Last night’s hockey game against the Carolina Hurricanes ended with one goal by J P Dumont and tornado warnings for downtown Nashville. All of us fans were advised of the warnings with a little over 1 minute left on the game clock, but they decided to play on and finish the game. I’m SOOOO glad they finished because we won in regulation with one goal and got two points in the standings. If they had stopped the game, they were going to call it a tie and give each team a point. The standings are SOOO close that the one point could have cost us the playoffs. So, congrats to the Preds for the win.

On the other hand, the officials – whoever THEY are – would not let anyone leave the building because it was not safe. There were cops at every exit door blocking the way. At first they brought out the band that played during the two breaks and had them play a rock song, but then they cut the band off and announced that everyone needed to move toward the evacuation area by section 103 and move into the underground tunnel. My cellphone went dead, as it always does during emergencies. Way to go, AT&T – you losers. 

I stood by the TV monitor at a closed snack stand and watched the emergency broadcast with the weather maps. The snacks stand lost out on a lot of business by closing early. There were 14,000 hungry and thirsty fans kept captive in the arena for a half hour and nothing to spend money on.

 

Thankfully we were all safe, the tornadoes jumped over downtown and did no damage, and about 30 minutes after the game we were allowed to leave.

Just got off the phone with the cell phone company about our CEO’s broken phone. Evidently, when our Office Manager ordered the cell phones for all the executives last year, she bought insurance on only select phones for select people. Hmmm.

I’m the last one to get involved with office politics, but some of these decisions that were made are sure making my job harder. It took quite a while to go over the whole list with the cell phone rep to determine who has insurance, when each phone’s service contract expires, and how to terminate the service of some of our people being laid off. I’m sure that I can figure out a way to consolidate some of this and negotiate our way into some significant cost savings.

Come to find out on the CEO’s phone, he does have insurance, but we have to pay a $50 deductible and that gets him a replacement phone that is refurbished, and it will take up to 5 business days to receive it. But from shopping the web, I can get him a brand new, better phone for free with a new contract.

Love a challenge!

In a totally different direction but still about phones, now I get to look into the cell phones for our company executives. Seems the CEO dropped his cell phone over the weekend and the liquid display is cracked. The phone works as far as making calls, but the dislay doesn’t work, so he needs that replaced. But now he is interested in upgrading to a PDA or something better than the Nokia that he’s been using.

Back to the net for cell phone research . . .

If you know me, you know I was kidding about turning the cell phone off. The only time I turn off the cell phone is when I’m on an airplane and I HAVE to. LOL But I WILL be screening any calls that come in during the Super Bowl. I can’t imagine ANY of my friends wanting to chat during the game. They should all be watching the game.

Heard off the wire awhile ago that AT&T and Napster signed a deal together and under the agreement, AT&T customers who sign a two-year contract and obtain a Napster-capable phone would gain free access to 3 million songs on Napster. AT&T customers who sign up for the Napster plan would effectively get the equivalent of $180 in services for free during their first year. In my opinon this was a smart move by telecommunications GIANT in more ways than one. Should be interestin gto see who they partner up with to bring movies to thier phones.