Tag: sports

So Nervous

OK, I know I don’t write here as often as I should but I needed to post this before the game today.

Steelers @ Broncos. We need to win! I’m so nervous. Been nervous since Wednesday!!

Anyway, if we lose today, I may just have to call in sick to work tomorrow!

Ok, time to get ready to go to the bar. I’ll post after the event since maybe all of you don’t follow the NFL.

LET’S GO STEELERS!

Coyotes!

In case you guys didn’t check my other site…

The Coyotes have been pissing me off because they charged me a price for season tickets that was not correct. Originally, right after the lockout, it was the correct price. But, once they decided to lower the prices, I was called and told that I would be getting a discount. Long story short, I have been playing phone tag with the Coyotes for the past few months trying to get my refund!

(ok, the long story will not be short)

After talking to voice mail boxes all last week, I finally wised up and called the main Coyotes number. I asked the very nice secretary to please let me speak to someone who was in the office that could answer my questions regarding my season ticket order. I was put on hold for about 5 mins (thought she was going to transfer me to a vm box again) and surprisingly, she came back on and said, “I’m transferring you to Anthony now, please hold.” To my surprise, a real person answered!! So I kindly asked this guy to check out my account and see if there was anything wrong with it. Almost instantaneously he recognized that I had not received my refund! He said, “Mr. Almaraz, I don’t see the refund that should be on this account. This is troubling because you’ve had this account since the end of July. Let me go ahead and run this credit through for you right now.” Wow! Such service after weeks and hours of frustration! I hardly expected to see the refund within the week but come Saturday night, there it was, sitting on my account when I checked on-line! Amazing!

Now all I’m waiting for is my tickets to arrive. For some ODD reason they are printing them up in Canada and they will be shipped from there via UPS. Keeping my fingers crossed that they arrive before the beginning of the season in October. You know how lazy those Canadians can be!!! ;o)

A 4 Day Week!

I am sooooo glad this is a 4 day week. Tomorrow our project goes into production… not going to be good… very scary. Supposedly we’re going to start with the smallest part of the carrier and work our way up… but we’ll see. I’m just not looking forward to troubleshooting all the issues that may (will) make themselves known once we go live with this… I guess this will be the end of “boring” work weeks?

Anyway, the baseball game last night was pathetic… hardly anyone was there, it was super hot, and the time seemed to drag on forever! I seriously don’t know why I do it anymore… oh yeah, $9.50 an hour to do shit…

And I didn’t post yesterday, so here’s what happened yesterday…

Got up early to wash and wax my car… figured I’d better get up and do it before it got too hot out. So I was up and outside by 7am, and what do I notice… I have a flat tire… WTF?? I seriously only drove to Target on Sunday and the car has been sitting in the driveway since then… Turns out there was a Phillips head screw in the tire. I had to call around to about 8 different places before I found one that was open on the Holiday. Then I spent about an hour or so waiting to get it fixed… Then I got home and waxed my car… (I had washed it before I went to get the tire fixed because nothing opened until 8am or so anyway). After I got done waxing the car, I only had about 2 hours before I had to be down at the ballpark for work… So, my 3 day weekend turned into a 1 day weekend… not fun.

ok, that’s enough for one post. I’ve bored you enough! :)

Friends and things…

Ok, so don’t you hate it when you’re mad at someone but before you can tell them so they tell you something that would make you look like a jerk if you were mad at them at that moment???

So, I went to Troy today after work with my best friend. She’s the kind of person who hates it when you’re late but it’s ok if she shows up late… that sort of thing, so it’s sort of expected that she will not show up when she says if we’re not driving someplace together. Anyway, the movie started at 5.30 and she was a no show until 5.50… really pissed me off since i drove from extreme north scottsdale all the way to downtown phoenix in about 40 mins and was at the theater at 5pm as it was agreed. Anyway, so i was mad about that and I figured I would say something about it… but before I could do so, she throws out the information that Microsoft has finally got all their shit together and she’ll be moving to Seattle a week from Friday! Holy crap! I swear, i knew it was going to happen, but I figured it’d be the middle of June or something, at least. Never expected it so soon! So yeah, couldn’t so much mention the whole late issue (mostly because I forgot about it!). Oh well, I guess there is no amount of preparation you can have for a friend moving away… makes me very sad… oh well… just means i’ll have to plan many vacations to the Seattle area.

A few more closing notes… Randy Johnson pitched a perfect game tonight (SWEET!) Maybe this will get the team fired up?? Who knows, because we were just swept by the damn Expos! And it’s FREAKING HOT here, way to early in the summer for 101+ temps! AHHH! Ok, that’s all for now… still fighting this cold, so staying up is not conducive to getting better.