My Luis Gonzalez bobble-head--2001 HR Derby Champ,
he hit game-winning single to beat the Yankees in the 2001 World Series, and was named this year's MLB All-Star ambassador.
Last Friday was so busy in my office that tomorrow (manic Monday) will continue its frantic pace while I attempt to catch up with all the email, correspondence, pleadings, service of process, electronic court filings, and all the other “simple” details that happen in a busy assistant’s day. In my earlier blog post a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how my bosses were on vacation. Well they took more vacation coinciding with the Fourth of July holiday…and you’d think it would lighten up a little. But no, it doesn’t work that way, especially when they have embraced technology at a non-stop pace even while they “relax” on the beach with their families. It seems to me that they could easily land a commercial with some high-tech manufacturing company showing how much fun they are having while they work remotely on a laptop, iPad, and/or iPhone from a beach chair with the ocean in the foreground. Isn’t this one of the biggest reasons the firm elected to have web-based data management software?
Well, I don’t want to belabor the antics of my wonderful bosses, but I would rather look forward to next week, even though it will undoubtedly be somewhat stressful, because the MLB All-Star Game is here in Phoenix, Arizona. Baseball has long been a favorite sport of mine and I grew up in Ohio with parents who adored the Cincinnati Reds--I was a lucky kid to be able to see the Big Red Machine in action and it gave me a solid foundation to maintain a lifelong admiration of the sport. After my husband and I were married in 1985, we moved to Cincinnati because he accepted a job with General Electric. Again, luck was with me and I took a position with a law firm working for a partner who had season tickets (right behind the Reds dugout). Technology had not exploded yet, but my boss was a workaholic and could never take the time to attend all the home games at Riverfront Stadium (just a few short blocks from the office). He knew I was passionate about the Reds and gave me the tickets quite often (I guess there are advantages in having bosses who are work crazy)!
Over the years I have continued to enjoy the game and now, because I live in Phoenix, I have once again cheered for another hometown National League team, the Arizona Diamondbacks. I haven’t attended as many games in the last few years due to increased commitments with family and my favorite not-for-profit professional associations, NALS, but I still like to think of myself as a baseball fan. It’s exciting to have the All-Star Game here in Phoenix and I’ve been reminiscing about the 2001 season when the Diamondbacks won the World Series. Luis Gonzalez, who hit the game winning single to beat the Yankees, has been named the All-Star ambassador this year and there so many exciting and fun things to do this week in Phoenix. My husband and I shared Diamondback season tickets in 2002 (again, with a boss who didn’t have time to attend all the home games), but we don’t have tickets for the All-Star game. My husband travels a lot for business and sometimes it’s just not easy to plan a trip to the ballpark these days, but we will watch it on the big screen TV in our family room while we most likely stay in touch with our friends through social media, play games on our iPhones, and possibly work on our laptops. Really? J
