Today is a sad day for baseball fans, especially Angel Fans. Rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart died after a hit and run accident early this morning.

What does this have to do with a designated driver? Well, police suspect the mini-van that hit the car Adenhart was riding in of driving under the influence (DUI). Drunk driving kills! When will we decide to step up and do something about this? How many more people need to die before changes are made? 

Don’t drink and drive! Get a designated driver!!!!! 

Ok, so here it is…another rant! I hate disrespectful people. I often wonder how one becomes disrespectful. The whole nature vs nurture debate comes to mind. Is it genetic? Doubtful. Is it due to your upbringing? Quite possibly.

Why am I ranting about RESPECT? Well, because here lately I do not seem to be getting any. Here’s the scoop:

I play softball several nights a week. I started playing again last summer as it gave me something to do and I wanted to meet new people. At first, it was fun. I looked forward to every practice and every game. Then at the end of the first season, there was an issue with the team I played on…we will sum it up as a couple of guys on an ego trip. Next season, I started my own team and we lost every game. IT SUCKED! My team convinced me to go another season and quite honestly there has been nothing but problems. We have won games, that is not it. The problem seems to stem from one individual “cancer” who continually brings down the rest of the team. The “cancer” is starting to spread and the lack of respect is too. With f-bombs and other derogatory sayings being thrown out multiple times per game, I am counting down the days until this is over. 2 more weeks! WOOT WOOT

So what are your thoughts? Is it their age? The era in which they were born? Different generation of parents?

No matter, what it is…I have to stand up for myself. It is MY team. Someone has to be the leader! Wish me luck…

Ok, most of my rants and raves are completely random and have nothing to do with my job. Today is the day I will RAVE over our tech support staff. They are all fantastic but Jeff takes the cake.  I was having a problem with my email. It could not connect to the server. I had tried everything on my end to fix it, no dice. So I contacted Jeff via ICQ and at first even he was stumped but he stuck with me. After about 10 minutes of checking certain settings, etc. Jeff recommended that I look at my Norton Anti-Virus program, so I did. I quickly noticed a setting had somehow changed on my incoming email scan therefore disabling my incoming mail. Ta-Da! Jeff saved the day:)

THANKS JEFF, YOU ROCK!!!