Soft Opening

Well, the store is open now. Again my excuse for sloppy blogging, but I don't think anyone reads this thing anyway. I'm sure it is not quite dance-able yet, after all there are no music or vegetables. But it's mine, well ours really. If there are items you would like to see in the store, but do not yet, please let me know and I will try to provide them. Big Thanksgiving sale going on now. Most of the stuff in there are things I think are cool, but it is quite time consuming tracking down suppliers for particular things, so the store is not nearly complete. Check back often for new green gadgets and gizmos.

I used to do the computer weenie thing for a living, but that was nine years ago now, and it is amazing how much I have forgotten, and even more amazing how things have changed. What used to be simple html commands, now require a degree in quantum physics and a scripting language to accomplish, but so it goes. The web looks pretty these days.

I still remember the days of the command line interface, when e-mail was sent via BITNET and Gopher was all the rage. (Unless you are an academician, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about, but it's like the difference between paper and a pencil, and Microsoft Word). I was going to say a slide rule and a calculator, but I didn't think anyone would get that one either.
Anyway, if you want to poke around, my store is called B & B Stuff and can be found at www.bandbgoodstuff.com just in case you are interested.

Technology marches on, and here I go along with it.....again. I'm really psyched about alternative energy options, which is what the whole dance-able store thingy is all about. I want people to feel good about their choices. I like to see people smile, and it is hard not to smile when you are dancing among the vegetables. Next time you are in the grocery store, give it a whirl, or give yourself a whirl, see if it doesn't make you smile.

Ok, I'm WAAAAYYY behind in my blogging now. It's not funny and I make no apologies. I have been kind of busy. Ok, not that busy, but kind of. I'm working on an on-line store and it is going much more slowly than I would like. I want to have the kind of store you can dance in.

My wife and I do a lot of store dancing. We find the produce aisle in the County Market in Punxsutawney most inviting. The music is good, and when the vegetable mister comes on it is like dancing in the rain forest. It's really nice. Sometimes people look at us funny, and one night some woman suggested that we get a room. I explained we already had a whole house, but it lacked vegetables, so we wanted to do our dancing there, thank you very much!

WalMart, on the other hand, just doesn't have that “Come inside and dance” kind of feel to it. Yes their prices on some things are good, but their vegetables just aren't as perky and the music is lousy. We have danced there, but it's just not the same. Give me County Market any day.

So that's what I'm trying to create, without the produce, or the mister, or any actual aisles at all, but still someplace where when you click yourself inside, you just want to get up and dance.

I'll keep you posted on how it's going