Asian Snow Peas and Inconsistencies

When she opened the fortune cookie that Wednesday night over a plate of chow mein and broccoli, the fine print read, "You outdistance all competitors." Well. If that was true, then why did the circumstances seem to place efforts in vain? Perhaps it is the way of things ...that environmental factors push you to places you didn't think you'd like and yet, it all has a way of working itself out. Perhaps confidence was all she needed.

Music Video: See Vesper Rock!

We just recently had a Marketing "offsite", which included different teams posing as musicians in a "Battle of the Bands"...If you want to see this funny music video, check the link below and click on the first video for the musicians (Technology Blitz), ContraBand. ContraBand Rocks!

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From: Thai, Doan
Subject: RE: Rally Winners and Q3 Goals

And here is this week's hotseat...

Read it quick before my team kills me for posting this! (must have Flash and speakers)
http://marketinghotseat.blogspot.com/2008/06/q3-marketing-rally-customer-and.html

ContraBand

Last week, our Customer & Solutions group had an offsite out of the office and we always choose a fun theme. This year, each team competed in a Battle of the Bands. We performed the "Ruff Ryders Theme" by DMX as ContraBand. Fun play on words, isn't it? I owe all cleverness to Lindsey. But I have to say, the golden cup of glory was stolen from us by a competing team called Mickey Moose. Enough, said. We definitely were the real winners. When I get video of us performing, I will definitely share that file!

Tennis & Hulabaloo at The Office

Lots to do. Lots to do. So little time to do it in. I skipped lunch so I'd have enough time to go home and relax perhaps before tennis practice today. No can do. Our event is on Wednesday (two-day reseller/customer event) and I have to still create a flight manifest for all our arriving customers, make an evaluation and print copies for our event, scan any correspondence from our vendors to ensure there are no catastrophies I can avoid before the trip, etc. Sometimes I wish my manager would step in a little, but then again, I want this. I want to do the managing of this new campaign on my own (This marketing jargon may have you wimpering at your home computer --why, oh why must she use those terms -- what on Earth is she talking about?!) . What I hate most is that she refuses to step in help when she says she's going to. Ah, the joy of it all. Heigh-ho, It is off to practice I go. finally. End.

We're taking the day off early today at work, and it is unusual, so unusual in fact, that it actually feels a bit, may I say the word, "sinful"? Odd choice, I know, but the truth of the matter is that I have inherited some sort of worker-bee (Beebe) mentality, which provokes me to try hard, work hard, sleep less, and balance way too many tasks to handle a healthy state some of the time. So -- to reward our Marketing team at work for Q4 earnings by giving us a half-day off seems unreal. Nonetheless, truth is stranger than fiction. And, so, I will gladly take a day off for an afternoon at the movies, but I will feel a little bit unwashed, a bit like the masses who are in the "unemployment" category - a little unproductive, but perhaps a bit happier.