, even when I have a ton to do and am all stressed, and I know how lucky I am to be able to say that.
After Batman, it was back to work, prepping for the annual TechCrunch event. Kaboodle was a top-tier sponsor and we brought more than half our team (!!) to the event to work the various stations. This TechCrunch meetup has turned into the networking event out here and it was great for Kaboodle to be a part. It was funny to see how impressed people were every time I mentioned we were acquired by Hearst last year. But, no one was as impressed as they were when Hammer turned up.
That’s right. MC Hammer. He’s an investor in a site called DanceJam, and shows up at tech events to get the word out. I’m not sure if anyone cared about DanceJam in the end, but they sure as hell got excited about Hammer. Sadly, I decided it was time to walk around the event and get demos from various booths at exactly the time Hammer showed up and kicked it with the Kaboodle crew. Chris was texting and calling my phone but, unfortunately, I’d left my phone at our booth. So, while there are some fun pictures of the gang with Hammer, the only photo of me with He Who is 2 Legit 2 Quit is with some random dudes. They were so unimpressed that I insisted on crashing their photo with him. Ha, ha! Sorry, guys.
Somewhere during the week I managed to catch the death-flu that’s been spreading through our office. See, when you work with people with kids, they’re going to get sick and then you’re going to get sick. All in all I have a pretty mild case, but now that I finally have a moment to rest, I’m feeling sicker than I was the past several days. I think I need to keep going and doing stuff to distract myself from feeling crappy.
Good lord. I need to update this damn blog more often so the posts aren’t a million miles long. Anyway, I’ll leave you with a photo of some of the Kaboodle team and Hammer.
