RAMBLE ON ROSE
Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter
Have not rambled for a while…just feel the need, so...
Strap in, keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times and remember, it can be a dark and scary ride through the brains of Bond and his Couch...
Flew in yesterday and went over to the marketing company holding the focus groups...
They began at 6:30 and we had the laptop set to mlb.com so we could keep track of the Yankees/Indians game on their gameday.
It is an illustrated representation of what happens in the game, showing each pitch, speed of pitch, how much the pitch broke and the result of the pitch; ball, strike, foul, hit. Pretty coo technology.
One of the regional managers took a position on the third tier of seats to look over my shoulder and watch.
Focus groups (2 of them) went well. First was with people who do not use Terminix and second was with current customers. Learned some interesting things about how they looked at the creative pieces we help to design.
Got back to hotel room for last three innings… alas…it is over for the pinstripes…
Not wearing black today…lol
The owner said on Sunday if the team did not win the series Joe Torre was gone. Dumb thing to say, the team started off 27-21 and finished with the best record in the American League from that point on. Torre probably did his best job as a manager this season.
If he goes, there is a good change the best reliever in baseball in the post season Mo Riviera will not re-sign ads probably Jorge Posada, who had his best year ever will also go. These guys love Torre.
Alas…an era in Yankee baseball might be ending as a new era begins with a youth movement not seen on this team since the Boss took over,
We hate wearing socks with loafers or boat shoes, but when having to go through security at the airport, we hate the thought of walking on those floors barefoot even more...
We do not wear cologne, but recently began putting Johnsons Baby Powder on after our shower and like the feel and the scent and have been told some women like it also…
Do you like anchovies in your Caesar Salad? We find them yummmmmmmmmmmmo!
Have not heard from our friend and are still hoping they are ready to resume our friendship.
Ate too much crap at the focus group. They always have all these snacks out for those who watch from behind the mirror…went to the right for the candy and the Philly pretzels and not to the left for the veggies and dip….another sigh….
If you missed it, DAD wrote a comment on the post we had up last week thanking you all for your wishes….and he received a package with some books from a special guy in NYC…he truly appreciated it all…
He is on a flight home on Thursday and says he is feeling just great. Big WOOOOOO for that!
It will only mean you might get even more ramblings…LOL we can hear you all yelling right now…STAY AT THE HOTEL!
Why is it that every airport in Florida offers free wireless access and in every other airport you have to purchase a 24-hour service? OK, like who the frick stays in an airport for 24-hours??????
Sure we can buy a service, but we do not travel enough at this time to warrant it. If we were doing the 130,000+ miles a year like we used to back in the 90’s, well hell yeah we would have a service.
And why do some airports, like the one we are in now, have so few outlets to plug your laptop into?
And why do people feel they have to take up every outlet with their computer and their cell phone and their blackberry chargers? It becomes first come first serve and even when they see you looking they turn their head and ignore you…like the clown next to me who has 3 of the 4 available outlets taken up. We had to get on the floor and crawl under a seat to get the one left and there is this other poor sap who keeps roaming round and round and round…
In two seating areas there are 4 total outlets… HEY AIRPORT PEOPLE…your travelers’ need more outlets…get with it will ya?
Wait, did you answer us???? Didjamissus? OH ok, guess ya did!
OK, we are going to stop this ramble now…ummmm...maybe...
Maybe we are not….hehehehe…traveled recently? Tired of those announcements that begin “The Security level has been changed to Orange…”
Ummm it has been Orange for at least two, if not three years now… Are these messages intended to scare the people who never travel? Because they only sound silly to someone who travels often.
We moved from the outlet since we were not using it and wanted someone else to have access. Just watched some uptight business man…so…funny…he is walking with laptop in hand…obviously needs an outlet. Spots the one we were using…tried to lean over the chairs to get to it…NOPE…goes down on one knee and tries to reach…NOPE…stares...realizes …YUP ya gotten get down on yer belly if ya really want it…gets up…walks away….guess he really didn’t want it…
Yeah...they called the flight, we boarded and they pulled from the gate...THEN, they tell us there are 'weather problems' ... ummm no...we know Philly Airport...too many frickin' flights, not enough runways and we sat for two hours and never got home until after 10, so we missed Doc and the crappy show... but we hear our
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George Washington
