Ok I’m fed up now! There once was a time and a place for unions but McCormick Place just isn’t it. The unions have forced major conventions to leave town and will end up hurting an industry that is already down due to the economy. First it was the Hardware Show, then the Consumer Electronics Show, now the Plastics Show and their 90,000 people every other year for a week! Now even Oprah is leaving Chicago! This is going to cost a lot of jobs in Chicago and the government, I don’t think is going to bail us out! I’m referring to the Hospitality industry of which I’ve been a part of for over 30 some odd years! This is going to go bad, as too many people have been making too much money from McCormick Place for years. You think they are going to let go? The politicians that get alot of support (in more ways than just a vote) from the unions aren’t going to change either. No were probably going to have to hit rock bottom. You know what that means… we will lose more conventions more hotels will go belly up. You might even see boarded up buildings (former hotels) anytime now. Its time to wake up Mayor Daley and a few people need to slapped up side of their head and hard.
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My Life My Opinion about Finding Mr Right
An acquaintance of mine (not sure if were friends yet as we’ve only met about 3-4 times) has her own blog. She has a great sense of humor and she really makes me laugh. I love her writing style. She’s a lot younger and she’s not married and much of her blogging is about finding “Mr Right” and the experiences she has gone through in that search. As a father I wish more than anything that I could help her in some way. I know she’s alone and being the young vibrant person she is, she wants a partner. We all want to be wanted by someone. We all want to have someone to share our thoughts and feelings with. We all want someone to make us laugh. She’s gone on many dates, done the bar scene, I’m sure her friends have tried to “Hook” her up on many occasions. Nothings clicked yet for her and she’s changing her writing to reflect a more upbeat positive self. I really hate to see her make this change.
What I enjoy about her is that witty sarcastic view of hers. She makes you laugh by bringing out the obvious. I’m sure their is someone out there that will also appreciate that side of her.
I’m not sure anyone has told her but, stop trying to find him. I think he has to find you! Live your life and let your life come to you. Stop trying to make it (force it) into happening. The right person is out there and sometimes it takes a little longer. I was with the wrong person in the beginning. Don’t make that same mistake, don’t settle because someone is there and “may” fit the bill. Don’t change to fit other’s idea of what you should be! Be Yourself! Don’t forget sometimes a prince is a frog first and its the princess that turns him into a prince!
My Life At the Emergeny Room
Well it happened again in my life. In fact I think I’m becoming a regular going to the emergency room at our local hospital. First off you must know one thing, if you decide your going to visit the emergency room. You can count on at a minimum 4 hours if your lucky. On average, I’ve got to bet its more like 6.5 hours of your life.
Grandma (my mother-in-law) was sick so you know who “The Chosen One” (me) got to accompany her on this exciting experience. One new tip for those of you thinking of going down this path. Go on a weekday not a weekend! Everyone is off from work and doing stupid things on the weekend and their doctors aren’t available so they come in mass to compete with you for the privilage of who gets to go in first. I kept telling Grandma (who actually had Bronchitis but wasn’t coughing at all now that we were there) to pretend like she was having problems breathing but no, she sat there very quiet and eventually dozing off to sleep a little. Two hours later we both wake up to someone calling her name. So we get to leave the germ infested waiting area and get to go to room number 4. Of course now its time to punish me more… The last time I was here with Grandma we were in the same room number 4 and they had installed tv’s for your enjoyment! It greatly helped to pass the time away when we were here last time. Of course this time the tv didn’t work and I was having to face my mother-in-law for more endless hours of fun. In the middle of the “pit” (nurses station) they have a 42″ screen tv displaying all the patients like a spread sheet. I found my mother-in-law on line four and at some point the column for “length of stay” turns red. Two other people had red backgrounds also but they were at 6 hours or more. We had at some point passed 4 hours and it went red. At least you knew they were noticing you because as your hours increased they seem to pay more attention to you as if they were on some sort of time limit. I was afraid to see what happened once you got to 7 hours. So the hospital is trying to make an effort to improve your experience when you visit. Everyone seemed overly friendly compared to previous visits. Then I noticed they had signs all over about customer service and to please fill out their survey. The nurses kept repeating their names so we would remember them. Then when checking out, the papers had their names typed out so we could spell them correctly. You know I’m in the hotel business and when ever the guests have a bad experience like the tv not working they complain they want a free room for the night. I wonder how far I could carry this?
My Life My Opinion My Anti – Social Behavior
My friend Hillary has inspired me with her blog http://baddatesandgooddogs.blogspot.com/
A hot summer event with a crowd is just not my cup of tea either. In fact anywhere people gather you probably won’t find me. Lately I’ve noticed that crowds do bring out the worst in people. The hot sun doesn’t help either. This has been one of the best summers of my life because its been so cool. Someone must have turned off the global warming switch! They might want to check it.
I’m not a drinker either. So get a bunch of guys together with all the beer they can drink is an accident waiting to happen. I think people in general have lost their social skills. Kids growing up today are so into their “video games” they grew up in their little world on their computers so they didn’t socialize much, hence the lack of social skills. We as adults, to some degree, let this happen as our careers became more important than our families. Our tv’s, computers, playstation, and other games became our babysitters.
Could you or your family go without being “connected” for a day? How about being dis-connected for two days or even a week? When we grew up we were told “go out and play.” That meant we left the house and had to figure a way to entertain ourselves. That also meant we had to learn how to interact with other kids and people.
Maybe its happening to adults too. I’ve grown attached to my computer and I’m on it most of the day and a good part of the night. I don’t want to be around people as much so maybe I am becoming anti social. Its easier to become a hermit or a Ted Kaczynski. Maybe we do need tighter controls on society. If a kid thinks its ok to sit facing a computer all day shooting people then how easy is it to corelate that in your mind to real life after days of mindless killing onscreen.
Ok I’ve gone to the extreme here but we have to ask what kind of society is developing here? In Japan I hear its common place for women to be groped on commuter trains and no one does anything. What is our world shaping into? Maybe we don’t have to worry about it, since the Myan’s say things are ending in 2012 anyway.
I Have A Solution
A while back I remember seeing on ABC’s 20/20 or CBS’s 60 minutes a new weapon that the military has developed. It was a truck with a large board, like a 4x 8 on top of it. Of course, it was painted Army Green. This weapon was basically as I understand it, a giant microwave. They aim it at people, let’s say a couple of hundred yards away, and when they push the start button, just like your home microwave it cooks the water molecules within your body. Now on this demonstration, they had to align the truck facing the “volunteers” to heat them up. After a few seconds, the “volunteers would turn and run away to get out of the sightline of the microwave. Their bodies would heat up and they couldn’t stand it any longer. This isn’t a killing machine, its just be a way to disperse people.
The problem with this is to try and get our enemies to stand still long enough to be zapped! I think there’s some flawed thinking here on the use of this equipment? Since when do our enemies standstill? In Afganistan there hiding behind rocks and in caves etc.
I’m a marketing guy and I don’t think they had a good focus group for the planning of this product! They obviously missed the boat. To me its pretty obvious what they should do to make this a more effective product. In fact, I can guarantee a return on their initial investment pretty quickly.
They need to make it smaller. A handheld device would be great but even two feet by eighteen inches high would be just about right. You see I want to mount it on my car. I’m tired of the bastard tailgaters on the highway. I’m already going 65 miles an hour and I’m in the left lane I have nowhere to go as I’m blocked on the right lane and there’s a guy in front of me but this guy behind me thinks I can get out of his way! I just want to zap him to tell him to back off. I don’t want to kill him ( well maybe?) I just want a cop to see him, I just want to prevent an accident! Just one little zap, instead of a little warning he gets a little “WARMING.” I can see the commercial now with Billy Mays the commercial pitchman showing how it works! We will sell millions of them. “Hi, Billy Mays Here… Tired of People on your Ass? Well, have we got the product for you.” I’m hung up on one part though when he says “But wait there’s more…” What could we add? If you think of it let me know. We could even get them installed at the factory of the “Big 3.” (If they are the Big 3 anymore?) You know this could be useful in many situations just think about it. I think I’m going to give Obama a call I think I have a solution to some of his budget concerns. I wonder what other products they came up with that with a little twist would be perfect for mass production.