I spent most of today making more calls about Super Bowl parties and sponsorship options. Calling existing customers is great for me it is calling the non-customers and pushing our service that I don’t like. One week left which is hard to believe. Not much else to report today. Tomorrow is the NASN board meeting in our office so that should be interesting.
Monthly Archive for January, 2004
Long day at work today. I have been making calls all day so not much to report. Looking forward to head home for the evening. One more week of work and then I get to see my friend Sulekha next Tuesday night and then it is back to the US of A on Thursday. It’s been fun but a lot of work.
Today was one that made me live up to my name as the tech guy. This morning BT Openworld was supposed to upgrade our internet service and reprogram the router. Well during the automatic upgrade, it crapped out and we were left with out internet until 16.00 today. I had to constantly call and pester them to get it done today otherwise, they were quoting that it would be done in the next 48 hours. Not acceptable if you ask me. I took the down time as a chance to switch over the computers and printers to the new addresses so they were ready when we came back online. We all shared the fax line in the meantime for dial access until then.
While I wasn’t on the phone with BT Openworld, I worked on more data entry of contest entries. The network issues are what really consumed my day though. Tomorrow should be quieter I hope.
Well, a little less than a fortnight left here in London which is both suprising and encouraging at the same time. I have been very busy with my internship but the tasks are getting repetative and what not. This weekend I did what I wanted and just relaxed. I saw some of my Eckerd College friends after work on Friday and even had a little longer stay there than I wanted due to some drunk guy trying to get in to the house. Two quick calls to 999 solved the issue and I was finally able to head home. Yesterday I just cruised around on my own by Picadilly Circus, the British Museum and the Eckerd College house before calling it a night. Today I slept in again and have just been reading and hanging out around home. It’s nice not to have anything that holds you down and that you can just relax when you want to. I have work in the morning again and this week will be more calling and finalizing things for the Super Bowl I’m sure. That’s all for now foks!
Friday continues to be a busy day for me here at NASN. I worked more on the Super Bowl XXXVIII party plans by calling down the list of sports bars and pubs that we have. The goal is to find out which ones are offering a party and arrange to get some of our information at the parties by asking them to display flyers or allow us to offer prizes for a drawing. Got a hold of a few but most were either leave a message or call them back next week. This has been the bulk of my work today. I also joined Graham in attempting to fix the television reception in the conference room but a new cable might be the best bet.
Also, today should be the last day of the internet address shortage. BT should be here early Monday to set us up with more addresses to use. We shall see if such a thing happens judging from the delays they have left NASN in the past. Now, it’s the weekend and I’m out of the office soon. Peace.
Last nights commute was not much better than the morning. There was a motor bike crash just north of Peter and Pam’s house and all bus routes and traffic for that matter was diverted the complete other way. I finally got to Excel (across the docks from Peter and Pam’s) and walked the rest of the way in rain and wind. This was just nasty and I was happy to get inside and warmed up. Today I spent most of my internship making phone calls to various pubs/sports bars/etc around London seeing if they were offering any Super Bowl XXX VIII parties. The reasoning being is so we can coordinator a NFL prize pack drawing at the venues and promote the channel. After work, I am heading to the Eckerd College Study Centre to visit with some friends and get some dinner. That’s really about it for today.
