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Photo-A-Day #945 11/09/07

Today after the conference I went to meet up with the Posties at the Bellagio. I missed the whole event. I was taking the bus from place to place and it took forever to get there and then I walked over to Caramel and no one was still there. Oh well. I totally missed the photo and the fun. Tomorrow night I will have to make sure I spend time with the Posties.

Instead I ended up heading over to Margaritaville. I was certainly dressed for it. I love the Mad Gringo Hawaiian shirts. They are so comfortable and I got many, many compliments on it today. People out of nowhere said that they liked the shirt and at Margaritaville even more people loved it. I got some tasty fajitas and even some dessert. I just felt like because I was in Vegas and I walked all up and down the strip I could get a little dessert. I go the chocolate hurricane. Oh my God it was so delicious.

After dinner I went over to the gift shop and picked up a few things for myself and Allison and Eva too. Then I went and sat in the awesome chairs. I took a few pictures and then caught the bus. I got upstairs and realized that I left the gifts in a bag next to the chair. I jumped off at the next bus stop and ran all the way back to Margaritaville. I burst through the door and there was a guy sitting in the chair looking through the back and at the receipt. Panting, I asked him if he had just found that next to the chair he said yes and I told him what happened and he handed it right back to me. I was so surprised to see that it was still there. So not Allison and Eva get gifts that aren’t just from the convention.

I went back out to the bus and the line was huge. I stood there and waited then an ambulance came up because some guy was really very drunk and dry heaving. So they loaded him up and I decided to walk back to where the bus dropped me off about one half hour earlier. I caught another bus and went back to the hotel.

Photos coming tomorrow when I can get them uploaded.

The Mad Gringo has arrived….

Photo-A-Day #944b 11/08/07

Well, the stuff I ordered from Mad Gringo arrived. Back on the 5th of October I did a blog post for The Mad Gringo on my blog BenSpark 2: Electric Boogaloo. It was all about going slow, the way of life of the Mad Gringo. I love that motto. So I went to the site and saw that they had stickers that said Go Slow or Die. I wanted some so I started an order. For 20 stickers at $1.00 each the shipping was almost half the price so I wrote to the Mad Gringo. Unfortunately there wasn’t much that we could do about shipping but he said he’d send me a few of them. Sweet! this was a nice guy who knew that people who were interested in his stuff would talk it up to friends and family alike.

I went back to the site and looked closer. There I discovered the Trunk. this is where the close outs are. These are shirts that the Gringo is clearing out and they are 1/2 price. Well, I went and bought 3 shirts, and two T-Shirts because the logo is awesome. I immediately wrote the Mad Gringo back and told him of my purchase and he tossed in some stickers for me. Now I am back in the office and my Go Slow or Die sticker is in my cubicle. I’ve distributed my Go Slow stickers to friends and am looking forward to later this week when I can wear my Mad Gringo Hawaiian Shirts to Blog World Expo.

There may even be a contest for you to get your own Mad Gringo shirt. I’ve got to talk to the Mad Gringo again to set it up. Watch this blog in for more details.