Remember how we (Mike, Sam, Heidi, Silvia) told you yesterday about the tour guide we met at Fenway yesterday? Well I just realized I forgot a great line he told us. This is how it went down.
For this monologue:
Old man = Bob
Mike Sam Heidi Silvia = MSHS
Bob: How you folks doing today?
MSHS: Great! How are you?
Bob: Doing fine, you guys need to get somewhere?
MSHS: Nope, just sitting on the steps waiting for the next tour.
Narrator: This part I can't remember the exact dialogue, but Bob, mentioned something about going somewhere he didn't want to; then asked us another question
Bob: So where you guys from?
MSHS: (said with a California accent) California
Now for the money line
Bob: (gasping as he commented) Oh man!! I guess we all have problems! (old man chuckle)
There you go. I just wanted to make sure you got the full experience of our encounter with Bob. If you ever get a chance to tour Fenway Park, make sure you ask for Bob. Although, now that I think about it you can't request Bob because that is not his name. Sorry, I guess you'll just have to sit on the steps across from Fenway and hope his car is parked in front of you!
Monday, June 2, 2008
Old Man @ Fenway
Boston Day 3 intro
Hey y'all. I am giving you a peek into what our day was like today. Sam will be coming to you tomorrow from WWofM with an in dept analysis for our Tuesday at NACCAP.
NACCAP @ Gordon
1. Went to 3 sessions which inspired me to blog, blog, blog!
2. Ate lunch
3. Got jealous that my roommate (Jim from Whitworth in Spokane, WA) is going to a Red Sox's game on Wednesday when we are flying home
4. Ate dinner and laughed
5. Got even more jealous when I found out half of the people here are going to Red Sox's games later this week!
6. Went to Club`e NACCAP`e (you will understand when Sam explains) and watched funny videos
7. Ran about 3/4 mile through Gordon's campus
8. Wrote a teaser for Sam's blog entry tomorrow
So you all must come back tomorrow (or later today) to read Sam's full description of day 3 in Boston. Sam is pretty excited so you can bet it is going to be amazing!!
Until then, stay classy California!
I love Google
I am trying google analytics going on my page so I can track how people are finding me...not sure if it is working yet, but if you have tips let me know.
Thanks
Wordpress + Domain name
Hello fellow bloggers. I just got out of a couple sessions at the conference I am at that dealt with technology in recruiting. One of the big focuses was the use of blogging. Tim Cox is the media coordinator at Biola University and Palm Beach Atlantic U, and presented on what he has done to implement blogs, social networking and media sharing into admissions. This has got me thinking about my own blog and what I can do to improve it. Tim really pushed the idea of moving to a web host so you can publish all types of content and have your own domain name. It got me thinking about doing a trial run with my own blog.
This brings me to the question of doing it. Tim suggested site5.com as a good web host. For those of you who have a web host, what do you think? Also, I would need a domain name. So I am opening it up to all of you to submit domain names. I am thinking I will take the top 4-5 and have a poll to decide what to use and the winner might even get a prize!
FYI, I am also interested in any and all tips you have because I am not exactly what you would call a web genius.
I look forward to your responses.
ps. On a side note, what are your thoughts on wordpress compared to blogger?
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Boston Day 2
Well the night ended very late last night and we did not really sleep well because we were still kinda on west coast time. But here are the details from Sunday in Boston. If you don't want to read the whole thing make sure you at least read numbers 2/3 under 'We need to tour Fenway!'
Enjoy!
Getting up at Gordon:
1. The plan was to leave the campus around 9am and go to a world famous steakhouse called, Hilltop Steakhouse. Then go to Logan Airport to pick up Silvia. I got a call around 8:30am from Sam asking, "would you want to skip breakfast and just leave at 10:45am to pick up Silvia?" My reply was a quick, "absolutely" because we were dog tired.
2. We finally started our day and headed to Logan Airport. We made it without much a problem; that was the end of our travel without issues.
On to save Heidi's cell phone
1. Next step was to travel to the Prudential Center to pick up Heidi's cell phone from the Sky Walk. I knew we wanted to go south on one of the freeways, but that was easier said then done. Make a long story short, we started to head into Cambridge, but ended up taking the U-turn back to Boston. We finally made it to the Prudential Center and got Heidi's cell phone. Did I say thanks Bostonians? Well thanks!
2. Our next step was to make our way to Fenway Park to tour. We took the T down there and made it pretty easily. We decided that since we were at Fenway we had to eat at the Bleacher Bar in center field. We sat and watched Fenway in all its glory as we ate. Pretty sweet! Check out the pictures in my previous post.
We need to tour Fenway!
1. We finished eating and looked at our watches. The time read 1:55pm. I know the tours started on the hour so we rushed up and around the corner to the team store to get our tickets. We arrived at 2:03pm and missed the 2'o clock tour. That ended up being a big mistake. See number 2.
2. We ended up buying tickets for the 3'o clock tour and then proceeded to sit on the steps outside store. An old man came walking down the street to get in his car that was right in front of us. He asked us if we needed to get somewhere and we told him we were just waiting for the next tour. This is why it was a mistake missing the 2pm tour. The old man was a tour guide for Fenway and had a 2004 Red Sox's world series ring. We looked in amazement and Sam took a picture. The old man responded, "This thing is really a chick magnet!" We laughed and still looked in amazement. He then told us a story about the ring and its powers. He was on a tour and towards the end a younger woman pulled him aside and asked, "What do I have to do for that ring?" The old man replied, "What are you willing to do?" The young lady responded, "ANYTHING". He told us this with a devilish grin. He said he felt he needed to get out of there ASAP because he could get fired!
3. We really enjoyed the short lived company of this old man. He then went to get into his dinged/scratched/dirty 2001 Honda Civic. He started the car, put the transmission in reverse and started backing up. Mind you, his head was faced forward the whole time and there was a car about 3 feet behind him. He did knock into that car and just looked over at us with a 'OH WELL' and drove off! It was pretty amazing; we laughed as left us.
Heading back to Gordon College
1. We made it back to the parking garage and yes I had rolled up the window this time. We had got our parking ticket validated earlier that day, but the validation expired at 5:00pm. We got to the pay booth at 5:11pm and the lady made sure we knew we were late. We were pissed and paid the $34 for 5 hours of parking!
2. We left the garage and were on our way. Of course we went the wrong way, but we got to see another side of Boston we didn't expect to see. We did make it back to Gordon where the NACCAP festivities started.
Eating lunch at Fenway
