Dance Me Out To The Ballgame

Last week Thursday Abby and the O'Hare girls had a dance out for Irish Day at the Akron Aeros game. I guess the crowd was sparse, but it was a neat venue any ways.

Back in KC Again

I have been working out of our Kansas City office again this week. One of the projects I am helping spearhead is developing our "Town Hall Live" internal communications channel. This is a pretty cool channel that will allow us to stream live and recorded town hall meetings over the Internet so that all of our employees can interact in these quarterly (and soon to be more frequent) company events. The image shown here is the login screen which presents the content in a sort of "virtual campus" type of environment. Our first big event will be in a couple weeks when after we release our Q1 2011 earnings. After that, we'll use this channel to help communicate other major events to our employees (like the re-launch of our Time-Critical services). Nice to be in the thick of things here in KC, but looking forward to get back home too.

Happy Easter!

The past few years, Karen, Abby and Andrew went to upstate New York for Easter weekend (while dad stayed home to work). This year, the party was at our house with Grandpa, Grandma, Kathy, Chris, Erica, Kelly, Emily, Jake and Chloe all coming to town. Yesterday we colored eggs and celebrated Grandma Barb's birthday. Today we went to church, opened Easter baskets and had a nice dinner. Happy Easter!

Water Pics from Panama

On our trip to Panama we also had a disposable water camera. Here are the pictures from that camera (took a couple weeks to get them developed).

Back Home from KC

Traveled back home today from Kansas City, Missouri. The YRC Time-Critical Partnership Meeting (see short video clip I took with my phone of the Sprint Center stage) seemed to go well and I got to meet a lot of new YRC folks (in person) that I talk to over the phone with frequently and via email (and I found a very cool, huge cigar lounge called "The Outlaw" near my hotel last night as well). Looks like a new assignment has me going back to Kansas City next week again.

YRC Meeting at the Sprint Center

This week I am in Kansas City for work meetings as part of the relaunch of our YRC Time-Critical service portfolio. We are calling this our YRC Partnership Meeting because some of our "final mile" partners have been invited and are sponsoring, i.e., paying the bill, for a portion of the meeting. The event is at the Sprint Center which is also home to the College Basketball Experience. The venue is actually pretty cool. I couldn't resist snapping a couple photos - one of the 2000 MSU Championship Banner with coach Izzo on it. Mostly light meet-and-greet fare tonight with sales, marketing and operations leaders across the company. More substance tomorrow.

Spring Hockey - Game 2

Yesterday Andrew started playing in a spring hockey league. He and a couple other boys from the Strongsville Mustangs peewee team were recruited to play for the Parma Flyers team. Andrew missed game 1 (there are 8 games total) because we were in Panama for Spring Break (they lost 2-4). After about a 2 month hiatus, Andrew had to get his skating legs back today (also sick). With only 9 skaters, the shifts were long, and Andrew was definitely winded. In the end, the Parma team lost 5-6 in a crazy game against the Kent Cyclones. Andrew didn't score any goals, but he came close on a couple. Game 3 is in a couple weeks (after Easter).