February 2009
Looking Back... February 2009
17 February 2009 - 2:16pm
"P" is for "placement"
If you can find it in your heart, please pause for a moment and send positive karma toward this group:
These happy folks are the operations directors and some of the managers, too. It's the annual "placement meeting."
With a record number of job seekers this year, it's a pretty lengthy session.
Those of us not in the meeting are taking entirely too much pleasure in our freedom today. I'm a little ashamed to admit I've text-messaged Jason several times asking how it's going and informing him about the lovely weather today.
The latest response: "We're on J." Now, I don't want to read anything into this, but since it was not followed by a little happy-face emoticon thingy, I'm guessing the festiveness of the get-together has faded.
Poor Eric snapped this photo on his iPhone and emailed it to me.
I think if we studied the photo from above we'd realize all the Mountain Dew bottles are arranged in a giant "SOS."
16 February 2009 - 9:25am
Sharing the love
One of Matt's departments, as GM, is entertainment. So he goes to the auditions. He comes back from these all Hollywood, every third word is "lovin'."
He's lovin' this one's voice and lovin' that one's personality. He's lovin' how the cast is pulling together.
It's sickening.
What are you, some kind of McDonald's commercial?
Matt just laughs and tells me to "get with it, dude."
This from the guy who still pines for Cindy Brady.
Right.
So when I saw a media lead that a reporter in Canada was looking for quotes from folks who love their jobs, Matt was top of mind. Totally.
I heard back from the reporter this morning. She received hundreds and hundreds of responses...and Matt's made the cut.
Needless to say, he's lovin' the attention (and yes, they saved the best 'til last).
Okay, so let's make this a two-fer. Bryan over at Amusement Park World recently posted this glowing review of Holiday World & Splashin' Safari.
15 February 2009 - 7:18pm
Blast from the past
Thought you'd get a charge out of this old Frightful Falls logo:
Rick says the best he can remember (it was 25 years ago, after all) this graphic was hand-painted on the original Frightful Falls billboard.
13 February 2009 - 5:10pm
An inci-dental post
The irony of a business blogger talking about Valentine's Day (aka Eat Chocolate Until Your Teeth Fall Out Day), going to the dentist and getting a "word of mouth" recommendation tickles me no end.
You know the drill: click here. We found the read to be quite ful-filling.
12 February 2009 - 7:13pm
Missing Linc
Our hometown (almost) boy left the county in 1830 and went on to greatness. And today's the bicentennial of his birth. (Abraham Lincoln, not Charles Darwin.)
In honor of this, the folks over at Lincoln Amphitheatre are holding a contest on YouTube. You can try to win tickets to their new show, LINCOLN, and also to Holiday World.
All you have to do is post a video of you or a friend reciting the Gettysburg Address.
There are a few videos posted so far; there's a lot of creativity out there, though, so let's fill the page. Maybe even a future star of LINCOLN will appear.
Here's the link to the contest rules.
In honor of the day, here's our friend Andy doing his best impersonation.
Andy knows, though, that he can't win ... being an employee of Holiday World and all. He just likes wearing the hat and beard.
Honest.
