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Welcome to the Show

We spent the weekend at the Show. No not the major leagues. The Gem Show.

The Gem Show is where we get the crystals and gems that are a big part of our inventory these days. It comes around twice or three times a year and we go to put in orders and make contacts and what not. It is a lot like the clothing shows we used to go to but with a lot less pressure. Less hard salesmanship. A much more enjoyable expedience all around.

You see you have to learn the properties and the worth of the various things you buy. As always you want to buy low and sell high. Business is pretty much all the same. Of course the people you deal with a little different. Instead of hard bitten hebes from the garment center you are dealing with guys like this:

Very New-agey hipster if you know  what I mean. If the Crack Emcee were still alive and reading this he would lose his shit about New Age and what not. It's all a game like everything else. So you have to roll with the punches and go with the flow. I have a lot more patience these days with nonsense so I let them do their spiel and not sweat the details.

The gems and crystals themselves are very beautiful. One in particular was my all time favorite:

Now the price put it out of reach. Thats the retail price. The wholesale price is half that. None the less we are getting stuff in the $20 range that we can easily resell. Still and all I really love this crystal.  You get surprisingly into it the more you learn about it.

We had a good time and the wife really enjoyed herself. I had fun too and it was time well spent. The best of all was when I found Sixty's birthstone: