Gerald Ford

Gerald Ford's passing today reminded me of this SNL clip from more than 10 years ago. It's one of my favs.

Snow

It's here.

Nancy doesn't want to hear it, but I was ready and pumped for a little snow just in time for Christmas. Most of the time, I hate snow just because it's sometimes associated with temperatures well below zero. We're not dealing with that - so this is perfect. I spoke with a guy in Denver today, and he was at work for 36 hours straight. I guess that's what happens there when you get 2 feet of snow. Be thankful that's no where in sight around here. Yet, at least.

The only other thing I hate with this ice/snow mix - scraping my car. I'll tackle that wretched task soon. Merry Christmas blogosphere.

Yes! We did it!

Seriously, what's the point of this?

Last night, TCU trounced Northern Illinois in the historic San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl. Did you miss it?

Shame on you, are you going to miss the rest of the 32 other bowl games this year? Oh wait, I am. I have to ask - what the hell are these players celebrating for? Only 29,709 people even came to the game! Hell that's less than any of the home games for the Gophers last season. Think about it, that's really saying something!

Instead of playing these stupid games, why doesn't someone just ask some preschoolers to create art projects and hand em out as trophies. I'm sure Glen Mason would love to be able to hang the pretty projects in his office. At least that's genuine.

Goooooooal

Two goals
One assist

On to the championship ...

Now back to the day job.

Feedback

Like most of us can say, the job is fun sometimes, and the job sucks sometimes. Though it was a tumultuous year job-wise, I'm pretty happy with my current gig. I'm appreciated at work, my co-workers are fun and good natured, and I'm given plenty of opportunities to learn more about web design and HTML. My company is growing as well and I feel I'll be in a great position to move around when the time comes that I feel ready for a move.

Yet with all the positivity, my project with has been tough. It was rushed, initial expectations were too high, NBC was too demanding, and most of the people I work with regularly at TV stations across the country didn't see the full advantages of taking part. They didn't return calls, they were slow in general to respond to anything I tried to do with them, and people questioned my intentions. It's now been a few months, I have more help by my side, I have learned a ton about how to market this deal in better ways, and some of my ideas are being implemented slowly but surely. I still had little idea how a lot of the people I work with regularly feel about this thing and the constant communication I have with them. I decided to survey them. The results are still coming, but the feedback so far has been very positive and appreciative. Maybe everyone is just trying to be nice. Who knows, but at least they make it sound like they like working with me.

The project in general is still a work in progress. Yet I'm starting to feel like better days are ahead - about one month ago, I wasn't quite so sure about that.

Malls

Maybe I'll take up mountain climbing. At least fake mountain climbing. A rather nondescript Sunday inspired Nancy and I to head to REI to climb a 55-foot rock-like rubber wall. Last time I even can remember climbing anything like this was a Beta leadership dealy back in 2002, it was -5 outside, and a few guys fell on their face. Needless to say, the climate made this attempt much easier. It was awesome to feel a little rush of adrenaline again, so hopefully I'll head back soon.

In other news, my X-mas shopping is almost done. This year's experience proves yet again that the older I get, the more I hate shopping malls. After seeing the emotionless faces of most the 30, 40, and 50 year old men at MOA on Sunday who were shadowing their wives or trying to control their kids, I really hope I don't dread driving the family to the mall quite that much in a decade or so. I'm sure they'd just much rather be doing things like watching football. I get enough of that every day at work.