Nor Cal AO Day: pics and stuff (56 k'ers beware)

[Steelrat]

That is SO what I pictured when I first saw the "jig break"

[ZAust]

that is really a culmination of all my limited photoshop skills... im sure that sps could do a better one. lets see... the original pic can be found here. the pic is about halfway down the page. and yes, im a big babylon 5 fan, much to the ridicule of my friends. i would buy the dvds, but i really cant afford em a 80 bucks a season, so i just get em on netflix. i cant wait for the season 3, imo the best season to come out in august.

[Steelrat]

I had season 1, and I just picked up season 2 on DVD. If you wanna borrow em let me know.

[ZAust]

sweet. its cool to meet another b5 fan. hey, what about that tournament steel. can you make it?

[Aegis]

Does that make Zman "lord of the break"?

[Carbon]

I can hear fiddles, mandolins, violins and the RT yammering away as Z-man tap dances his way to the back standup. "I am the Lord Of The Break...shudder at my crazy feets and RT Thunder HA HA HA!...." or some thing like that.

[Steelrat]

I am in for the tourney, but keep in mind my lack of experience. We'll win the sympathy vote for sure ("Look at the big lumbering moron. Lets give that team an award just for letting him play.")

[sps16]

lol, i'm good to go too. I got off work for aug 3.


*Notice*
Everyone who knows the Ace Hardware in Walnut Creek, I work there and the owner is going to start carrying paintball stuff and do air fills.

[Steelrat]

Do I hear discout????

Seriously, the one in Stockton has good prices on some stuff. I mean, Big ball for 29.99? That seems pretty darn good...

[Steelrat]

Oh, also tell him there is a right way and a wrong way to do it.

Wrong way: Carry crappy stuff, overcharge, put non-knowledgeable people staffing it, let the area get messy and disorganized

Right way: Carry decent-good stuff (The one in Stockton has angel speeds and e-blades, doesnt need to be that good, but it doesnt hurt), keep prices reasonable (a good "hook" helps, like cheap paintballs, keeps people coming in, and then they buy the other stuff, like me getting my Redz pack system today when buying paint DOAH!)Good staff (that would be, lets see here, ahhh, YOU) Keep it clean (Like Delta, minus the arrogant staff).

And he'd be a great sponsor for any team you may join/form.

[Z-man]

Originally posted by Steeratt
I am in for the tourney, but keep in mind my lack of experience. We'll win the sympathy vote for sure ("Look at the big lumbering moron. Lets give that team an award just for letting him play.")

hehe I can do that. Course you all know my tactic; dazzel them with my fancy footwork and you shoot em!

Hey Carbon! (and any of the rest of you who want to). You should pop by my house sometime. We got some land and a nice little workshop and we can practice/ work on hardware and stuff. Check your pm box. All are welcome and remember that I play and work at T.A.G. every weekend so you all are welcome to show up and see if you like T.A.G. (as you know, I'll come after you all if it's not the place oft he next AO day

[ZAust]

yknow, i was thinking we should have the next ao day at operation paintball in hayward. thanks for the offer z-man, but i cant head down to carmel every day. chris and i will definaytely play at tag the net time we go. do they have a website. also, i would definately expect the DUR discount! chris and i definately have some good ideas for the paintball area at ace, who better to run a paintball store than customers who have been burned by other, crappy stores. although, now that i think about it, i cant really think where they would put the paintball stuff, that ace is pretty damn crowded.

[O_o]

o wtf ? Quality balls at $30 a case locally and I never knew ? Need more info, how would I go about getting these special "discounts" ?

[sps16]

Yea, what their going to try is paintballs and air fills (CO2 and hopefully compressed air ) As of now i'm the most knowledgable worker with paintball stuff. I'm the consultant for the paintball stuff. He said he would start with a 4 ft area of shelf and go from there.
The way ace gets most of their products is from Ace Corp. There is a section in the Ace Corp catalog that is paintball stuff. Its mainly crap, like brass eagle paint, v-loader paint, talons, sabers, jt excelletor (note* i can't spell). The only decent item that they carry is 12v revy w/ xboards. I'm going to campaign for him to order from an Independent vendor, just like the Stockton Ace. I'm going there tomorrow to check out their stock. Does anyone know where they get their paintball products? Independent vendor?
-Chris

[sps16]

Oh yes, discounts for AO'ers! Just ask for chrispy when you come in. Although we won't have paintball stuff for a week or two.