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BPB Bay Park Buzzy Tiki Socialite West Bay Park, San Diego, CA Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 3066	BPB Bay Park Buzzy Posted posted on Fri, Sep 12, 2008 4:32 PM Tiki Oasis 2008 Journal part 7: Saturday morning vending fun pt 2 The original plan was to be as follows: Wake up. Finish loading. Go to the hotel. Set up. Finish the drum. Change my clothes. Start selling stuff. Have a good, relaxing, day. Plans change. Once I started taking out and setting up the vintage stuff, it was go time from then on. I didn't even have time to blink for about the first three hours, much less change out of my dirty work clothes into my poolside attire. After the initial rush, things slowed down enough that I could periodically break away and try to actually finish that damn drum! Here's how the next couple hours of Oasis went for me: The drum was where we left off last chapter. It was about 90% dry by now and starting to sound real good. I still had to hide those nails in the recess with some rope, and then it would be all done. In this picture, you can see the rope in the background waiting for a break on the action so I could attend to it: People would say, "Nice drum! is it for sale?" I would have to say, "It still isn't finished yet and I need to change out of my work shirt." Tikiyaki checking it out. I had a spare second so I then grabbed the rope and placed the drum on an improvised work table to FINALLY GET IT DONE! And then I could change my shirt. I started wrapping and fastening the decorative rope... then I had to pause while I had a business meeting and filled my calendar for the next few weeks. I went back to it, determined to finish, but then GROG wandered by. GROG: "In the picture, it looks THIS big!" Buzzy: "It's actually bigger in real life: More like THIS!" GROG: "Wow! You are indeed, Mr Tiki." There was still a big piece of rope hanging off the drum, my dirty shirt was starting to stink, and I had to give a seminar on "How to Determine the Age of Your CocoJoe's Figurine" before I got back to it. Here I am demonstrating the "Peek at the back of the tag age determination technique." After the panel discussion portion of my seminar, I was able to tack the rest of the rope on to it. 4wd stopped by right as I was done and we snapped this photo for our memory albums: Then this German tourist guy stopped by and pestered me with and endless barrage of questions about Cocojoes. I told him I had a book in the works and all his questions would be answered in it. Then I told him that I'm not a library and if he's not going to buy the catalog, then he had to put it down. Then he bought a lava piece off me and said something about putting it in a book he was writing. Damn copycat! I secretly hoped that I wouldn't sell the drum so that i could take it home and play with it for a while. that thought held fast in my mind for the entire twelve minutes between when I finshed it and then sold it. The happy couple with their new drum that I never got to play: Here is the only picture that I have of it finished: I did actually get to bang on it two times, but the owner told me to stop because he didn't want me to mess it up. The head was about 97% dry and it was sounding real good Squid just happened to be walking by at that point, and him being a drummer, I said "Hey Squid, check out the drum." The guy was happy to let Squid bang on it, because he's such a tiki celebrity and all. It was fun watching Squid play the drum that I made and sold! I ended the morning's festivities with the annual Squid vs. Buzzy Tan Line Contest! The trophy stays on my mantle for one more year! Glad to see all that early base coat tanning I did last spring paid off! Next, I hope to take on Bigtikidude for the international Sock Tan Line Title. I feel good right now, but I know I'm not ready to make a run at that title yet. This year, I'm going to train hard and enter just to see what it will take to compete at that level, and eventualy try to win. It's a long road, but the rewards make the pursuit well worth it...If I win, that is... I never got to change my shirt. Oasis journal over 50% complete. Still more later, hopefully sooner than the later. TO 9 is on the horizon... Buzzy Out!

Tiki Oasis 2008 Journal part 7: Saturday morning vending fun pt 2

The original plan was to be as follows: Wake up. Finish loading. Go to the hotel. Set up. Finish the drum. Change my clothes. Start selling stuff. Have a good, relaxing, day.

Plans change. Once I started taking out and setting up the vintage stuff, it was go time from then on. I didn't even have time to blink for about the first three hours, much less change out of my dirty work clothes into my poolside attire. After the initial rush, things slowed down enough that I could periodically break away and try to actually finish that damn drum!

Here's how the next couple hours of Oasis went for me:

The drum was where we left off last chapter. It was about 90% dry by now and starting to sound real good. I still had to hide those nails in the recess with some rope, and then it would be all done. In this picture, you can see the rope in the background waiting for a break on the action so I could attend to it:

People would say, "Nice drum! is it for sale?" I would have to say, "It still isn't finished yet and I need to change out of my work shirt."

Tikiyaki checking it out. I had a spare second so I then grabbed the rope and placed the drum on an improvised work table to FINALLY GET IT DONE! And then I could change my shirt.

I started wrapping and fastening the decorative rope...

then I had to pause while I had a business meeting and filled my calendar for the next few weeks.

I went back to it, determined to finish, but then GROG wandered by.

GROG: "In the picture, it looks THIS big!"
Buzzy: "It's actually bigger in real life: More like THIS!"
GROG: "Wow! You are indeed, Mr Tiki."

There was still a big piece of rope hanging off the drum, my dirty shirt was starting to stink, and I had to give a seminar on "How to Determine the Age of Your CocoJoe's Figurine" before I got back to it.
Here I am demonstrating the "Peek at the back of the tag age determination technique."

After the panel discussion portion of my seminar, I was able to tack the rest of the rope on to it. 4wd stopped by right as I was done and we snapped this photo for our memory albums:

Then this German tourist guy stopped by and pestered me with and endless barrage of questions about Cocojoes. I told him I had a book in the works and all his questions would be answered in it. Then I told him that I'm not a library and if he's not going to buy the catalog, then he had to put it down. Then he bought a lava piece off me and said something about putting it in a book he was writing. Damn copycat!

I secretly hoped that I wouldn't sell the drum so that i could take it home and play with it for a while. that thought held fast in my mind for the entire twelve minutes between when I finshed it and then sold it.

The happy couple with their new drum that I never got to play:

Here is the only picture that I have of it finished:

I did actually get to bang on it two times, but the owner told me to stop because he didn't want me to mess it up.

The head was about 97% dry and it was sounding real good

Squid just happened to be walking by at that point, and him being a drummer, I said "Hey Squid, check out the drum."

The guy was happy to let Squid bang on it, because he's such a tiki celebrity and all. It was fun watching Squid play the drum that I made and sold!

I ended the morning's festivities with the annual Squid vs. Buzzy Tan Line Contest!

The trophy stays on my mantle for one more year! Glad to see all that early base coat tanning I did last spring paid off! Next, I hope to take on Bigtikidude for the international Sock Tan Line Title. I feel good right now, but I know I'm not ready to make a run at that title yet. This year, I'm going to train hard and enter just to see what it will take to compete at that level, and eventualy try to win. It's a long road, but the rewards make the pursuit well worth it...If I win, that is...

I never got to change my shirt.
Oasis journal over 50% complete. Still more later, hopefully sooner than the later. TO 9 is on the horizon...
Buzzy Out!

Post #407555 by Bay Park Buzzy on Fri, Sep 12, 2008 4:32 PM