I complete forgot about our blog...will do a better job of contributing.
Here's something interesting for you:
www.yourfonts.com
It's a website that will make a font for you out of your handwriting. I tried it myself and it's very simple to use. Just print out the template, fill in the boxes, scan and upload. Then you can install the font to your computer - also very simple - and use it in any application.
Not sure what to use it for yet, but it has a lot of potential.
And just a note - anytime you use your font and send the doc to someone else, you need to pdf it so they can read it, since your awesome, new font is only installed on your computer and not theirs.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Noah's Bagels
Yo...I have no idea why my name is "SC's in Gensler", but hi...it's Lauri.
I'm sure we've all ordered or purchased a fair amount from Noah's in the past...I mean it's Noah's....decent food and good prices, nearby, all that.
I ordered about $250 worth of food from them last Friday for the Upside of the Downturn event. I requested a 7:30 delivery time for a meeting that was to begin at 8:00 with some big time clients and hopefully clients to be... We just wanted some simple food...bagels, pastry and more importantly perhaps, for a crowd of 40 people, lots and lots of coffee. We know how hard it is to keep that many people caffeinated!
I called the afternoon before like a good, pro-active Coordinator and everything was a go.
Friday morning at 7:35 I decided it certainly wasn't time yet to panic. At 7:40 I could hold out no longer and gave them a ring. "Your order is on it's way". Okay, no problem...give 'em 10 minutes. It wouldn't take much in teh way of setting it up once it arrived.
At 7:50 I called again. "Let me check, yes he's on his way". "Can you contact them to make sure?!??!". "Yes, yes, he's on his way, he'll be there any second".
People started arriving early as they do and I put out a couple pots of coffee that were gone in 30.6 seconds. Sometime before 8:15 I called again and got the manager on the line. He assured me, again, that it was on it's way. Given that we are what, 6 blocks from them (?) I explained that having been told that for the last 35 minutes surely something has gone awry. He said he would call back immediately. 10 minutes later (immediately?) he said he didn't know what the problem had been, but it was, really, TRULY, on its way.
At this time the only saving grace had been that I had ordered food from Epplers bakery for our joint Workplace studio meeting that while it was due to arrive between 8:30 and 9:00, had arrived at 8:10... I quickly surmised that this was to be the new food for the Upside event and put it out as quickly as I could. It was essentially the same thing but with a "lessor" pastry and NO coffee. So I ran with it and just kept making coffee and watched as no one at any food (of course!).
Noah's finally arrived at 8:40, entirely too late, and we weren't charged for it. The manager was horrified, I'll give him that...but as I explained to him the worst part was that it was painfully clear that I had been LIED to several times about it being on its way. I suggested that it would have been much more productive to just admit fault and let me know I had to make another plan.
In the end, as always at Gensler, the food was eaten...but I would just use caution from now on I suppose.
P.S. Epplers was pretty great!
I'm sure we've all ordered or purchased a fair amount from Noah's in the past...I mean it's Noah's....decent food and good prices, nearby, all that.
I ordered about $250 worth of food from them last Friday for the Upside of the Downturn event. I requested a 7:30 delivery time for a meeting that was to begin at 8:00 with some big time clients and hopefully clients to be... We just wanted some simple food...bagels, pastry and more importantly perhaps, for a crowd of 40 people, lots and lots of coffee. We know how hard it is to keep that many people caffeinated!
I called the afternoon before like a good, pro-active Coordinator and everything was a go.
Friday morning at 7:35 I decided it certainly wasn't time yet to panic. At 7:40 I could hold out no longer and gave them a ring. "Your order is on it's way". Okay, no problem...give 'em 10 minutes. It wouldn't take much in teh way of setting it up once it arrived.
At 7:50 I called again. "Let me check, yes he's on his way". "Can you contact them to make sure?!??!". "Yes, yes, he's on his way, he'll be there any second".
People started arriving early as they do and I put out a couple pots of coffee that were gone in 30.6 seconds. Sometime before 8:15 I called again and got the manager on the line. He assured me, again, that it was on it's way. Given that we are what, 6 blocks from them (?) I explained that having been told that for the last 35 minutes surely something has gone awry. He said he would call back immediately. 10 minutes later (immediately?) he said he didn't know what the problem had been, but it was, really, TRULY, on its way.
At this time the only saving grace had been that I had ordered food from Epplers bakery for our joint Workplace studio meeting that while it was due to arrive between 8:30 and 9:00, had arrived at 8:10... I quickly surmised that this was to be the new food for the Upside event and put it out as quickly as I could. It was essentially the same thing but with a "lessor" pastry and NO coffee. So I ran with it and just kept making coffee and watched as no one at any food (of course!).
Noah's finally arrived at 8:40, entirely too late, and we weren't charged for it. The manager was horrified, I'll give him that...but as I explained to him the worst part was that it was painfully clear that I had been LIED to several times about it being on its way. I suggested that it would have been much more productive to just admit fault and let me know I had to make another plan.
In the end, as always at Gensler, the food was eaten...but I would just use caution from now on I suppose.
P.S. Epplers was pretty great!
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