The Adnostic

Because things have been a little slow at work (people catching up from the Holidays, me being new) I have passed much of the time the last two days either reading (marketing blogs, tech news, advertising news, and internal documents) or preparing for SXSW Interactive. It's only two months away. The countdown has begun.

I bought my plane ticket, only to realize after purchase that I had bought it for the wrong month. A phone call to American Airlines and an extra $100 later, I have the right ticket, for the right flight, at the right time, and will be sitting closer to the front of the plane. I prefer being one of the last people on and the first people off.

I bought a new laptop bag. The laptop case I have is the free one that came with the computer. I have decorated it with stickers, but it still sucks. Finding a casual laptop bag that wasn't black, suited my style, had a comfortable looking shoulder strap, and was under $50 seem to be an impossible task. Kolobags was unhelpful. eBags was a dead end. I liked the durable yet colorful look of the PaulPac bags, but for $90 and no extra features I had to pass. Plus the colors available on Kolo were just not right. I am simply not an army green and pink kind of girl. This is my burden.

Amazon came to my rescue by showing me a Tucano messenger bag in red for $50. It's just as colorful as the PaulPac and it has a padded and secure compartment for my 15" screen iBook, another compartment for my other junk, front compartments for pens, an iPod, a cell phone, and other small but important items. AND it was made in Italy, which is just plain cool and they don't utilize child labor. It's a total win-win.

Now for business cards. My new place of work probably won't get me business cards until after they hire me on full time in who knows how long, and besides, I needed cards specific to me and my blog. I needed Adnostic Cards! iPrint to the rescue! Using their website I was able to upload one of the Evil Kid devil girls to use as the background, change the text and font to my liking, and print out a sample before purchase. In full color too! In about two weeks I should have 250 of my new Adnostic business cards ready for distribution all for under $30. How cool is that?

Sure, it's pink and I'm not a really big fan of pink. I had considered going with a red background but I figured that would be too hard to read. At least they will have a devil girl. Everything is badass with a devil girl.