There are a good number of hair salons in and around my town. Among the ones I pass more often are:
1. Sweeny Todd Hair (I kid you not, and it's billed as a "Family Hair Salon.")
2. Flash For Hair (which now shares the building with "Wags To Riches" pet grooming)
3. Hair Flair (whose sign consists of the name and phone number of the place in plain black type with absolutely no adornment... and basically zero flair)
4. Liquid Hair Salon (in case you wanted your hair liquefied? Their website is impressive. Trendy and stylish to an almost scary degree for a salon located on a highway in the suburbs. For all that, they could really use a copy editor.)
Almost makes me glad to be bald.
In other news, I decided to go ahead with the smile card experiment, redesigned based on![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
synecdochic's suggestions. I think it could be cool. So I got a pack of business card stock, designed the cards (front and back), did a couple of test prints (on the cheap paper provided for the purpose), fixed the margins, put in the real thing, hit print, and... ink ran out. Went to get more ink, and... printer died. Dead. As in "you'll have to replace the motherboard" dead. Just like that, after three years of solid performance. Think the universe is trying to tell me something?
So we're getting a new printer. Same line, new model. Canon, it turns out, has a "loyalty program." If your printer or whatever dies, they'll give you 10-20% off a new one (from a small pool of new and refurbished models) and free overnight shipping. They've also got a good support team, with a call center that's actually based in the US. But... they also recently came out with a new new model in the same line. Some small improvements. Nothing major, as far as I can tell. Which means that stores are trying to get rid of their leftover stock of the previous model. So I got one of those for half off (with free shipping - standard shipping, too, thanks to Amazon's current promotion). Should be here in a couple of days.
1. Sweeny Todd Hair (I kid you not, and it's billed as a "Family Hair Salon.")
2. Flash For Hair (which now shares the building with "Wags To Riches" pet grooming)
3. Hair Flair (whose sign consists of the name and phone number of the place in plain black type with absolutely no adornment... and basically zero flair)
4. Liquid Hair Salon (in case you wanted your hair liquefied? Their website is impressive. Trendy and stylish to an almost scary degree for a salon located on a highway in the suburbs. For all that, they could really use a copy editor.)
Almost makes me glad to be bald.
In other news, I decided to go ahead with the smile card experiment, redesigned based on
synecdochic's suggestions. I think it could be cool. So I got a pack of business card stock, designed the cards (front and back), did a couple of test prints (on the cheap paper provided for the purpose), fixed the margins, put in the real thing, hit print, and... ink ran out. Went to get more ink, and... printer died. Dead. As in "you'll have to replace the motherboard" dead. Just like that, after three years of solid performance. Think the universe is trying to tell me something?So we're getting a new printer. Same line, new model. Canon, it turns out, has a "loyalty program." If your printer or whatever dies, they'll give you 10-20% off a new one (from a small pool of new and refurbished models) and free overnight shipping. They've also got a good support team, with a call center that's actually based in the US. But... they also recently came out with a new new model in the same line. Some small improvements. Nothing major, as far as I can tell. Which means that stores are trying to get rid of their leftover stock of the previous model. So I got one of those for half off (with free shipping - standard shipping, too, thanks to Amazon's current promotion). Should be here in a couple of days.
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And WTG, Canon - how cool of them. :D
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Hope the new printer proves itself to be a good buy. :)
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Printer... we shall see. I was expecting it to have arrived by this past Friday (based on the "2-3 day shipping" claim), but for all that it left on time the current estimate is for it to arrive Tuesday, a week after I placed the order. Their idea of 3 days would appear to be somewhat different from mine...
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Meh. :( At least it's free shipping!