It's Saturday so here's a song. I'm feeling very Blur-ish today.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Friday, September 9, 2011
Soccer from the sidelines
Instead of being Coach, I got to be dad tonight. I went to Olivia's soccer game and stood on the sidelines. I watched my girl try her best and have fun. It's so different from coaching Amelie's team. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love coaching. It's just different. I worry about making sure everybody gets enough playing time are more important I want to make sure all the kids are having fun. Tonight I got to kick back and enjoy.
Here's a little game action. Which one's Olivia? The tiny one wearing black with pigtail, that's O.
And the kiddos cheering on Olivia.......kinda......
And the kiddos cheering on Olivia.......kinda......
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
It's a sad day
It's been a horrible summer for the sport of hockey. It feels like you can't go more than a couple weeks without another tragic story. Today might be the worst tragedy of the summer.
If you don't follow hockey you may not have heard that a plane carrying the hockey team Lokomotiv of the Kontinental Hockey League crashed today in Russia, about 150 miles northeast of Moscow. The crash killed 43 people and left 2 critically injured. Only one member of the team survived. It's devastating for all the families of these players and coaches.
As a hockey fan I'm shocked. I see the names Pavol Demitra and Ruslan Salei listed as two of the deceased. That's crazy, I can't wrap my brain around it. It wasn't long ago I was screaming at Demitra from my seats at the United Center. Alexander G. Karpovtsev, an old Blackhawks defenseman. Josef Vasicek, he bounced around a bit but got to play a full year with the Islanders last year. Karlis Skrastins, not a household name but hockey fans know him as a Panthers or Stars defenseman. So many other players, coaches and trainers lost today.
All this coming on the heels of an already tragic summer for the NHL dealing with the deaths of Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien, and Wade Belak.
It's a sad day in the hockey world.
If you don't follow hockey you may not have heard that a plane carrying the hockey team Lokomotiv of the Kontinental Hockey League crashed today in Russia, about 150 miles northeast of Moscow. The crash killed 43 people and left 2 critically injured. Only one member of the team survived. It's devastating for all the families of these players and coaches.
As a hockey fan I'm shocked. I see the names Pavol Demitra and Ruslan Salei listed as two of the deceased. That's crazy, I can't wrap my brain around it. It wasn't long ago I was screaming at Demitra from my seats at the United Center. Alexander G. Karpovtsev, an old Blackhawks defenseman. Josef Vasicek, he bounced around a bit but got to play a full year with the Islanders last year. Karlis Skrastins, not a household name but hockey fans know him as a Panthers or Stars defenseman. So many other players, coaches and trainers lost today.
All this coming on the heels of an already tragic summer for the NHL dealing with the deaths of Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien, and Wade Belak.
It's a sad day in the hockey world.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
McFail
So I want to complain today. I almost never complain through this blog. Really, you can even check. So if I'm complaining then you know something has gotten under my skin a bit. And this will not count as my picture of the day since it's just a rant. What's bugging me today? Well its tied to one of my older blog posts. If you didn't read it go now and read it. Click on this McLink to the McPost
Basically, I had a bad experience at a McDonald's in Oak Brook, IL. That's McDonald's corporate headquarters. Not only was the food horrible but the service was even worse. I was disappointed. I said it should be better because of where it's located. I stand by my comments. That McDonald's should be an example for all McDonald's but it was far below average.
I don't want to get off point though. I already complained about the quality of that store. That's over and done. As I said in my last post I didn't expect McDonald's to care about my blog post. To my surprise I did receive a response. I was contacted by @Kty_McD through twitter. I know these twitter accounts are set up to troll for keywords and try to help customers with problems. Tweet long enough and you will have someone like this contact you.
So she asked me to follow her or direct message her. I followed her. Hey, she wanted to help so I figured why not. She direct messaged me later that day. You can see the messages below.
I was actually a bit excited. I thought it was cool that the store might get a little heat for being so crappy. I never expected to get a response from my blog post so it was cool knowing that something might happen. Well, that feeling was short lived. I waited for a response from @Kty_McD. A couple days past, then a week and finally two weeks. Nothing.
I have been officially forgotten or blown off or something. I didn't expect to get anything out of this but I sure would have loved a response. Something, anything. All @Kty_McD needed to do is send me a direct message saying she contacted the store and they are taking care of the problem. I would have been very happy. It irks me that she would reach out to try and help and then blow me off. It would've been better to have never even tried. A shitty attempt at I'm sorry is much worse than saying nothing at all.
To be fair I will say this. I have not tried to contact @Kty_McD since I messaged her the info. I shouldn't have to though. She, as a rep of McD's, contacted me. She asked for the info and said she wanted to help. I shouldn't have to bug her to remember that she did that. It kinda kills the whole "what can I do to help" vibe.
This doesn't bug me as much as it probably seems. I do feel like I was burned my McD's though. This was the first time I've interacted with a big business twitter account. I always avoid them or at the most made fun of them. So with this being the first time using one for it's intended purpose, I feel like I got burned. Lucky for me I have this fun little piece of the internet to tell all of you wonderful people how I feel. So yes, I get to complain and now I'm done. Thanks for reading and I promise all sunshine and rainbows for a while....and cheese balls, you saw how many I have, right?
UPDATE
So after posting this today @Kty_McD contacted me via twitter and apologized for not getting back to me. It happens, things fall through the cracks sometimes. She told me that she did forward the information to the store so that's good. That is the point of complaining, right? Hopefully that store will be more aware of how their employees act and the product that goes out. So that's it. McDone.
Basically, I had a bad experience at a McDonald's in Oak Brook, IL. That's McDonald's corporate headquarters. Not only was the food horrible but the service was even worse. I was disappointed. I said it should be better because of where it's located. I stand by my comments. That McDonald's should be an example for all McDonald's but it was far below average.
I don't want to get off point though. I already complained about the quality of that store. That's over and done. As I said in my last post I didn't expect McDonald's to care about my blog post. To my surprise I did receive a response. I was contacted by @Kty_McD through twitter. I know these twitter accounts are set up to troll for keywords and try to help customers with problems. Tweet long enough and you will have someone like this contact you.
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| Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you @Kty_McD |
I was actually a bit excited. I thought it was cool that the store might get a little heat for being so crappy. I never expected to get a response from my blog post so it was cool knowing that something might happen. Well, that feeling was short lived. I waited for a response from @Kty_McD. A couple days past, then a week and finally two weeks. Nothing.
I have been officially forgotten or blown off or something. I didn't expect to get anything out of this but I sure would have loved a response. Something, anything. All @Kty_McD needed to do is send me a direct message saying she contacted the store and they are taking care of the problem. I would have been very happy. It irks me that she would reach out to try and help and then blow me off. It would've been better to have never even tried. A shitty attempt at I'm sorry is much worse than saying nothing at all.
To be fair I will say this. I have not tried to contact @Kty_McD since I messaged her the info. I shouldn't have to though. She, as a rep of McD's, contacted me. She asked for the info and said she wanted to help. I shouldn't have to bug her to remember that she did that. It kinda kills the whole "what can I do to help" vibe.
This doesn't bug me as much as it probably seems. I do feel like I was burned my McD's though. This was the first time I've interacted with a big business twitter account. I always avoid them or at the most made fun of them. So with this being the first time using one for it's intended purpose, I feel like I got burned. Lucky for me I have this fun little piece of the internet to tell all of you wonderful people how I feel. So yes, I get to complain and now I'm done. Thanks for reading and I promise all sunshine and rainbows for a while....and cheese balls, you saw how many I have, right?
UPDATE
So after posting this today @Kty_McD contacted me via twitter and apologized for not getting back to me. It happens, things fall through the cracks sometimes. She told me that she did forward the information to the store so that's good. That is the point of complaining, right? Hopefully that store will be more aware of how their employees act and the product that goes out. So that's it. McDone.
Choco Taco Madness
I found 'em! I found 'em! Choco Tacos! I haven't seen a Choco Taco in years. Wow, what a find. So am I overreacting? Hell no! Choco Tacos are the pinnacle of all things sugar, dessert and pure goodness.
Monday, September 5, 2011
What did you do on Labor day?
Ok, the question has been asked. What did we all do today? I'm not sure about all of you but I can tell you what I did. I felt shame, so much shame. Such shame I wanted to crawl in a hole and hide but I couldn't. I wouldn't have fit in a hole carrying my barrel of cheese balls.
So.....I went grocery shopping. I got tons of good food for the week. Breakfast, lunch and dinner all taken care of. That's when I saw the massive container of the most horrible and wonderful thing in the universe, cheese balls. I haven't had a proper cheese ball in years. They kinda stopped selling them, at least around here. So when I saw them an internal struggle began. Do I get the cheese balls? It's been a long time but the container is big....really big......really really big. I made my decision, I was getting them but oh the shame. Having to walk over and pick up that monster called the barrel of cheese balls, I felt shame on top of shame. All I could think was, Who gets this??? The answer was ME! I tried to hide them in the cart but there was no hiding it. I quickly made my way to check out and got outta there as fast as I could. Even now I feel the terrible shame I have brought on my household having this in our house. But oh is it worth it for the cheesy goodness.
So.....I went grocery shopping. I got tons of good food for the week. Breakfast, lunch and dinner all taken care of. That's when I saw the massive container of the most horrible and wonderful thing in the universe, cheese balls. I haven't had a proper cheese ball in years. They kinda stopped selling them, at least around here. So when I saw them an internal struggle began. Do I get the cheese balls? It's been a long time but the container is big....really big......really really big. I made my decision, I was getting them but oh the shame. Having to walk over and pick up that monster called the barrel of cheese balls, I felt shame on top of shame. All I could think was, Who gets this??? The answer was ME! I tried to hide them in the cart but there was no hiding it. I quickly made my way to check out and got outta there as fast as I could. Even now I feel the terrible shame I have brought on my household having this in our house. But oh is it worth it for the cheesy goodness.
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