Well, that's much better!

Today was a long day at Maryland Sheep and Wool. Mind you, I'm not whining.

The weather loomed grey and a bit foggy. It took until about 11:30 before the sun finally started burning through. Once it did, the weather only improved. The afternoon was gorgeous, but not hot, nor too windy.

The demo seemed to go astoundingly well. The location was El Primo. People sprawled out of the tent onto grass and patio around it. Lots and lots of people came, saw, tried, hung out, got to learn all kinds of neat stuff. It was crowded, and in a good way.

Commerce proceeded at a fine pace. We wrote lots of sales slips. There was little in the way of "down time". The only wrinkle was that we had to run the credit card machine in offline mode.

We got home, having picked up the calzones we called ahead for, and got real food in our bellies. The next order of business was to get the credit card transactions uploaded. I called tech support just to make sure I didn't mess anything up. When I started the upload, I was astonished when it *didn't* dial the phone, but simply said "transmitting" and "receiving" and printing out approvals. It was doing something I had *never* seen it do before: uploading via radio. Yes, the radio that "didn't work". I guess someone really lit a fire under the data service provider to get it straightened out. Yay! I also got a couple of nagging little issues squared away with the machine. Right now, it seems to be fully in order. Yay! I say again Yay!

It's now bed time, but I need to cut some more dowels first. Down to the shop with me!

Oh, and sales were quite fine, and our share of them was very nice.