I was at a big, fancy trade convention this week. I always say that’s a chance for men to get to feel what it’s like to be a woman in the world, if only one small part of it.
Invariably, everyone will eventually try to subtly glance down at the name badge on your chest, sometimes letting their gaze linger longer than they should…
The Wild clinch a playoff spot with a win of any kind tonight against the Flames.
Two wins this weekend (Calgary tonight, Vancouver tomorrow) would set their first round matchup* against Vegas.**
*unless both Wild wins are in the shootout AND the Blues win their remaining two games in regulation AND Minnesota loses their final game in regulation.
** OR the Kings (with 4 wins) could mathematically catch Vegas (with 1 or fewer total points in their remaining 3 games)
These are slightly less egregious.
The use of neon yellow is, in my eyes, far more hideous and objectionable than the blue pants. Green was right there.
I kind of like it with the blue and yellow, though if it was up to me, there probably wouldn't be any alternate uniforms. One home, one away. But I am trying to adapt to the modern times.
I like the blue and yellow, and I still love the hats.
I really don't like that 10,000 lakes decal on it though. Definitely the deal breaker on getting one of those.
I will agree on that point. Not a deal breaker for me, but would prefer it to just be absent.
Festa up to replace López and will start tonight.
Stupid Mariners color scheme tonight. Yuck.
A name badge with "Hungry" on it probably does attract longer stares...
So, we dabbled with door dash for a few weeks. This morning there was a notice on my merchant portal saying that they were in the process of helping us with an ownership change of our store. (psstt... no ownership coming at Pike). I just finished 5 and 1/2 hours of phone conversations and holding all in the effort of getting through to their fraud center. However, in order for my case to be "escalated" to the fraud department they wanted me to send them copies of my photo ID and a voided business check). Apparently, as easy as it is to break in and create an additional user on my account, it is waaaaaaaay easier than actually re-claiming the account I legally own. I am typically pretty patient with customer support people, as they have a tough job, but my last conversation ended with "cancel our account completely, I want all reference of Pike off of your website within the hour, and go f%&k yourself."
Heh, I had a much more pleasant customer service experience today. I got a trial of a premium version of a very large professional based web service and totally forgot to cancel. Realized it when I saw the $575 yearly subscription charge on my account. Spend about 15 minutes in a chat with an employee while still working on the side, and though they kept typing "your" instead of "you're", they kindly and quickly reversed the charge.
I suppose that anecdote won't help with your mood but thought I should give a shout out I guess.
I had a pretty good call with the mlb.tv support yesterday. Games weren't showing up on my app, and I had manually set my location. They had me change the location to NYC, and the games showed up again. This seems like pretty broken app behavior, but it was an acceptable workaround (especially since I figured out subsequently that it also works to have it automatically set the time zone correctly, but manually setting to the same time zone breaks the app again.)
Woof. That's...not good. You'd think that maybe they would work a little harder to keep businesses.