Starting the new job today.\u00a0 Feeling excited because there is a lot more marketing\/creativity than in past jobs.\u00a0 I’m going to get to do neat stuff like work with Photoshop and Illustrator and write copy, which will be fun.\u00a0 I’ll have my own office for the first time in more than five years, which is great because I hate cubicles.<\/p>\n
For those of you who are unemployed or employed fewer hours than you’d like, here’s a great post by Seth Godin in how to invest the extra time in yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n On to the news this morning:\u00a0 If you missed out on filling out an NCAA bracket, or if your bracket has been blown to bits by upsets in the first two rounds, you have a chance at a do-over.\u00a0 The Flying Saucer is doing a new bracket challenge starting today, involving the Sweet 16 teams only.<\/p>\n According to this CA article<\/a>, the #2 seed Memphis Tigers<\/a> take on the #3 seed Missouri Tigers<\/a> in Glendale, AZ at 8:37 PM CDT Thursday.\u00a0 Good, a night game – that means I’ll be able to catch it on TV.\u00a0 Should be a good matchup.\u00a0 The Mizzou coach was an assistant coach under Nolan Richardson at Arkansas, and has adapted the “40 minutes of hell” style of play that won Arkansas a national championship in 1994.<\/p>\n Grizzlies news:\u00a0 The NBA is doing a bracket match-off for dance teams.\u00a0 All-Access members can go here to vote for the Grizz Girls vs. the Denver Nuggets dance team<\/a>.<\/p>\n Look for info here<\/a> on how the Grizzlies are giving back to the community.\u00a0 On April 3 they’ll be educating fans on going green, and later in the month they have the largest silent auction in team history, and a Fan Appreciation Night.<\/p>\n Off to work.\u00a0 I guess this means my posts will be returning to the early morning\/lunch post times as they did when I had my last job.\u00a0 Since I’m working by the airport I won’t be able to take my “what’s the Fire Sale” walks on weekdays anymore, but if someone wants to text the Fire Sales to me, I’ll update them on the blog.<\/p>\n Tonight:\u00a0 Dollar Depression-era cocktails at Silly Goose from the time I get home until 7, then Pint Nite at the Saucer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starting the new job today.\u00a0 Feeling excited because there is a lot more marketing\/creativity than in past jobs.\u00a0 I’m going to get to do neat stuff like work with Photoshop and Illustrator and write copy, which will be fun.\u00a0 I’ll have my own office for the first time in more than five years, which is … Continue reading “Mon update: New job, basketball stuff”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}