Once I get my expense reimbursement this week I need to go by the office supply place. I have three stores and the last District Manager was so damn cheap there are no tape dispensers on the office desks, cheap staplers, two of the stores are using $1 calculators rather than decent desktops, and no coin sorter or change rollers whatsoever. The change rollers and calculators have to be the worse though. There's nothing more exciting than having to count out $32.67 in loose change.
Speaking of the dinner shows that I want to go to eventually, there is another that looks even better than the pirates one. Medieval Times Dinner Show is in Kissimmee, Florida and it looks to be every bit as spectacular as the other one. MapleLeafTickets has discount tickets to this show as well and since tax is included in the advance ticket purchases it's a darn good deal.
* photo courtesy of medievaltimes.com
You get to feast in a castle while Knights on horseback joust to the death. I love the Renaissance festival when it comes to Georgia, and this is a permanent place that you can get to year round and visit. Very nice. The victorious knight becomes the King's champion gets to select his Queen of Love and Beauty from among the castle's fair maidens.
* Photo courtesy of medievaltimes.com
Medieval Times has several locations around the country so be sure that you know when you are buying discount tickets from MapleLeafTickets.com that you are getting tickets for the Kissimmee Medieval Times dinner show.
All of the pageantry that you would expect from a show of this caliber is there. Beautiful dresses on supple maidens, proud knights, and strong horses all combine to entertain you to the most. As I pointed out earlier, the knights start out jousting on horseback which eventually evolves into close combat on the ground with authentic period weaponry.
...in Orlando is one of those things that I found interesting but was not able to attend when we went to Orlando two years ago. Since it was us with all three kids I figured that it would be much too expensive and the youngest would not have enjoyed it quite as much as the rest of us.
Basically the world's largest and most interactive Pirate dinner show's premise is that everyone has been invited to the King's Festival and everyone is the Princess Anita's royal guests. Princess Anita is abducted by the dastardly Pirate Sebastian the Black and the adventure is in getting her back.
You eat on a model of a fully rigged pirate's galleon and there is plenty of flying and acrobatics up in the rigging, plenty of swashbuckling swordplay and dueling. There are also six other seating "ships" surrounding the main one in the "lagoon" and each one has their own pirate mascot to cheer on. You could also have the chance to interact in the adventure as well. You do have to make reservations for the Pirates dinner show as it's not something to just show up and plan to get in, even in the off-season months.
MapleLeafTickets has discount tickets for the show at something around 45% off normal gate price. That price also includes all the sales tax as well. Some of the other ticket places that I checked out don't include the tax so you may think you are getting a great deal until you get to checkout. You just have to make sure and let them know that you have pre-paid passes when you are making the reservations.
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I was just thinking the other day about how good the Queensryche concert was last year when the wife and I took the Boy. We had a blast. That is the last concert I have been to and I am itching to get some concert tickets again and go see some live music even if it is a small show in a bar. There's nothing to compare to a band that puts on a great show. You can tell almost immediately if they are a concert band, or if they are just putting out albums and touring to support their last bit of sales.
I got an email about the site a little while ago and have been checking the site out for the last little while. Although I don't use a Mac currently I have several friends that do and my brother does also. This may or may not be of interest to them.
Basically Mac Poker Online is a news site/blog that provides information about online casino games for Macintosh users. There are links to several available sites, saving you a bit of time searching for a site that you can use. Not even remotely poker related, I did find a cartoon of Bill Gates Vs. Steve Jobs that I haven't seen before that made me laugh for a few minutes.
There are several different areas of the site, including one that goes into the rules of Poker. While I have played extensively, this is a must read for folks that haven't but are interested in playing whether on or offline. Some of the links that I looked at were Pacific Poker which is currently a featured room, as well as Poker Stars.
Overall the site was pretty cool. The design is green, reminiscent of a card table and there aren't an over-abundance of advertisements which is always nice. There is quite a bit of "industry" related news, and while I am not big into card playing, they are well written and I found myself reading through them pretty thoroughly.
There is also an option to get the newsletter emailed to you as well, which is always a nice feature. Just make sure to list the domain on your non-spam list in your email client or it might get caught there.
One thing that I was not aware of (I told you I didn't do a lot of online gambling) is that you cannot use your paypal account to play with, and most sites actually ban US players because of our laws. There is at least one site over there that does though, so if I were to ever start playing at least I know now where to get my information.
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I had almost forgotten about this. Once I take that district promotion in a couple of weeks I need to go get some business cards printed up. Since I will have three stores it's not a simple matter of telling people thy can get in touch with me at my store, I need to be able to give them my email address and cell phone number. There are other ways to get the info to them, particularly if they use an electronic gadget, but not everyone does, and one of the simplest oldest ways is to make sure that I carry a few cards around with me just in case, particularly since a big portion of my job is going to also be recruiting new managers.
...golf. It isn't really as important the last couple of years as it used to be, but all of the upper management in my company plays golf. It's just one of those things that I never found the time for. I wouldn't know the difference between golf clubs and cavemen clubs though. Several of the other managers I work with play and I have had the offer once or twice. If I eventually decide that I want to start working the promotion chain I may just need to learn.
I see dating site ads all over the internet. Most of them are at least initially disguised as being 'free' until you get to the part where you have to enter your credit card information. All I can say is that I am glad I don't have to worry about that stuff anymore. I suppose that online dating is easier than the bar scene though. At least you have the opportunity to screen out potential creeps and stalkers and get to know someone a tiny bit before meeting them. Obviously everything that they say could be a lie, but generally you do get a sense of the person's personality.
JustSayHi.com is a truly free site for Online Dating. They offer the same features as all of the pay sites and is just as good. The sign up process is pretty easy and simple. A couple of quick pages about who you are and describing yourself. In order to keep the service free, they do require that you look at several pages of ads before you get into the service itself. I had to look at three pages of ads to get in.
It seems to be a pretty good site if you are looking for a date. There are plenty of listings as well. One thing that pleased me was that when I went to delete my account, it was right there in the settings tab, it asked me why and deleted it. Overall I was very pleased.
