Part 2 of 5 of Dennmann's cool Showdown story.
Be sure to start with yesterday's strip, in case you missed it.
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Danny Rant:
I know that it probably sounds boring by now, but we're hip deep in SDCC preparations.
We did have 2 (!!!) events last week/weekend, and I have to ask myself what the heck I was thinking of when I agreed to do them.
Yeah, they were both great to do, but man... we're busy. Really busy.
I'm mopping up the remnants of the weekend attempting to get stuff done that didn't get done due to the events. This is cutting some stuff dangerously close and some new products may not make it to production now.
We're still stamping out hundreds of buttons, and we're stamping and bagging and signing 4000 new 8x10 kawaii prints. I can comfortably sign about 250 prints an hour. (What's that, 16 hrs of signing alone?)
It's not that I don't like local events, because I do. I just don't like them this close to a mega-event, like the San Diego Comic-Con.
Lesson 1: Don't do local events so close to big events.
Lesson 2: Make the events count. (Which I think we did this weekend.)
Lesson 3: Learn how to say "no" more often.
Lesson 4: Read this list 10 more times and commit it to memory.
Now again, I'm glad that we did what we did this weekend. Don't get me wrong... it's not the events themselves that were bad... it's their timing. I again underestimated the amount of time it takes to prep for events, hang art, and drive across the city.
I'm going to do a better job in the future to not punish our lives with so many mega-committments.
If I say "no thanks" to your event in the future, don't take it personally. We've just got a lot going on and are attempting to survive.
Heck, it's for our sanity, if nothing else.
Nuff said. I've got a bunch of work to do, Patriots!
- Daniel
