Thanksgiving – I bought XBOX 360

I hope you all had a great thanksgiving.  This was the first time i was away from my family, so it was kinda weird.  A colleague of mine was nice enough to invite us “orphans” to her place for thanksgiving meal with her family and pets.  Thank you Dawn 🙂

One thing i remember about my Thanksgiving 05 was that day before Thanksgiving Microsoft made me an offer.  A DAY before thanksgiving, nice timing.  I remember that day very well.  I was waiting for the call but have not heard anything for the past 3-4 days and didn’t expect to hear anything until after thanksgiving.  And at around 10 or 11 AM it happened.  Phone rang, recruiter introduced himself and this time he didn’t say “You did well, BUT”, rather he said, “We would like to make an offer to you.”  As soon as i heard that i remember saying this to myself:  “My life just changed.”  I remember him explaining all the benefits and stuff and i don’t remember anything he said, because i was shacking, couldn’t believe that Microsoft just made me an offer.  Last thing he said to me was “I bet you have something to be thankful for this thanksgiving” and i responded “You have no idea” 🙂  Ahhhh what a moment that was.  There are not that many moments in life that you can recall and point them out as being life changing moment.  So there you go, one year from day before thanksgiving, Microsoft made me an offer.

So what did i do celebrate this wonderful moment?  I bought XBOX 360 baby 🙂  Actually, i bought it because they had really good deal at the company store and i figured i will lot of time on my hand over the next 4 days doing nothing.  I am not much of a gamer, i think video games are just waste of time, i seriously do.  But i’m getting into it a little bit.  I have yet to try XBox Live, it seems pretty cool.

There you have it.  I hope you all had wonderful thanksgiving.

Cowboys are 7-4, who knew?  Tony Romo rocks 🙂

Tejas

Customer Service and New MSN Results

I got an email from Co-worker couple of days back saying that Southwest is offering $79 one way from Seattle to Dallas.  To confirm that deal, i called up Southwest’s 1800 number and to  my surprise after one ring a LIVE PERSON picked up the phone.  Now how often do you get to hear a live person when you call a 1800 number?  I was really impressed with it and with Southwest offering $79 deal from Seattle to Dallas.  Now that’s call customer service.  It would be great if a live person actually picks up the phone every single time you call a customer service number for any company.  Way to go Southwest.

According to posts on Webmasterworld, MSN has updated results on pretty recently.  I am pretty happy with what i see in the SERP, of course its no perfect yet, but i think it is closing in gap with relevancy.  That reminds me, have you checked out MsDewey.com?  It is such a brilliant concept.  However, is it useful for long term?  Meaning, you go there first time, you listen to that beautiful woman and it is entertaining.  Can you hear her talk on daily basis or will there be an option to just get the results directly without listening to what she has to say?  It is a nice concept though.

Besides that, work has been pretty crazy lately.  Work never seems to end and my work life balance doesn’t exist, so i have to find that balance, that is if i have time to find that 🙂  Still enjoying my work, lot of competition, lot of smart people, lot of things are constantly changing which makes it more fun.  One thing i discovered while working here is that, you gotta love change or at least better learn quickly to deal with it.  Things are not going to stay constant for long which is good and bad thing, depending whose perspective you want.

Tejas