air force one and g-dubya visit slakis- as you may or may not know, G-Dub was in town to speak at the VFW convention at the salt palace.. he flew in at around 10:35 or so, and left around 12:55.. i had to work, so i was only able to leave on my lunch break and take pictures when he got here..
i didn't put a link at the main page so everyone would read the blog.. i nor support or oppose bush. somebody has to do his job and i can't say i would rather have John Kerry be doing it.. someone real should run for president..
here is a link to the picture gallery.. i will summarize a few of the photos here.. click photos for bigger pictures..
he was supposed to get in at about 10:45... i left work around 10:35 and found out he had arrived 10 minutes early.. here's the plane taxiing to parking at the air national guard base of the airport.
the tail of air force one can be seen here, just behind the fence.. i couldn't really get a good picture of it..
a motorcade of slc police motorcycles heads out from the airport to block traffic, in front of the prez's limos.. i am not sure exactly which route they took, but there sure were a lot of cars.. the police is seen here telling a taxi cab next to me to stop pulling closer..
the prez's limos head out on the journey to the salt palace, about 10 seconds behind all the motorcycles, proceeded and followed by quite a few suburbans and other official looking vehicles..
protestors at the salt palace, i wish i didn't have to go to work or i could have had more pictures.. work sucks..
a police detective watches me drive by as another police officer practices standing on one foot.
some new slakisdotcom movies, for your viewing pleasure- here are two movies for everyone to see. you must watch them with sound, and download them completely before you start watching them. to download, right click and choose save link or target as..
they are currently in
quicktime format. if you don't wish to install quicktime, you may download
quicktime alternate, a similar program that is not quicktime, but works. plays them in a windows media player type program.
Movie #1 -
7th Inning Stretch Take Me Out To The Ballgame Video Clip - From the Tigers @ A's game, which the A's won 8-4. During the 7th inning stretch, video clip of take me out to the ballgame sung by the whole crowd.
Movie #2 -
Darth Victor with a message from work.
enjoy.
oh yeah, do any qwest people read this? comment if you do. i honked FOR Qwest people on strike as i drove past.
today's update- first things first..
fladners messaged me again today
he says hi to everyone who used to work with him.. just kidding fladners, he really didn't.. people who blocked you don't want to talk to you anymore, like dave. sorry, not my problem..
took the camera- today to go to work. it was merri's last day, she's leaving to another call center. she had a temp badge and they spelled her name wrong, as merri.. the pictures from today can be found
at this link, in the gallery. there was a trivia question on the combined age of the rolling stones, i researched and got the answer right at 245. i was supposed to win a prize, but we forgot about it and i never got it. oh well.
jazz town hall meeting- i went to the delta center last night with my dad for a Jazz Town Hall Meeting, for season ticket holders.. i didn't take any pictures, but here's a copy of the review i posted to my favorite jazz message board,
Jazzhoops.net.
Begin My Review-i went to the Town Hall Meeting at the Delta Center tonight, mainly because I wanted to hear the teams thoughts on getting Tag back.. they said in the invites it would be on the court, but in fact it was in the VIP room.. they did however have all you can eat hot dogs..
KOC and Dennis Haslem were the only two people there who talked.. the first started off talking about the Ostertag trade.. we sent the 3 players to Memphis, they dealt them from there.. he wasn't concerned about letting the 3 players go who he did, Snyder hadn't turned out into what they thought he would (though it was only one year) and he thought with miles, it would have been hard for them to keep snyder in front of miles..
he also broke the trade down like this.. we traded 7 surgeries away (borch and lopez) for 1 good kidney.. the crowd laughed, i thought that was pretty funny..
on players returning to camp in shape - he mentioned that some players thought that training camp was the place to get in shape.. it's pretty much up to the players to stay in shape, but the jazz provide assistance wherever they can (trainer, nutritionist, etc.).. he says the jazz trainer will occaisionally fly to places where players are in the offseason to see how they are doing, and sometimes they'll fly a few in to see where they stand and where they need to be.. but, it all boils down to the player...
about talking about Deron Williams.. he said he's a smart kid.. when he came to the workout session, he showed up in a suit and tie.. it was basically a job interview, and he said that D-Will knew what he was doing.. during the first part of the review, D-Will was watching the games and eventually made his way over to where Sloan was sitting, talking to him for over a half hour, just so they could get familiar with each other.
he sounded like he wasn't too sure about whaley.. he said they liked him in the review, but there were some things the jazz told him he had to do in order to make the team.. they say he wants to make it so they feel like he'll do what he has to do to be in shape by the time camp starts..
about harprings surgery - says the doctor saw some things that should have been cleaned up before in previous surgery's? i wasn't too sure on this, but i hear he should be ready come november..
they said a few years ago when Stockton and Malone left, the team put down a plan for the next for years.. they say with their big signings (Memo, AK, Boozer) they could build a team around this.. unfortunately, luck didn't see it that way and 251 games were missed to injury last season.. he hopes we can build around this and keep improving, as we have the players locked in for a few years to come..
about Raja getting away, someone asked KOC how the jazz didn't do what they had to do to keep him.. KOC basically said about 10 minutes after they could, a deal was reached with Raja and Phoenix.. he said he called Raja's agent to try to make an offer to do what they had to, but never heard from Raja and found out it was then too late. Raja confirmed in his press conference that he just wanted to play for Phoenix, to play with Nash..
about having Ostertag.. he said we only signed him for 1 year.. we have other centers and he said that Big O just is a luxury.. if he can contribute, that's good and everything is just a benefit.. he also mentioned that Ostertag is in the bottom half of pay scales for backup centers, which is very funny..
EDIT: i'll add more as I can put more back into my brain. hope this clears some up for a few people.. feel free to comment as you wish.
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End Review
california trip pictures are now up and linked on the left side, they can also be found
at this link. the include about 4 pages of pictures from my flight stopping in Vegas, the A's vs Tigers game on Friday night, and the return home. also, more random pictures from around california.
raiders vs cowboys- i'll be going to this game on October 2nd, in Oakland. this is 2 days after my birthday. my uncle has clients who have season tickets, they are giving him their 4 tickets. i'll be flying out there to help him with his computer around that time, so i'll also be going to the game too. sweet, i
can't wait for October 2nd. that's all for now.
