1. Continue to keep my standards.
2. Understand that I will fail if I don’t continue to try.
3. Believe in myself and my ideas even though it seems no one else does.
Thursday’s Three: Goals as a Soldier for 2013
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Thursday’s Three: Goals as a Dad/Co-Parent for 2013
1. Have more one-on-one time with the kiddo.
2. Understand that I must make more with less.
3. Continue to share lessons and life moments as they are valuable teaching tools.
Thursday’s Three: Things I Learned in 2012 as a Blogger
1. Blogging isn’t easy!
2. Plan your work and work your plan is key to being successful.
3. Goals are essential!
Thursday’s Three: Things I Learned in 2012 in Relationships
1. Communication is the key to having a successful relationship.
2. Willingness to step out of your comfort zone is crucial to old and new relationships.
3. You must compromise for the relationship to work.
Thursday’s Three: Things I Learned in 2012 as a Soldier
1. Sometimes my standards are too high for the military.
2. Your vision for success isn’t always your leadership’s vision.
3. You must look through the BS to find the truth.
Thursday’s Three: Things I Learned in 2012 as a Dad/Co-Parent
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1. Teaching moments come when you least expect it.
2. You can never have enough one-on-one time with your child.
3. Sometimes it’s better to help than let your co-parent suffer.
Thursday’s Three: My Pet Peeves While Driving
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These are three of my pet peeves while driving! I’m not saying I’m the perfect driver, but some folks are ridiculous!
1. People who fail to use turn signals! – Are you saving them for a rainy day? Nope because you don’t use them then either!
2. People who don’t understand “Slower Traffic Keep Right”! – I have no problem with folks driving the speed limit! Just don’t do it in the fast lane!
3. Trucks that decide to pass other trucks on a steep incline! – I guess this one could go with number two, but it happens enough on its own that I’ll keep it at number three!
Thursday’s Three – Things for Which I’m Truly Thankful!
When I sat down to write the three things for which I am truly thankful, I couldn’t stop at three. So instead of blowing the Thursday’s Three out of the water, I decided to come up with three things in three different categories. Hope you enjoy the read!
PERSONAL
1. My son!
2. My friends and family!
3. My career!
BLOGGING
1. My readers!
2. Other dad bloggers!
3. The people who have given me an opportunity to guest blog on their site!
SPORTS
1. A Notre Dame season to be proud of!
2. An organization that, despite being in the middle of a lockout, does as much as they can for their fans and the community!
3. The Fantasy Football gods for my 37-17 record in my leagues!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Take care,
Stan
It’s The First of The MOnth!!
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That’s right folks! It is November 1st! And if you don’t know that means it’s the first of Movember! Time to start letting that ‘stache grow and raise some dough and awareness for men’s health to include prostate and testicular cancer! Take a look here at my post from last year for information about why this is my second year participating.
I missed my goal last year by quite a bit, but that will not deter me from going for the same goal again this year! I’m looking to raise $250 by the end of the month. Please do what you can and if you want to donate you can by clicking here. If you would like to join the Penalty Box Radio as either a Mo Bro or Mo Sis or just donate to the team, click here.
Later this month, I’ll be posting a guest post from a great friend about her story with losing her brother to testicular cancer at a very young age. Be on the lookout for that and for more updates about Movember!
Take care!
Thanks Comcast for Ruining My Labor Day!
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Labor Day started out much like a normal work day, as I forgot to turn off my work week alarm. Great start, huh? The day didn’t progress much better either, as I took out my checkbook to pay the first of the month bills. I wanted to make sure everything was paid prior to me going out of town on business early tomorrow morning.
I paid all my bills and then made it to the one bill I absolutely loathe the most. Comcast drives me insane to say the least. There is always something new added to their website that inconveniences their customers. This time was no different.
I’m going to open myself up to a bit of criticism here for a bit, but it’s an absolute must to explain the entire situation. I use auto fill on my computer. I know for security purposes, this isn’t a good way of doing business, but it’s the way I keep everything straight with passwords and PINs. When I logged into Comcast, I receive a mandatory update to my PIN, just to pay my bill.
Imagine my disgust when I realize my auto fill is working correctly and I send my update, unsuccessfully. This makes it clear that someone or something has changed my PIN. As I log into Comcast’s Web Chat to have someone aid me with this, I continue to get all my bills paid. I called Comcast and paid my bill over the phone. This was another mistake on my part. If you pay over the phone, you do not receive any confirmation of payment.
I spent the better part of the next two hours arguing with customer service about my PIN and trying to get some type of receipt to show that my payment was accepted. No one wanted to take it upon themselves to open their email client and send me an email that stated: “Comcast has received your payment of $117.25 and your account balance is zero.” That would be too easy to carry out.
I had even had correspondence with “Comcast Matt” after I decided to vent a little through Twitter.
@stanlawshow may I assist you?— Comcast Matt (@ComcastMattV) September 3, 2012
@stanlaws what kind of issue are you havin?— Comcast Matt (@ComcastMattV) September 3, 2012
@stanlaws you can dm what kind of issue you are having or email comcastcares_support@comcast.com— Comcast Matt (@ComcastMattV) September 3, 2012
This didn’t work! If you know anything about Twitter, you know that you can’t Direct Message (DM) someone unless they are following you. So I sent my email at 11:23 am on 03 September 2012 and still haven’t received a response.
After asking to escalate my problem several times, I finally received some help from a customer service supervisor. I once again asked for her to send me an email, but apparently a ticket has to be processed and sent to another department for anyone to send me an email. She processed a ticket and proceeded to tell me that I should be receiving an email and asked if she could help me with anything else.
This was a bigger slap in the face than anything else that I had dealt with for the previous two hours. The woman thought that I would be okay with knowing that an email was on its way. I know that at that point, I was about to come unglued! I wasn’t about to disconnect without an email in hand. That’s when she proceeded to tell me that I would receive an email in a couple of hours. She apparently didn’t like my answer when I told her that I could waste a couple of hours of her time, since Comcast had already wasted two of mine.
In about ten minutes, I had an email copy of the ticket processed that stated my payment was accepted and that my account balance was zero. Two easy, right?
Why do I have to threaten to waste someone’s “valuable” time to get them to quit wasting mine? What a frustrating two hours that I will never get back! I hope this isn’t a glimpse of how my week will play out!
Hope everyone is enjoying their holiday! Until next time, take care!
Stan